This is good news from my POV, their stranglehold on gun policy has been bad for the country. What’s funny though is that instead of blaming the insane excesses they took with members money, they blame the government for calling them on it. Which I guess is pretty on brand for them. NRA Membership Fell to 3.8 Million in 2023
Well was not a member in 2018. And still not a member in 2024. In 2018 I owned 0 guns. We now own 5 guns…
It seemed to evolve from a gun safety group, actually opposed machine guns, to not just gun rights but gun advocacy to a broadbased rightwing megaphone.
when I was a kid they published a magazine about hunting and the out of doors . I read it. It was cool. But they have fallen into the same trap as some evangelical churches in that they have forgotten their original mission and have traded it in for political advocacy. They haven't been cool for a long while.
Likewise, in 18 I owned 0 guns, now I have 4. Two I bought and two I got from my dad when he passed away.
I own a big dog whose couch is besides my front door. He is a sweetheart but doesn’t like strange men. If you want to rob me have a woman enter my unlocked front door with a steak. She could toss it to him and he might leave with her. Come to think of it if a woman came to the door with a nice steak I would probably let her in too.
That’s good. You never know when you might have to shoot a 14 month old pup. It’s best to be prepared.
Anything to kill a Constitutional Amendment... and your Cancel Culture is your Leftists' attempt to kill another Constitutional Amendment. It funny how hard the Leftists try so hard to kill our Constiotutional right with their endless attempts to vilify our rights.
I think you are correct here. There are many people that are gun owners that are not in that organization, so I don't think (not that you said this, per se) it means much for gun ownership in general.
I seem to be the official end point for family owned guns when their original owners pass on and my son owns a few but his wife won’t let him keep them in the house so my gun safe is the compromise. So i have possession of a dozen guns or more but wouldn’t join the NRA if you poked me with a hot stick.
It evolved from a gun rights advocacy group to a vehicle for Wayne LaPierre and his cronies to grift gun owners and enrich themselves with the membership having no ability to do much of anything about it and many of the members not really having a clue what was actually going on. as far as gun rights and 2A lobbying, it was kind of well known that as of the last 10 years or so other groups did a lot of the legal legwork and the NRA would swoop in near the end of the process and claim credit.
It became an organization hijacked by totally corrupt individuals who cared not for “gun safety”, who used extremist political messaging as a useful distraction away from the fact they’d turned the enterprise into a criminal money laundering operation, including receipts from foreign adversaries. Shit, are we talking about the NRA or the Republican Party?
As someone who did some of that legal legwork on behalf of other groups only to watch the NRA repeatedly demand to be the belle of the ball in case captions, public statements, and other PR-areas, as well as frequently trying to veto arguments we wanted to make because of NRA-specific concerns, I have to agree with this. They didn’t really want to do the work. They just wanted to exercise oversight, claim credit, and raise funds off the results.
Gun owner. Had an unfortunate situation in which I had to level one of them to protect myself. Glad I had it when I did. Not an NRA member. Never been one, never will be.
