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Offline Brett

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NRA annual convention in NC
« on: January 24, 2010, 04:28:33 PM »
Anyone planing on going to the NRA's annual show and convention taking place May 14 - 16 in Charlotte, NC?

I've been hoping they would have one in Charlotte and can't wait to go.  It should be a lot of fun.

Oh by the way, exhibit hall admission is free to all current NRA members.   
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2010, 05:49:31 AM »
Yep, I go every year.  You will love it.  Just got back from the SHOT show and it was incredible.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2010, 01:34:16 PM »
plannin on it
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2010, 06:11:52 PM »
While your there, would you tell them to quit sending me crap trying to get me to send them money, buy a credit card, or insurance? It's annoying.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2010, 01:05:40 PM »
Every time I get on a thread anywhere with the NRA mentioned there is somebody crying and moaning about the amount of mail they get from them.







when all you have to do is throw it away or call and ask to be taken off the mailing list.
 I find that annoying
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2010, 04:11:43 PM »
Gulp! :o Sorry. ;)
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2010, 04:20:48 PM »
Coldmold is correct.  If the constant product offers and pleas for money bother you that much you can contact them and have your name removed from their mailing list.

I'm tired of people whining about how their 2A rights are being trampled but won't take the time to write their congressmen or won't write a check occasionally to a pro 2A organization.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2010, 04:27:11 PM »
You NRA boys don't take a joke very well do you?
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2010, 04:38:44 PM »
hey guys that want to bust dee... you know he's a member too right?!  calm down, take your prozac or whatever and chill.  don't lie and say you aren't on something because you're acting a fool over a little comment already...  :-\
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2010, 04:44:35 PM »
Actually I'm not a member, but I don't see the reason to get upset. They vote for McCain and send their money to the NRA. I think that's great. Funny but great just the same. McCain keeps the NRA in business, buy voting against the 2nd amendment, and they keep the NRA in business trying to stop McCain. Kind of a circular distribution of funds, and job creation all in one. And entertaining in an odd sort of way.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2010, 04:45:02 PM »
Well, it does get a little annoying when anytime someone post something positive that the NRA has done or is doing someone has to come along and bring up the mail issue especially when their is a simple fix for it.   ::)

And no, I am not on "something" but thanks for your concern.   ;)
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2010, 04:57:27 PM »
hey I was a ritalin kid, I know one when I meet one brett!  always fidgeting (however that's spelled).

I am hard right (in my opinion, then again I'm white/straight/veteran/missouri so I'm a terrorist too for all I know, anyways...) and I love the nra ideals but it makes me sick to open up my mail and see all the advertisements too.  Let's be honest here, most of the nra functions probably don't need help from us "little guys" so where does the money go?  I still give a little but I do it skeptically.  You know what Wayne La Pierre gets for salary every year?  Look it up, it's about 8 million if I remember correctly.  I'd be nra pres for a quarter million and be quite happy so I don't really feel the need to defend the bs in the mail from the nra- THE NRA's BOARD of DIRECTORS is full of ELITE, RICH types in the gun business, and has plenty of money already.  voting nra is usually a meritorious pursuit but that doesn't mean buy into it completely (they have goals other than benefice for us poor meager citizens targeted by the nwo, one being MONEY).
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2010, 05:15:29 PM »
Quote from: Brett on February 07, 2010, 04:45:02 PM
Well, it does get a little annoying when anytime someone post something positive that the NRA has done or is doing someone has to come along and bring up the mail issue especially when their is a simple fix for it.   ::)

And no, I am not on "something" but thanks for your concern.   ;)

Agreed Sir. The NRA isn't perfect but it is the best chance we have to fight the dumcraps. If it weren't for them we'd of lost our rights many years ago. POWDERMAN.  >:( >:(
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2010, 05:23:38 PM »
Quote from: Squib on February 07, 2010, 04:57:27 PM
hey I was a ritalin kid, I know one when I meet one brett!  always fidgeting (however that's spelled).

