ANOTHER PROUD NRA MEMBER...
MAN! Hard to believe how much verbiage can be generated by a simple poll. Couple of you writers not only wrote long dissertations in response, but repeated and repeated and repeated your arguments!
I have a short comment on my Annual Membership in the NRA. I first joined in 1952, the year I graduated from high school in a small Hoosier town. I owned 152 firearms. Shortly after that I discovered girls and a lot of my guns were quickly converted to cash. Girls or not, I remained a collector, shooter, and hunter. My gun inventory has suffered, I'm down to a third of that now, but I no longer hunt, and shoot very little. Mainly a collector.
No, I never signed up for a Life Membership. I figured the NRA could better use the ever-increasing dues I would pay each year than the small amount I would send them up front back then. Five decades later I still sign up and pay up every May. And, yes I have an NRA decal on each end of my car.
Yes, I get aggravated at their constant solicitation of funds. Same with Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, but I still send each of them a couple of ten spots at least a couple of times a year. I happen to appreciate what they've already accomplished and what they continue to do for their memberships. I regularly tithe to our church - same reasons.
Would appear some of you don't believe in the old saw, strength in numbers. Like one poster said, the Brady Bunch - and their anti-gun ownership ilk - have no fear of ANY gun bunch except the NRA. But, you gladly support those OTHER gun groups. Hmmmmm??? Sound like you might be driving your ducks to a mighty poor market.