Phone call from NRA

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Steve H

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Yesterday I received a phone call from a woman claiming she was with the NRA. She thanked me for being a member and then went on to ask me to donate $100 to the NRA to help finance the upcoming battle. Seemed a bunch fishy to me. Anybody else receive a call like this?
 
I haven't gotten a call like this, but I wouldn't put it past the NRA to ask for more donations.
 
They were calling me about once a month until I ask them to stop.

No more calls since then.

rc
 
Life member here, who gave a ton of money last year.

Ask them what they're going to do, specifically, before you hand over any money. I want a solid fight from the NRA, and I'm willing to help them do that. If they're going to go all NFA or GCA on us again, then they can do it with their own money.

Not to be down on the NRA, but this fight is going to be politically unpopular. I have doubts about their willingness to get their hands dirty on this one.

I truly hope I'm wrong though.
 
I am a Life member as well and I'd really like to know just where the hell the NRA has been!

The cowardly backstroking and NRA site shutdown really irks me.......and that's being really kind about it! If ever we've needed them, it IS now!



And to the point, DZ. If they DO pull a '34 or GCA they will truly have cut their own as well as our throats. I may be a Life member, but I'm GD for sure and certain NOT married to them!
 
A few years ago, I was testing some VoIP equipment for a company. There was phone number assigned to me that had no connection to anything aside from the company involved. During this time, I called the NRA membership department about something just once using that line. A few weeks later, I got a call soliciting money from the NRA asking for me by name. Then another. Then another. I'd never given out the phone number and certainly not asked that my membership be updated with it. I asked how they got that number. The caller had no idea, of course. Oddly, instead of calling my usual number that was associated with my membership, somehow (through ANI, no doubt) they had associated a number from a single call to them with my membership and added it to their solicitation list.

Not much would surprise me after that.
 
Sadly, being harrassed by the NRA is why I dropped my membership. The money now goes to smaller groups. Mind you, the fake silver bullets and bronze tone medalians were quite meaningful to me as were the multiple Tales of the Gun videos. I figure they spent a lot of money, a lot of my membership, trying to get more money out of me. That just was not what I had in mind.
 
I got a call like that yesterday too. I told her I thought NRA membership was important, but any additional money seems better spent by Alan Gura at SAF where I'm also a member. I just sent them a check a couple of weeks ago (before the whole world went crazy) and I'll send a little more when the holidays are over.
 
I like to know how my donations are used, who needs it more, and where is the best bang for the buck so I did some quick digging.

NRA -http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5450
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2012&cmte=C90013301
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000082&year=2012

SAF - http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7405


GOA - Couldn't find any info on the charity navigator site. Found this link under the Lobby tab.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000026353&year=2012

JPFO - Couldn't find any info on the charity navigator site.

Oh and OT, they haven't called me. Probably because I don't give them my number and use outside phones when I do call them.

So there's an idea...borrow a phone from your antigunner buddy, boss, associate, heck even a stranger on the street, for a quick call and dial up the NRA.:what:

I'm kidding...seriously...no, for real...:evil:
 
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My main reason for posting about the call is I had a funny feeling that the caller was not representing the NRA. Her speel made me think it was a scam.
 
I've been a member for decades and can only recall them calling once. Received enough junk mail to fill the Grand Canyon though. :D
 
I too dropped my NRA membership years ago because of the harrasssing calls asking for donation (at the time I had a young child and money was tight), at one point the telemarketer made a comment about how me being a base level member was a burden on the NRA and I actually would cost them money, I told them I could solve that problem for them and have never given them money since. On a side note I gave $50 to gun owners of america yesterday.
 
I think you were right to be suspicious. In our decades of NRA membership, my wife and I have never been called. Email and snail mail are another matter.

Jeff
 
I am a Life Member and I use to make donations peridically. THIS IS WHAT I GOT IN RETURN.


Here is just ONE YEAR worth of junk mail from them asking me for more money. After about 3 years of ignoring the junk mail and "gifts" sent to me requesting more donations, I was finally able to shake them. I don't dare ever donate again to them for fear of being put back on their suckers list.

I don't know why they don't see that this kind of aggressive fund raising turns off a lot of their members. If I could just write a check to them once a year, and be left alone for the remainder of the calender, I'd start giving again. But I'm sure that they aren't capable of understanding that concept.



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Now is the time to be a little skeptical of calls for donations but with little effort, you should be able to ensure your donation goes to the proper source. As a life member since the seventies, I personally use their website as a means to contribute.

The NRA isn’t perfect. It may tout impending disaster too frequently as a means to elicit contributions, but as our staunchest supporter of the 2nd amendment, their good far outweighs their flaws.

The die is cast; we are in for a tough battle. This fight will not be won without cost. I urge all gun enthusiasts to become engaged by writing your representatives and to contribute want you can to defend our rights.
 
I sent an e-mail to my senator----she sent back a stock letter basically saying that things are going to change for gun owners--expect it.
The union lost a big fight here a few weeks ago & our senitors are in a bad mood---OUCH
I AN SENDING THRU E-MAIL EXTRA MONEY TO THE NRA---DC IS GOING TO TRY TO DESTROY US---DON'T LET THEM
 
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