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Post by paul105 on May 31, 2009 22:00:24 GMT -5
I have been a member for a long as I can remember -- turn 63 this year.
All you guys/gals need to remember your state organizations as well. I've been a member of the Montana Shooting Sports Association for a long time. At the state level they actively promote/ introduce gun rights legislation. These organizations are responsible for the favorable concealed carry laws recently enacted in many states and other laws that benefit gun owners/self defense. When I get my membership renewal, I always send them an extra couple of hundred bucks.
Paul
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Post by nobearsyet on May 31, 2009 22:21:11 GMT -5
I am still a member of the Ohio Sportsman's Alliance, even though I now live in Arizona, but it seems as though gun control is a total nonissue here
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 1, 2009 8:02:18 GMT -5
I'm a life member and also make yearly donations to the NRA (I work a half-mile from their headquarters so I'm constantly reminded of all the good work they do). -Lee www.singleactions.com |
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Post by AxeHandle on Jun 1, 2009 10:06:47 GMT -5
Good point on the State Associations... My daughter and I are life members of the Alabama State Rifle and Pistol Association... A good friend signed me up for the Texas State Rifle and Pistol Association last year. That looks to me a membership worth keeping!
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Post by Fowler on Jun 1, 2009 11:31:54 GMT -5
I have to admit to just rejoining here last week.
Don't haze me yet.
When I was in Jr High and High school I was a proud member and shot Small bore and High Power rifle competitions, it was good fun but I was getting burned out on shooting holes in paper. Anyways the NRA called and asked if they could get my opinion of gun control and the state of the general union and all of that stuff. This guy was talking about big brother controlling us and how guns were our defense against a tryranical goverment and blah, blah, blah.
So about 45 minutes into the conversation that I was enjoying, not neccesarily buying 100% into from this very militant caller (still feel he was a extremely poor rep for the NRA) he told me "I hope you don't mind but we have been recording this conversation for future use!" I was pissed and still am to this day almost 20 years later. He spoke about "big brother" and here there were doing the very same things! We I told him to shove my membership somewhere uncomfortible and swore I would never be a member again!
Now 20 years later I have decided with the current administration that I need to get over my grudge and rejoin so I did. I have been a active and proud gun owner all of my life but I have never felt that the NRA was the "god" so many make them out to be...
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Post by nobearsyet on Jun 1, 2009 11:39:08 GMT -5
I don't consider them to be the gun control defense god, but IMO they're the best we got right now
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Post by AxeHandle on Jun 1, 2009 11:56:00 GMT -5
Yo NoBear! Tell me about the state association in AZ. You got a POC? I see lots of shooting competitions in the Tucson area in the NRA's Shooting Sports
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Post by rigby on Jun 1, 2009 11:56:20 GMT -5
Fowler nor do I, I found some of their position soft in the past. My biggest reason for being a member is because hey are the biggest and most well known. They get the media attention and the more members they can show the better for all of us.
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Post by gjn on Jun 1, 2009 12:01:23 GMT -5
I have been a life member since I'm 17. No reason not to be a member, the NRA has been offering free memberships and they have been our first line of defense.
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Post by Madbo on Jun 1, 2009 12:15:44 GMT -5
I AM A MEMBER OF THE NRA AND TEXAS STATE RIFLE ASSOC.
THE NRA IS OUR FIRST AND LAST BEST HOPE.
I CONTRIBUTE ALL I CAN.
MB
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Post by nobearsyet on Jun 1, 2009 12:29:59 GMT -5
Axe, I don't know too much about the state association here in AZ, I'll ask around at work today and get back to you.
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Post by Charger Fan on Jun 1, 2009 14:28:51 GMT -5
I'm not a life member, but I am a member. I joined last year, when for the first time as an adult, I felt that our gun laws were REALLY in jepoardy. I agree that the NRA isn't the 'be-all-end-all', but as stated previously, they're about the best we have right now & every little bit counts. I need to call that number though, to have them get me off the garbage mail list. I don't need NRA health & life insurance, thank you.  On a side note, this old sticker was on my 1976 Ford truck window when I bought it a few years ago...has to at least be 20 years old. When my new one arrived in the mail, I knew exactly where I was gonna put it!   |
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Post by nonpcnrarn on Jun 1, 2009 14:54:37 GMT -5
During the negotiations on the assault weapon ban during the Clinton administation the Senate offered to exempt AR-15s because they were used in competition if the NRA would sign off on the rest of the ban. The NRA refused. As an owner of 3 AR15s I was a little PO'd at the time. But the NRA drew a line in the sand and I have to admire them for that.
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Post by sugarriver on Jun 1, 2009 16:00:22 GMT -5
Been a lifer since the early '80s.
Pete
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Post by taffin on Jun 1, 2009 16:12:18 GMT -5
I need to call that number though, to have them get me off the garbage mail list. I don't need NRA health & life insurance, thank you. I ASKED THEM ABOUT THIS YEAR'S AGO. IT IS MORE PROFITABLE TO THEM TO SEND TO EVERYONE THAN TRY TO SELECT MAIL. |
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