I am seriously considering not renewing my NRA membership.

[Artos]

A couple friends of mine are life members and they said the calls and mailings dropped off to almost zero.

This is the case for me...in my late 40's and been a lifer for at least 25 years. I never hear from them.

I will send $$$$ only to NRA-ILA and the local Friends of NRA banquet where all the funds go to local projects.

[Buckaroo]

I started telling any and all solicitors that I am unemployed. Seems to be quite effective.
I am also the easy pay lifetime membership plan so that may be a benefit as well.
Magazines are getting poorer and poorer imo.

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[m1a_scoutguy]

I have been a Life Member for longer than I can remember ! Lets put it this way, it cost me $125 bucks,,LOL I get some calls and a mailing once in awhile,I'm good at figuring out there phone numbers so most of the time I catch it and don't awnser . I live in NY and they don't do crap for us,,but just the way it is I guess. Would love a little more feedback from them in our fight on the silly SAFE Act but no luck with that. NYSRP is working hard for us but its a long battle that no matter what we will probably never win shit. 3 more year of work and hopefully I will be out of this place,,time will tell.

[JoshNC]

Like them or not, the NRA is our very best lobbying group. And thankfully the NRA has actually been standing up against draconian gun laws all over the US, albeit seemingly less so in states like CA, NJ, NY which they must incorrectly see as lost causes. Look in the NRA publications; semiautos, SBRs, suppressors are all featured if only in ads. But this is a step in the right direction and to me signals that the Fuddites are mostly out and EBR lovers are in. I would certainly like to see the NRA do better. The only way to accomplish this is to remain a member, vote for board of directors who care about making absolutely NO compromise with our enemies, stay active, and let your voice be heard. The power of the NRA lobby is loathed by the gun prohibitionists and lusted after by other lobbying groups. So let's put to bed this talk of cancelling membership.

[RazorBurn]

I do my membership three years at a time, and I get very few calls. I do get e-mails, but I don't mind them as it's not real hard to hit the delete button. I've been a member for some years now, and I don't receive many calls from them. I'm all for donating 30 bucks a year to them and the GCA to help protect our rights. They're by far the biggest voice, and player on the national and state level. The NRA worked very closely with the WVCDL to help get constitutional carry passed in West Virginia. I'll always support those who support my rights, especially when the dues are less than taking the family out to dinner.

[NYH1]

I have been a Life Member for longer than I can remember ! Lets put it this way, it cost me $125 bucks,,LOL I get some calls and a mailing once in awhile,I'm good at figuring out there phone numbers so most of the time I catch it and don't awnser . I live in NY and they don't do crap for us,,but just the way it is I guess. Would love a little more feedback from them in our fight on the silly SAFE Act but no luck with that. NYSRP is working hard for us but its a long battle that no matter what we will probably never win shit. 3 more year of work and hopefully I will be out of this place,,time will tell.

My son, wife and I are all NRA members as well. If anyone calls our house or my wife or my cells phones that we don't recognize we don't answer.

I've called them a few times about issues here in New Yorkistan and they told they don't get involved in state issues. Gave me a local lawyers number. Then they get involved in the Chicago and DC handgun issues. DC's not even a state for crying out load. I also belong to SCOPE and NYSRPA. Those two org's hated each other until recently. Go figure, fighting for the same thing and couldn't get along.

Their magazines have gotten terrible latey as mentioned. I don't need to be told every time I open one "we saved you....but it's gonna get worse". It seems they want their membership to feel the same way about them that the libs want their peeps to feel about them. They want to pound the "fear thing" and "we'll save you" into us. It's does get old. Wayne LaPierre making the money he makes is ridicules too in my opinion.

NYH1.

[Bulletdog]

Are they perfect? No. Are they about the only thing standing between us and the libs running roughshod over our rights? Yep.

Think about this another way: The lefties, SJWs, and gun grabbers all HATE the NRA. NRA is worse than Satan himself to them. Think about that. They must be doing something right.

Fear mongering? Sure. They are guilty. Bugging people too much for donations? Guilty of that too, but it must work or they wouldn't keep doing it. I don't know why people feel the need to lie, make up stories, or not answer their phone. Why can't we just politely say "No thank you.", and hang up. Thats what I do and it works like a charm.

The NRA only has 5 million members. There are about 150 gun owners in this country. Rather than quitting because you don't like their fund raising efforts, how about getting some of those other 145 million free loaders to get off their asses and in this fight. If even a third of the gun owners in this country joined the NRA, we'd have enough power and political clout to over turn all this non-sense. United we stand. Divided, well, we all know how that ends.

[SteyrAUG]

I am seriously considering not renewing my NRA membership.

Not only do they call me all the time, they even started calling me using another number after I began blocking their phone calls. Additionally, I receive endless junk mail from the NRA. How much of my donations are they spending on soliciting me to contribute more? How much money is spent on the junk they mail out for renewing your membership (it'd be better if they mailed you a free PMAG or something, if they MUST)?

Wayne LaPierre is paid over a million dollars a year, in addition to many millions distributed to his retirement fund... yet they always enclose a letter ostensibly signed by him begging us to donate more. Why doesn't he donate more? There are people in the military that are paid a tenth of what he's paid, yet are responsible for much, much more than he is.

The NRA-ILA consumes only a tenth of the NRA's total budget, yet this is the foundation of the organization.

I'm starting to think the NRA is just a self-licking ice cream cone.

Thoughts?


EDIT: And, yes, I know I can contact the NRA and tell them to quit soliciting me. I shouldn't have to do that. If I'm a dues paying member, I should be left alone. If I don't ever answer the phone, or always hang up on the caller, then that should be a sign to quit calling, as well. But guess what... many people, especially older folks who don't use the internet, have no idea how to stop the endless soliciting. They don't make it obvious... you have to look for the FAQ on the NRA website. It's unacceptable.

That borders on ridiculous. What group doesn't contact their members to offer products, services or solicit donations?

It's this simple: "Please put me on your do not solicit list" and that is all you have to do.

You don't need the internet, grab any copy of American Rifleman and call the 800 number and they will route you to the department that takes care of requests to not be solicited. If you never give them a dime beyond your membership fees that is fine. If you want to donate only to the ILA that is fine. That is what a lot of people do.

I'm a Life Member and they never call me, there is nothing in my mailbox except my copy of The American Rifleman. And if you don't want to be a member because they can't figure out what you want from them, then don't renew your membership.

But swear to GOD, when Harry Reid and Obama tried a last hour second attempt after the Sandy Hook legislation failed to go anywhere, there was only one group that kept that shit from going anywhere and right now you are complaining that they call your phone too much and cram your mailbox with junk mail.

Groups like the GOA, JPFO and several others are wonderful IF you can afford to support them as well. But there is only one group the anti gun crowd takes seriously. They may not be the "gung ho" / "no compromise" die hard organization that is dedicated to scrapping the entire 1968 GCA so your kids can mail order firearms direct to your home, but it's the best we've got at the moment.

[mark5pt56]

Life member here and always do the NRA round up when ordering. Rarely receive mailings and occasionally donate additional. Funny how people always dream of what to do with the money if winning a large amount in the Lotto. Not listing all of them but one would be to set up accounts and have NRA sponsored training for folks starting out.

[RetroRevolver77]

I got a renewal notice the other day- I'm not up for renewal for another eight months. Those mailings have to cost a lot of money and it bothers me that they waste those kinds of funds on drip mailing junk mailings or fake renewal notices.