Ha!... that's where your wrong.  I grew up before Ritalin was widely prescribed.  The teachers just threw me into detention when I acted up. Then Mom or Dad would apply a little corporal punishment to my backside lest I forget to tow the line too soon.  Of course now it's more PC to drug kids into little zombies rather than teach them how to apply some self control.  
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2010, 05:28:36 PM »
hey at least I stopped you from dropping the "it takes one to know one" on me  :D  ritalin and nintendo....

I know guys, the nra is worthy of our membership.  I just hate getting hit up for money from rich guys.  I give some here and there when I feel like it, don't like being prodded for more.  I like the monthly "bust them out" magazines I get, and the mudslinging (directed at liberals) that I get during election time- THAT'S WORTH MOST ANY ANNOYANCE.  Not more than a blind $100 a year though, I don't want to give anymore than that without knowing where it's going (gotta keep wayne rich for another decade).
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2010, 05:57:05 PM »
Brett, I was kiddin with the mail remark. It was a joke. I didn't get ugly, I didn't bash the NRA, and I didn't mean to make anyone mad. The jump back jack attitude was a little surprisin from you, but hey. I don't care if you guys send your cash to those clowns, and I don't care if the NRA sells ya stuff. I don't even care if they send me those expensive mail outs. I put Christian tracks in them and send them back to the NRA. Hey ! I might show someone the Gospel that needs it, and the NRA paid for it. Doesn't get any better than that.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2010, 11:39:21 PM »
Quote from: coldmold on February 07, 2010, 01:05:40 PM
Every time I get on a thread anywhere with the NRA mentioned there is somebody crying and moaning about the amount of mail they get from them.


For good reason.
Look, it's OK to criticize the NRA.   And before you get mad, let me tell you I've been a Life Member for 40 years.  Some criticism is legitimate and necessary.  It might improve things.
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2010, 02:24:44 AM »
well i got to looking in my junk drawer an found out i must still have a membership..
 but i can t remember how far back it was,, that i sent in my 25..
 i would go if i could get away for that long..slim
 my wife ,use to order me stuff to surprise me.. got a bunch of stuff from thje north american hunting club..
 don t care fpr the buttons an stuff..but i think i got a pretty good skinning knife out of it..slim
 she was just doing what she thought would make me happy..i acted like it was the cats meow.. and it was.. because she did it..preciouse :)
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Re: NRA annual convention in NC
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2010, 03:01:53 AM »
Quote from: Dee on February 07, 2010, 04:44:35 PM
Actually I'm not a member, but I don't see the reason to get upset. They vote for McCain and send their money to the NRA. I think that's great. Funny but great just the same. McCain keeps the NRA in business, buy voting against the 2nd amendment, and they keep the NRA in business trying to stop McCain. Kind of a circular distribution of funds, and job creation all in one. And entertaining in an odd sort of way.
Me I'm an envelope stuffer. I get the envelopes and I stuff them. But not with cash.

I'm an NRA member.  I first joined as a junior member in 1970s.  Kept my membership through the 80s and most of the 1990s. And I let it lapse.

Joined up again a while back.  They do some supremely annoying things, that's for sure....  Like backing politicians with relatively weak 2A credentials like the John McCain's of the world, and they continue to back them.  They were using the same kind of scare tactics over a dead bill to drum up membership that anti-gun rights groups use to drum up support for their view.  By trying to act like that bill was still active and could actually go someplace, they essentially lied to me, and I don't like being lied to even by the "goodest" of the good guys.  Sometimes I feel like they could have and should have been more involved in the fight against draconian tyrany coming out of Sacramento when I was a resident of the People's Republik of Kalifornia, too.  But hey, they are, in more or less their own words,  the NATIONAL Rifle Association and NOT the CALIFORNIA Rifle Association, so......

I can think of a host of goofy crap the NRA does, things I wish that they would do, etc.  But you can't change an organization from the outside without a vote or voice in its operations nearly as effectively as you can from the inside with a vote.  That's why I re-upped with enough membership to get to vote in internal NRA elections.

Love 'em or not, the NRA is still the most effective voice on the national level for the 2A.  That said, I certainly don't hold to the idea that the NRA isn't beyond reproach or criticism.   I think they still are worthy of support.  I don't think they're worthy of blind allegiance.  There is a difference.

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