Same here. Joined in '56 and worked my way up to Benefactor. Still dunned for more contributions, including leaving them something in my will. No thanks. Money now goes to GOA.
I was turned off on Pierre years ago, during the Koresh siege. He was on a TV show with Schumer, talking about the gun fight. Schumer held up a 50 cal BMG round and said "This is a 50MM cartridge, which is what Koresh is using.", then held up a 9mm round and said "This is a 9MM cartridge which is what the FBI is using."
I clapped my hands, figuring Pierre would tear him apart on that, along the lines of "This man either doesn't know what he's talking about, or is a liar - in which case he shouldn't be making gun laws."
NADA. Pierre just sat there like a bump on a log. Not a freaking word in rebuttal. I nearly had a stroke. From then on, when an NRA article praising Pierre's work came out, I gagged and passed on reading it.
Some months later, I just happened to catch a newscast about Schumer and one of the pols came up to him and said "Nice work on that 50MM." and he just gave that slimy smirk he always gives. I could have punched the tube.
I still give the NRA about $20 a year, honestly, I think I do so from some form of psychological “muscle” memory, for the lack of a better term. However, the bulk of my money goes to the GOA and a few other regional organizations that fight much harder for the 2nd Amendment. About a year after Waco, I was working in a convenience store when an ATF agent came in and I struck up a conversation about what had happened at Waco. He was adamant that the Feds had been fired at with .50 cal rounds. I politely told him that I was a veteran who was very familiar with the 50BMG and at the ranges involved the agents who had taken cover behind the cars were proof that no 50BMG rounds were fired. He took a hard look at me and I told him if I had been firing such a round at those individuals I could shot clean through the car and still them without any problem whatsoever.
His response was to ask me if I thought he was lying, I said I doubted that, but that there were innumerable 50 caliber cartridges that could have been used that would not have penetrated the cars, but that the 50BMG could and would chop through a civilian car lengthwise at far greater ranges, and that I knew this from my personal experience. He shut up paid for his stuff and left. That really pissed me off. The fire part of it pissed me off because everyone knows that smoke grenades get hot when they are deployed, I chalk that up to simple gov’t employee stupidity.