Rover3 joined Freee Republic on August 5, 2013 and is now posting things critical of the NRA.
The NRA maintains a membership list...no duh? Really? What organization doesn’t maintain a membership list? Free Republic has one, too. Is that proof of some wild conspiracy? Of course not.
The accusation against the NRA is nothing more than a smear tactic and I find it HIGHLY suspicious that someone who just joined FR would troll something like this.
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I can’t say I’d be shocked. Fact is, private corporations maintain extensive databases on pretty much everybody. Your ISP maintains a database, and don’t get me started on the credit reporting agencies.
Hell, the people at Experian - or Equifax, TransUnion or Innovis - probably know what time you drop a deuce in the morning, and whether you do before or after breakfast. And they also know what you have for breakfast.
Corporate databases make anything the NSA has pale in comparison. I worked for a credit reporting agency in the late 1990s and I can assure FR readers, if you have a financial history, they know everything. Ever paid a bill? Ever been late on a bill?
They’ll know about it.
Totally misleading headline and irresponsible reporting for a gun magazine. Just wants hits / readers.
I also raised an eyebrow (spok-like, if you will)
The NRA keeps a membership list of folks that voluntarily joined and made “donations”. This is not an unusual practice. Among a couple of complaints I have, their tireless spamming (snail and electronic mail) is quite annoying.
Otherwise, we have to thank the NRA, whether we find a few faults here are there or not. They have been very influential as a pro 2A lobby group and legal support entity. I am glad they are out there and continue to support their agenda to combat gun rights restriction legislation.
You joined August 5th of this year......just saying.
Not sure what “over 10 million information on gun owners” is... A little proof reading goes a long way to establishing any sort of credibility here...
Look, here is the difference: joining the NRA is voluntary, and it is not a governmental agency.
Clear? Stop tyring to stir the pot, so to speak.
Enough. Done.
Did they also set them up the bomb?
bull spit!
I am a Life member and thru all the years I was a member the NRA never asked me for a serial number or a list of firearms that I own. This is nothing but a back door smear campaign, against an organization that puts everything into the protection of the 2nd amendment. The Government will just have to make being a member illegal and then get the members list.
Come and take them!
The NRA may assume I am a gun owner because I am a member, but there is no information that the state/local and federal government would have on the types of weapons I own, unless they are breaking current law.
um.... maybe people who join the NRA happen to own guns???
DuuuuuuuuHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh~!!!!!!!!
What's "10 million information"?
I STAND WITH THE NRA, JFPFO AND GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA.
NRA doesn’t pretend to police power.
At least pretend to be a conservative before you post.
I’m not reading the article.
The premise is ridiculous and Western Shooting and Concealed Carry, GOA and a few others have similar information.
How the The heck are they suppose to reach out and inform, much less gain new members without this information.
Same thing with their insurance.
They have to know who you are to offer you their services.
You have to willingly consent to a relationship with them for whatever reason you have.
The government is not entitled to that information for any reason other than a 4th Amendment warrant and not some NSA type of trawling expedition, not even for so called meta-data which is private information as well.
If the US government ever invests in NRA, like they they with the communications companies, then I’ll worry about it.
IATZ! That was fast.
I think you are trolling.
I wonder if Rover3 is one of those who have decided to nudge opinion on the internet.