NRA membership for you?

[PaulS]

I am a life member of the NRA and member of a few other pro-gun organizations.
What really busts my gut is that not one of these organizations has ever done the one thing that will forever protect the individual's right to bear arms in this country.
None of them has challenged the Supreme Court to define the second ammendment as it pertains to the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms. Why?
The only reason that I can come up with is that once that is done there is no need of any "watchdog" organizations and those jobs (along with the pay for those jobs) will disappear. Why attack anti gunners on a State by State, Challenge by challenge, one little bit at a time when with one sweeping move you could make all of those challenges null and void. We have a right to own, have in our possession and keep arms capable of defending ourselves, homes and our country from invasion and subversion. That includes military type weapons and every conceivable small arms that might be of use in a war to keep our freedoms and rights in place. Maybe I am a little right wing for my own good but as I see this issue it is not a State's rights issue - it is quantified in the USA's constitution in the section we call the "bill of rights". It is stated that these right come from the creator and the institution of the government is / was made to preserve these rights for us and our posterity. If they are not doing that then you should be asking yourself -
Who is the enemy? How can I fight that enemy? and you should come to the same conclusion or a similar one to what I have.
The only way to get the government back on track is to either replace those in congress (house and senate) with those who support our constitution - Libertarians. Elect Libertarians because their platform is the constitution. They will enforce your rights - all of them.
We have to re-establish the president's role and the fact that our elected officials are to represent the people while abiding by and protecting the constitution of the United States - not by circumventing it.
OR separate from the USA and establish or re-establish the United States as it was originally intended. A group of independent sovereign States that supported a common bill of rights and a government that would represent them in international politics by being aswerable to those States. Cesession is the ultimate result of a central government that refuses to do what it was put in place to do. The anti-federalists were right, there is no way to control a central government with a group of independent States who give up their sovereignty for "security".
We need to take a long hard look at what the government is supposed to do, what they are doing and whether it is acceptable to us as individuals, Sovereign States, and as a country.

[gunpilot]

I am an NRA member because they are the most significant pro freedom organization in the USA.

[gunpilot]

I am an NRA member. Sure, they are not perfect. I called the NRA credit card number and talked to some idiot who had no knowledge of any affiliation with the NRA and could not provide me with any information.  I did not opt for the credit card. Another friend renewed his membership early as they always pressure us to do, and got dual magazines instead of an extra year membership. As a result he got mad and cancelled his membership indefinitely. Perhaps if he joined the brady campaign he would have gotten a more accurate handling of the situation. Still, the NRA is THE organization that fights for or constitutional freedon. I don't see how they can allow ANY gun bans in this country because that is unconstitutional, clear and simple. just as if a state would ban freedom of religion.

[alsatian]

I have been a member since 2002 when I became active shooting and hunting.  At about the same time I signed my son up as a member and have kept his membership active.  I think the NRA performs a vital function protecting our second amendment.  I particularly value the notice the NRA provides, via its magazines, of the gun control records of political candidates.  Ask yourself how many anti-gun politicians have gone down in defeat due to NRA outing their track records on gun control issues?

[shotgunner]

I am a life member also. I don't understand why people complain about junk mail. If you don't want it throw it away.

[Tn Jim]

I've been a yearly member for three years. I also have a CCW and own one (for now) of the dreaded "black rifles" with all it's invented in the ninth ring of Hell "deadly features" (30 rd mags, flash surpressor, pistol grips). I firmly believe the NRA has helped to make alot of this possible. I plan to upgrade to a Life membership soon.

[GRIMJIM]

Finally paid off my life membership. I plan on upgrading at the convention in St. Louis next year. Went to my first convention this year in Milwaukee, and now I plan on making it an annual event. You can actually walk right up and handle almost any kind of firearm you can think of, new production anyway. Colt revolvers, rock river ar's, Kimber 45's, I spent three days droolling all over the place.

If anyone has questions about the values the nra represents, I would invite them to attend the banquet. Talk about patriotic, color guard, pledge of allegiance, someone in the audience started singing america the beautiful and everyone joined in. I believe movingly patriotic would be an apt description of the atmosphere of this event. Maybe they should invite all the naysayers to this convention, then they can see that gun owners are just everyday people, doctors, lawyers, farmers, carpenters, all walks of life and not a bunch of crazed psychopaths waiting to go off the deep end.

Anyway that's my two cents, I can't wait til next year.

[alsatian]

PaulS:  Relative to NRA sponsoring a Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment . . . be careful what you wish for.  Supreme Court precedent is not easily overcome.  If I were in the decision making chair I would make darn sure I had a super majority of gun supporters on the Supreme Court before I followed through with your plan.  Going to a liberal Supreme Court is liable to get a precedent established on the second amendment -- a precedent which may be adverse to construction of the second amendment as a private right versus a communal right of state militias!

[Scout]

I have been an NRA member and RKBA advocate for many years, and I agree they are a powerful lobbying organization for us...but they are not the best grassroots organization for us (and don't appear to be interested in that job either)..  Join your NRA Affiliated State Organization for better grass roots efforts or other organizations like JPFO, and another small one I can't think of now..   Here's the naysaying..

The NRA has an integrity /ethics problem.. plain and simple..From their slandering and attacks on great 2nd Ammendment warriors like the late Neal Knox to the lavish gifts and salaries the officers accept from corporate scene (gee.. that sounds like some other folks in DC we know) ..

Never the less, I feel compelled to pray for the NRA (that they clean up) and remain a member to support them.   

Let me  relate to you folks a story from a close friend and colleague at work.. He used to work in DC at the DOE (I think) ..His cousin is an accountant and applied for a  job at the NRA.  When he interviewed for the job , they asked him a classic accountant interview question  "What's 2+2 ?" He answered "Anything you want it to be."  He got the job  !! My friend (conservative, ex military and patriotic) heard his cousin relate that story and instantly formed his viewed of the NRA - a bunch of crooks!