NRA Board of Directors Election Ballots Are Out. How Will You Vote?

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Now that the ballots have been sent out for voting for the next batch of the National Rifle Association Directors, has anyone received information on how any of the current members of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors voted in the past year? Does anyone have some inside information they wish to share on how these people voted? Maybe a member of the Board who wishes to afford the rank and file members of the NRA an honest choice for us to elect Directors more akin to what we pay our dues for? Maybe some of the minutes of meetings held in determining the NRA's stance on HR 2640 and the recorded votes? We expect no less from our congressmen and I do believe we deserve to know these things of our elected board directors. WE pay the dues. It is OUR rights being eroded.

We need to elect members to the Board who will stand unequivocally on our rights and not bend in a compromise, who will state our case and leave it up to Congress to make the compromises - if any! We certainly do not need to support anyone in Congress who is willing to compromise our rights away, and we certainly do not need to support directors on the NRA Board of Directors willing to do the same!

Surely there is a least one member of the Board who opposed HR 2640 who is reading this and wishes to remain on the Board. If I know who voted not to support HR 2640, I'll vote to keep them on the board. If I have no knowledge of how the current members of the Board voted, I'll not vote for anyone wishing to remain on the board. I cannot afford to have one more iota of my rights infringed or abridged and will not leave it up to a toss of the dice.

I encourage all who see this as an opportunity to bend the NRA more toward securing our Right to Keep and Bear Arms rather than compromise the right(s) away, to pressure members of the Board to cough up the names of those who supported HR 2640 or refuse to vote for anyone currently on the board.

Surely there is someone on the Board with a conscience and the guts to stand up and fight for our rights, and do right by we the members of the NRA. Give us an honest and informed choice beyond the glowing write-ups such as I received in America's 1st Freedom.

As controversial as HR 2640 turned out to be, we, the rank and file voting members of the NRA, deserve(and I demand) to know the facts, and the best way for us to voice our opinions is with our votes.

There must be at least one person on the board with the courage. There must be.

Woody

 

[canopy2k]

I popped in here looking for the same info. Anyone know who I should/should not be casting a vote for? And why?

c2k

PS: Found out my mailman is a gun guy! I happened to be outside when he delivered the mail today. The NRA mag was right on top, with a cover related to Heller. He commented "Sure am going to be glad when the SC decides on our side for once." Turned into a nice little discussion. Might have made a new shooting buddy!

 

[billwiese]

Please ignore Constitution Cowboy's GOA-inspired rant on HR2640.

HR2640 got us ability to restore rights, nothing changed on determination of a disability, etc. - and bought us helluva good PR shield so congressmen or Senators can say they were "doing something about guns" - so they don't have to vote for HR1022 etc. down the line.



Bill Wiese
San Jose CA

 

[Car Knocker]

Why, my vote will go to those who supported HR 2640, of course!

 

[wideym]

When I was a yearly member I never recieved a ballot for anything. I recently joined as a Life Member, will I get a ballot?

Do only life members get a vote or do all members get a vote? Like I said I never recieved a ballot at anytime while a yearly member.

 

[Buck Nekkid]

Here in Vegas we're only voting for Don Turner. By voting for one guy you maximize your vote. Don is one outstanding 2nd Amendment supporter and the director of what will be the largest public shooting range in America.

 

[bsf]

When I was a yearly member I never recieved a ballot for anything. I recently joined as a Life Member, will I get a ballot?

Do only life members get a vote or do all members get a vote? Like I said I never recieved a ballot at anytime while a yearly member.

Life members and annual members of 5 consecutive years, I believe.

 

[Robert Hairless]

billwiese:

Please ignore Constitution Cowboy's GOA-inspired rant on HR2640.

HR2640 got us ability to restore rights, nothing changed on determination of a disability, etc. - and bought us helluva good PR shield so congressmen or Senators can say they were "doing something about guns" - so they don't have to vote for HR1022 etc. down the line.

Bill Wiese
San Jose CA

Now Bill, let me level with you. If you're going to continue to post sane, rational messages of that kind, you can just forget about getting an invitation to this year's Screwball Convention. Surely you can remember to say "Veterans Disarmament Act" every once in a while. It's not all that hard.

Car Knocker:

Why, my vote will go to those who supported HR 2640, of course!

You're going to be sorry you missed the dinner at this year's convention. The main course hasn't been announced yet but it might be GOA Steak: doesn't look anything like the real thing, smells funny, and thoroughly indigestible but mighty tough--real tough.


The reality, of course, is that through its participation in revising HR2640, the NRA helped turn a bad bill into one that benefits gun owners and the general public both. I will vote for everyone in this NRA election who helped effect that transformation and I will continue to support the only effective national gun rights organization.

I don't understand why this thread is in the Legal section. Has Constitutional magic at last turned the NRA election into a legal issue?

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Please ignore Constitution Cowboy's GOA-inspired rant on HR2640.

HR2640 got us ability to restore rights, nothing changed on determination of a disability, etc. - and bought us helluva good PR shield so congressmen or Senators can say they were "doing something about guns" - so they don't have to vote for HR1022 etc. down the line.

Bill, I'm not a member of GOA, nor are my objections to HR 2640 based upon any revelations other than my own.

As for the ability to "restore" our rights as outlined in the Act, we already have similar gun-rights restorative abilities elsewhere that Congress simply refuses to fund. There is nothing in this act to prevent Congress from not funding it at any point to make those provisions ineffective, or to write new law voiding those restorative provisions.

Common sense inspired by the track record of Congress on such matters advises against relying on any good for our rights resulting from this act. Congress managed to expand the scope and field of the NICS, and the NRA helped Congress do it.

I predict that soon Congress will slam the door on the "relief" in this Act for some contrived reason yet to be revealed and more of us will suffer infringed rights. I want the Board on the NRA - My NRA - to be populated with people who will see through these ruses and fight against them for what those ruses are.

This is a legal issue as much as it is an activism issue.

Woody

Our government was designed by our Founding Fathers to fit within the framework of our rights and not vise versa. Any other "interpretation" of the Constitution is either through ignorance or is deliberately subversive. B.E. Wood

 

[TexasRifleman]

Please ignore Constitution Cowboy's GOA-inspired rant on HR2640.

Bill, I'm not a member of GOA, nor are my objections to HR 2640 based upon any revelations other than my own.

Your arguments against this are word for word from GOAs ranting over the last several months so it's hard to believe you came to those conclusions all on your own.

Sorry.

As RH said, this bill was going to pass anyway because of the Virginia Tech mess. By getting involved and working for change the bill went from one that was really bad to one that is for the most part harmless.

The GOA position was to make no compromise at all, which would have resulted in the original bill being passed.

We'd be much worse off in that case.

Being able to stand there screaming "NO COMPROMISE!!" while bad laws are passed all around you might sound noble to the GOA folks but it seems like a real bad idea to a realist.


As for the actual topic, the Texas State Rifle Association has endorsed Charles L Cotton for re-election to the board and that works for me.

There's a guy named George Kollitides running and it kinda worries me. He is a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital. I'm not sure I want a firearms industry honcho on the board at the NRA. I'm kinda going back and forth on that one.

 

[Pat McCoy]

Anyone who thinks the NRA Board of Directors had any input on legislation is naive. The NRA may not be involved with legislation other than through it's Instituie for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA). The NRA BOD operates the NRA, not NRA-ILA.

 

[Art Eatman]

And all this has far more to do with politics than with legal issues.