On the plus side, there are literally millions of new gun owners out there (with a bunch of them probably right here, on FreeRepublic). On the minus side, there's a massive, organized attack underway, on our right to keep and bear arms.
Now, the only pro-gun group a lot of those new gun owners have ever heard of is the NRA (courtesy of the paperwork the manufacturers include in the firearms boxes). And when they come to FreeRepublic and read the "banglist" posts, what do they hear from some folks? "Wayne's suits" & "the NRA sucks!" No mention of Gun Owners of America, or any of the State groups, or JPFO, or even direct support for pro-gun politicians; nothing that might point a new gun owner in the right direction. It's "Wayne's suits" & "the NRA sucks", 100% of the time.
In a lot of ways, their comments aren't much different from the crap posted by left-wing trolls. It's like a broken record, or a bunch of drooling zombies stumbling down the street, saying the same thing over, and over, and over...
Maybe it’s true. I’d say that Tom Gresham qualifies as an insider. If he says Wayne was spending dues monies on suits and private air travel, I’m inclined to believe him. Those monies are not, by NRA by-laws, meant to do anything but service membership. Anyone that has money to throw at NRA-ILA is free to do so. but I don’t know why they would until NRA cleans house