Flourished? Go back 40-50 years. You might remember them. The time when you could order a gun through the Sears catalog? When schools had a rifle team, and practice on grounds. When a ‘Saturday night special’ was only ~$25.
Hey, I was only saying they were also the Judas in the midst with their ‘common sense’ capitulations. Whomever wishes to give out their own $$, I have NO say whatsoever.
You act like they’re the ones who wrote every anti-gun law you’re unhappy with. They aren’t. They’re regularly under enormous political pressure and, at times, they’re under insurmountable political pressure. That kind of insurmountable pressure is becoming increasingly prevalent yet I can still travel about freely with a .357 on my hip and there’s little chance that that will change any time soon. I can still purchase or sell an assault rifle privately or otherwise too which is pretty amazing considering the unprecedented political pressure levelled against the NRA, gun owners, our representatives, etc. The NRA got right out in front and led the charge into that battle and we won and I have no doubt that we won, in large part, thanks to their warcraft. To put it another way, there is NO other gun rights group in America that would have been anywhere near as succesful as the NRA had they been charged with holding the line. I couldn’t be more proud to be a member of the NRA.