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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
If it were not for the NRA, the 2nd Amendment would have been lost years ago.

I don't believe this, not for a second.

Nor do I...

I had to look up when he started. 1991. That surprised me. I'm 55 and can't remember a time when he wasn't in charge. I thought he started way before 91

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Originally posted by synthplayer:

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Originally posted by hvactech:
Interesting read:

RICOCHET Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist by Richard Feldman.

Hvactech, you've obviously read the book. How did it affect you? Are you pro/anti NRA? Or, is it more complicated than that?

Has been some time since my read of the book. I'm a member and support the NRA. I believe the good outweighs the bad. The main point of my read of the book was the apparent truth of the desire of the fight, not our rights. A logical motivation to generate revenue. A while back when the NRA was supporting a "Castle" bill, a well respected VCDL lawyer/ Historian told me he questioned what side the NRA was really on.

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Originally posted by Zecpull:
I have a Very good friend that is a recruiter for members.. He was at a Large international convention last month.. and signed people from UK . Germany , Canada, and also the Netherlands. All of them said they knew that the NRA needed to keep fighting .. the guy from Canada said he wished they had them fighting for them.

The NRA spent a Lot of money campaigning against Hillary.. and I believe some of them got through to people. There are many good organizations that also help, but the NRA seems to get the most press. I ask them to not call and I am an endowment Life member they dont call much.
The NRA also does a lot of training, and helping kids learn to shoot.

Like a corpse on coroner's slab that sits up and eructates necrotic gases, that evil defeated witch wasted no time after yesterdays' tragedy targeting the NRA.

What's that cliché? The GDC's tell us whom they fear the most.

Haven't read all the replies.

But my take: without the NRA the closest you would get to owning a gun would be whittling one from wood or holding up your fist and extending your thumb and index finger.

Period.

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My thoughts:

Better than nothing.

Good potential.

Occasionally effective.

Overpaid leadership.

Terrible Marketing.

Shitty front man.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

I am a reluctant supporter who would prefer they are replaced or they fix their shit.

I'm a life member who receives lot's of junk mail from them which gets shredded.......but after the Vegas shooting, I got a feeling that we're going to have support the NRA in the coming weeks, months or even years.

I've been a member for 30+ years and a life member for 20 of those. I simply asked to be taken off their call and solicitation list years ago and don't hear from them other than the magazine I get each month.

You're fooling yourself if you think we would still enjoy the gun rights we have today without the NRA.

I don't see a point in turning on the NRA because of fundraising mailers that can be discarded with all the other junk mail you receive. We need to stick together.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I'm a life member who receives lot's of junk mail from them which gets shredded.......but after the Vegas shooting, I got a feeling that we're going to have support the NRA in the coming weeks, months or even years.

You may be right. It's already started

GOP leader says NRA-backed bill shelved indefinitely

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Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, pushed Congress to pass a universal background checks bill and "commonsense gun laws" to help prevent the next mass shooting.

"Gun violence is a public health crisis. There is no single law or policy that would prevent every tragic shooting, but let's start working together to do something," Durbin said on the Senate floor. "We can't stop the shootings that have already happened in Las Vegas, Chicago, Roseburg, Oregon, and across the nation. We failed to respond in time for those victims and their families. But if we work together, we can stop shootings in the future."

Besides the silencer measure, House GOP leaders had been moving forward with a bill to allow people with concealed-carry permits to take their weapons to other states. Republicans had been upbeat about prospects for legislation, but votes on both measures seemed unlikely.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who favors gun control, said Monday it was "time for Congress to get off its ass and do something." In an outdoor news conference Monday, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, grievously wounded in a 2011 attack, turned to the Capitol, raised her fist and said, "The nation is counting on you."

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/36...shelved-indefinitely