I wonder how much money is wasted by the NRA on stupid stickers, bags, shirts, junk mail and so on? Being so big and wonderful do they really need all that stuff to push the brand?
When I first joined, they told me it would be 6 months before I received my "free range bag." I told them not to worry about it. Then one day it arrives... I could have done better getting a Rouses paper bag. They use promotional items to entice fudds. It's even funnier that people are trying to sell them.
IMO: If we don’t get the younger generation to understand why we have and need the right to keep and bear arms the NRA won’t be needed anyway.
As LIFE MEMBERS...
Every member should be eligible to vote...
If you have been a member for 5 consecutive years, you are eligible to vote.
Lots of fail in this thread.
Point being, you should be jumping for joy at the work the NRA has done in the past 100 years. They actually took the original intent of the 2nd Amendment from a very distant time and modernized its intent to keep pace with the here and the now. Self defense! Home defense! Sport shooting! Hunting! Legalized ownership of automatic weapons (if you are willing to pay)! And, on and on!
Go back and read the original verbiage in the 2nd Amendment; then think about all of the things that you can legally do and the firearms you can legally use and own in the context of the modern world, and tell me how the NRA let you down.
I think that is important, but I also don't believe the NRA is the end all be all.
It's more important to get the younger generation involved with local politics than getting involved with national level political groups.