This is not a reply to anyone on this thread, but a general statement about the NRA, as members we can vote ( after you have been a member for x amount of yrs. ) but the people who run for the board are small in number and hard to interpret their real position on the 2A, now uncle Ted I think we will agree is a take no prisoners kind of guy, Joaquin, even though I have met him, I don't know, these reps are not out in public that much, expressing opinions and viewpoints, hell, I don't really like, Wayne La Pierre, but he has gotten better, reading his base and adjusting to some degree. Now once elected, this is a board of directors, who amongst themselves will decide who the president and Vice pres will be. The president will decide how the ideals will go, conservative, balls to the wall, or try to lose as little as possible as our 2A rights go. We do not have control over that, sad but true.
Now I had a good shooting friend who was president of the Texas state rifle association, who went on to become a NRA board member, a life long bullseye shooter, and a good one, We held the state championship 2700 match, most of the time. He thought us tactical/practical shooters as cowboys, with no skill. We held a state championship tactical pistol match, and used their beloved bullseye range, much to their disgust, so he was there to make sure we did not hurt THEIR, range. Of course we had barricades and obstacles to traverse, including jumping over saw horses, either holstered or pistol in hand and a target rich environment. The next week I am on the bullseye range, and he is telling his compadres, how the stage was set up, what we did and how WELL, we shot. A slow convert, at the NRA board, he sat next to Uncle Ted, and he had a hard time with his, in your face attitude, but became more of a " if we don't really go forward, we are just plugging the holes in the dike and will eventually lose." God rest his sole, dead now for 5 or 6 years, He really believed in the 2A, but did not get the whole idea until much later. He taught CCW classes and was a very good teacher, and I think that helped bring him around in the end.
The point is, most of us don't really know who we are voting for, once they are published as candidates, contact them and find out where they stand, these are usually not politcians, but normal folk, shooters of some discipline, or just hunters, some are genuine 2A only, they may shoot 20 rounds a year, but believe our rights are precious enough to fight for and become a director, who has to provide their own air fair or drive to washington to be present. Long way from Texas.
Lastly, RIP, Jim Nicholson, a true southern Gentleman, who taught me more about how politics work, than any other person.
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