I’ve been an NRA member since 1989 and have probably received a couple tons of junk mail from them in that time. I keep hoping that they’ll join the 21st century and switch to spam, but they’re not exactly a cutting edge organization.
This is exactly the issue that Neal Knox campaigned against in his bid to reform the NRA. Current NRA leadership (Wayne LaPierre) seemed to see the NRA as a cash cow to be milked. The current leadership won, Neal Knox lost, due mostly to illegal and immoral tactics that have been well documented.
In defense of LaPierre, it seems that he has come around to see that active defense of the Second Amendment is the best way to increase membership. The NRA lost a lot of members because of unidirectional “compromises” it was willing to make.
I stopped donating to the NRA many years ago, even though I am an endowment member. I believe that I get more bang for the buck from SAF, JPFO, or AZCDL.
Everyone has to make their own choices. I have found that once I stopped donating, the junk mail started to fall off after a couple of years.