I agree with this excerpt of an article from the Federal Observer, that the NRA is impotent.
Why then the success of gun control? The heavyweight tiebreaker is of course the left-liberal, gun-hating media.
Realizing that it takes lots of money to run for office in America, and realizing further that most is spent by campaigning politicians in media advertising, the media as a "special player" puts the unconstitutional gun control minorities in a position that is much more vocal and powerful than the greater number representing the people in the NRA. Considering also, that poll after poll shows that 70 percent of Americans don’t want anymore gun control, what we now have is a tyranny of the minority over the majority of citizens in America. Add to this fact that the NRA has become structurally incompetent itself as a large, layered organization, and gun owners are in deep trouble. And so is all of America.
Gun control organizations of minority grass roots membership are lean, effectively organized, and have massive media propaganda on their side. Additionally, extremely wealthy behind-the-scenes millionaire/billionaire socialists like Andrew McKelvey, can pump vast sums of money into their movement dwarfing the funding resources of membership heavy, grassroots organizations that are trying to protect their Bill of Rights freedoms which the minorities and their media are incessantly attacking.
Although the NRA does a lot of good, it is a classic example of an increasingly structurally incompetent organization mired in a tendency towards politically expedient damage control as opposed to all-out aggressive, proactive publicity and education campaign. The NRA’s organizational network is ready and willing, but structural incompetence as well as their gate keeping protectionism, is tying gun owners hands along with their shootin’ irons.
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6027