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Because it appears to me, simple shit that I am, that the head honchos are bilking the membership by double dipping, paying outlandish fees to buddies in return for favors - to them personally - down the road.
Do you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, think that former Democrat Wayne LaPierre, actually gives a fvck about your AR? Nope, he hopped on the NRA pony in 1977 and is riding it for all it's worth:
Later that year (in 1977), Wayne LaPierre began working for the N.R.A., as a lobbyist. LaPierre, a former Democratic legislative aide with little experience handling guns, was not obviously suited to a role as a firebrand.
In 2014, NRA contributions totaled $103 million and LaPierre's compensation was $985,885. In 2015, NRA contributions totaled $95 million. In that year, LaPierre received a $3.7 million "employee funded deferred compensation plan", which was required by federal law, according to the NRA raising his total annual compensation to $5,110,985.
Let's see, $5,110,985 was 5.4% of the total take of the NRA for that year. Yep, he's down in the trenches with us, lots of skin in the game. LOL
I really, really get you. I'm all for calling a spade a spade, especially when it comes to our guys that we give money to so that they can act on our behalf and in our interests. I'm all for calling out former Dems who know nothing about guns becoming big deal people in the NRA. And we should all remember the NRA gave Harry Reid an A fcking rating right up until he tried a last hour, second attempt at the Sandy Hook Assault Weapon Ban when he thought nobody was looking and everyone believed the issue was settled.
But sad as they are sometimes, the NRA is out first wall of defense. Granted it's crumbling, not well maintained and money we give for improvements or even maintenance seem to get spent on other things. But it still is our first wall of defense and any changes for the better are going to have to come from within.
Of course that means that your average NRA member must be made to understand what the NRA does, what they are supposed to be doing and what they aren't doing at all. So we have to start there.
I'd be willing to bet 50% of NRA members don't even know what the "sporter clause" within the 1968 Gun Control Act is or how much it dramatically impacts their lives and regulates the firearms they can and cannot have access to. Sadly they all seem to know about the Reagan "machine gun ban" and will forever piss and moan about that one while being willfully ignorant of the rest of FOPA 86 and what the alternative would have been if it had not been passed.
If I could have just one thing, it would be Universal Education regarding the Sporter Clause so the NRA membership would declare BULLSHIT and make the NRA actually do something meaningful about something. But no, they are too busy with Bumpstock and that traitor Trump who banned them without even realizing the "sporter clause" is the basis for such arbitrary legislation.
If I was President of the NRA I would send out an information letter every damn month informing people about the Sporter Clause and what can be done to strike it from the 1968 GCA.
Last edited by SteyrAUG; 04-23-19 at 00:15.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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