KY Jon is absolutely right when he says that without the NRA, we would have lost our firearms rights by now. At best, we would have the same type of restrictions and outright bans that England and Australia have suffered.
I frequently hear the lame excuses for not joining NRA, and frequent solicitations for donations are the the most common excuse. I too got tired of the frequency of requests. What bothered me was that I felt too much of what I donated annually was going right back into postage and printing for more solicitations. The solution was very easy. I called the NRA and told them that if they contacted me for donations more than 4 times per year, I would no longer donate to them. Ta-Da! It worked. I no longer pay annual dues to NRA because I am a Benefactor Life Member. But I still regularly donate to the NRA-ILA and NRA-PVF because the attacks on our Gun Rights by anti-2nd Amendment Democrats are relentless.
I'm curious what corporate dues would cost for the Lefever Arms Collectors Assn., or any other firearms collectors association, to become an NRA affiliate. I consider my NRA membership to be about the cheapest insurance there is to maintain my Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
