[Rifleman]

Over the past 40 years the NRA has done a fair to middling job of fighting a rear guard action against the gun grabbers, loosing as little as possible in each engagement. They have almost never attempted a roll back of the oppressive laws.

NRA lacks credibility here. And I might point out that the civil rights movement started making much faster progress when suddenly there were people like Rap Brown and Malcom X and organizations like the Panthers and SNCC to deal with as well as MLK and the NAACP. Martin Luther King looked real reasonable to the politcos, in contrast.

The NRA NEEDS the contrast of the JPFO and the GOA so it can accomplish more. If its leadership really wants to. If all they want to do is keep the rear guard action going and keep collecting money from gun owners, there by preserving their "phony bolonie jobs", well, then they DON'T need groups like JPFO and GOA.

[ibbryn]

I agree, the NRA is needed as a public face to the 2nd Ammened fight.
GOA, RKBA, JPFO and other more "radical" groups make the NRA look extremely reasonable to the general public. Carrot AND stick.