I haven't, but I'm not especially surprised by the response you were given. A few slipups aside - eg. the "jackbooted thugs" letter in 1995 - the NRA has been very careful to stick to the mushy middle and not scare off the crowd that shoots $15,000 trap guns because that's where five figure donations come from.
Taken as an across the board gun rights organization, they are a failure. That's because that isn't what the NRA is. They are for hunters, target shooters, CCW holders, and the businesses that cater to them. And they have had great success at expanding the rights of these groups.
If you want a pro Class III, 2nd Amendment is about defense from the government association, that isn't the NRA.
That said, I still believe the 1986 ban amendment was a hoodwink they may have gone along with too easily afterwards and not a planned sellout from the beginning.
Thanks for the reply. Either way the silence condems the NRA in the Class III crowd, many of which own firearms that make a $15,000 trap gun seem cheap in comparison. Compared to some of the Class III firearms I have bought in the past few years I would have considered $15,000 to be a bargin. Unfortunately it appears the NRA has written Class III owners off altogether.
All I have asked for from the NRA is a statement explaining their side of what happened in 1986. Just this past week I emailed the membership services department asking them for a statement on this prior to my upgrade to an endowment membership and me buying my youngest nephew a life membership. So far I have not heard one word from the NRA and neither have I mailed them a check.
What irritates me the most about the NRA is their false claim to support all gun owners which they don't.