N-R-A Voting Question

[Rastus]

OK.  I hear a lot of you guys talking out there about the NRA.  Let's find out how many are members and how many members vote. 

[Pathfinder]

OK.  I hear a lot of you guys talking out there about the NRA.  Let's find out how many are members and how many members vote. 

Can't vote, the list of options didn't have one of the all-important categories. That one would be - who the heck are these people? I mean, other than what's provided in 2 column inches buried somewhere in the magazine giving a highly sanitized bio. I have not been shooting long enough to have a clue who most of them are. Now, with DRTV, I can find out a lot more easily at least.

I had never even heard of the current NRA President, all I know about him is he is some hunter from Delaware. I would love to have been a fly on the wall way back when when Neal Knox was on the board, at least based on his and his son's articles.

So how do we deal with this ignorance? Seriously, how do we get the word out about people like the board member in the other thread? Is this why their membership is only 4 million out of the 80 million gun owners, because it is all about who's in with the NRA power elite, and who knows who?

[Hazcat]

I became an NRA member for the first time at the beginning of this year.  What does it take to be a voting member?

[Rastus]

I became an NRA member for the first time at the beginning of this year.  What does it take to be a voting member?

Hazcat, annual members don't (or didn't) have voting rights...which I think is a good thing as it would keep anti-gun people from joining and having undue influence.  For voting, I believe it used to be 5 years, though it may be a 3 year member now.

Pathfinder, what question would you have me to add?  We generally, as members, get bios on these people which are usually short I know.  That's why it's important to have people who can listen to news in their area to get the word out when there is a "power elite" dropping the ball.  I like your posts, you got a lot of good things to say...but this wasn't meant to be a couple of trick questions.  A big part of why I wanted to put it up was to get civil ideas out. 

On the 4 million I would think it's because peoples priorities change, they don't like to put money in something that they feel someone else will keep up...just speculation...let someone else do it so they don't have to commit.  Now from a different perspective, out of 80 million gun owners what other gun rights organization has more members, more influence. or performs more good?  It will never be perfect unless more people get involved. 

[JohnJacobH]

OK.  I hear a lot of you guys talking out there about the NRA.  Let's find out how many are members and how many members vote. 

I am a voting member, but I will not be one when my membership expires this year. I have toyed with the idea of demanding a refund for my last few months in a (feeble) attempt to get the attention of the NRA Kakistocracy.

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[CLP]

On the 4 million I would think it's because peoples priorities change, they don't like to put money in something that they feel someone else will keep up...just speculation...let someone else do it so they don't have to commit.  Now from a different perspective, out of 80 million gun owners what other gun rights organization has more members, more influence. or performs more good?  It will never be perfect unless more people get involved.

Amen to that.

  Even Clinton admitted that the 2000 elections were affected by the NRA.  Gore lost His own home state and Clinton"s Arkansas.
Do any of us believe the AWB would have sunset under Gore?

[2HOW]

I am a voting member but really have no idea even with the bios ,who to vote for, I think I voted for Ted Nugent once

[Rastus]

I am a voting member but really have no idea even with the bios ,who to vote for, I think I voted for Ted Nugent once

Those bios are too short.  That's why it's important for a-l-l of us to be watching and let each other know what the individual board members really think...just like one of the posts on this board.

PS...I voted for the Motor City Madman too.  Uncouth, to be certain, but I thought the old guard need to be pushed off their laurels and who could push them out of their comfort zone better than Uncle Ted?  His wife may be our best spokesman on the feminine side of gun rights.

[Pathfinder]

Pathfinder, what question would you have me to add?  We generally, as members, get bios on these people which are usually short I know.  That's why it's important to have people who can listen to news in their area to get the word out when there is a "power elite" dropping the ball.  I like your posts, you got a lot of good things to say...but this wasn't meant to be a couple of trick questions.  A big part of why I wanted to put it up was to get civil ideas out. 

Rastus, the option for your list would be - I would vote if I knew who these people were, but I don't, so I didn't. If that makes any sense.

I could have sworn I was a voting member, NRA Life through the ELF program, and I thought I had gotten a ballot before. But having read these posts, I don't think I am after all. I have been a member for a few years, joined with annual back in 1999 I think.

I do hope the Nuge gets in, will either help shake things up or be marginalized by the powers that be. And Michael, run next go round, OK? You'll probably get at least 845 votes.

[Rastus]

Rastus, the option for your list would be - I would vote if I knew who these people were, but I don't, so I didn't. If that makes any sense.

I could have sworn I was a voting member, NRA Life through the ELF program, and I thought I had gotten a ballot before. But having read these posts, I don't think I am after all. I have been a member for a few years, joined with annual back in 1999 I think.

I do hope the Nuge gets in, will either help shake things up or be marginalized by the powers that be. And Michael, run next go round, OK? You'll probably get at least 845 votes.

That makes sense and...the Nuge has been in for at least a couple years, Wang Dang.  If you are a lifer, you are a voter!

OK...let's push to get Michael on the board.  We all know where he stands on guns.  Plus, he is a published author so he knows how to talk to the "beautiful people" in the book stores....I bet he'll draw flys with those earrings....whaddya think???