Oliver North Stepping Down as National Rifle Association President

IJR.com ^ | 27 April 2019 | al Reuters

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That's NY Slimes spin to convey the message to its sheeple readers that the NRA is this evil ogre.

Like I said, gun owners are intelligent enough to do their own research and determine who's anti-2nd and who's pro-2nd. I instinctively know who's a gun grabber without going through 5 inches of mail to get it from the NRA.

The GOA is nimble. It does not compromise or accept premises, and it'll fight anti-2nd initiatives regardless who holds the WH. The 1980s called NRA. They want their dot-matrix printer, mailing lists, and Apple IIe computers back.

[centurion316]

Judging from the comments on this thread, we can all kiss our guns goodbye. The enemy, my friends are the Democrats, not us.

[Zhang Fei]

[They do. And they do it without the infighting, the clogged mailboxes, and having overhead.]

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I’m sure the GOA sends voter information out to its 8,000 dues-paying members. But the NRA sends that information to 3.6m members. The NRA’s impact is several orders of magnitude larger.

[windsorknot]

Great job, NRA. You’ve given gun-grabbing goofballs ammunition to infringe on 2A rights.

[Zhang Fei]

[That’s NY Slimes spin to convey the message to its sheeple readers that the NRA is this evil ogre. ]

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Actually, that’s the NYT highlighting something that very few liberals know about the NRA. The vast majority of its funding comes from its 3.6m dues-paying members, not perennially cash-strapped gun manufacturers who have typical manufacturing profit margins ranging from 5% to 10% of sales. The liberal caricature is of a vast gun manufacturer lobby flush with billions in profits funding the NRA. The sad reality is of Chapter 11 filings and years of red ink exemplified by even a venerable name like Remington.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

But the NRA sends that information to 3.6m members.

I'm sure they do, among dozens of other mail items that the member has to dig through.

[Zhang Fei]

[Great job, NRA. You’ve given gun-grabbing goofballs ammunition to infringe on 2A rights.]

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Ollie North tried to ease his patron, Wayne LaPierre, out the door, and got his walking papers instead. It’s not particularly surprising, and no real cause for concern. Everyone wants to be lead dog, and Ollie North was making one last play for the brass ring at the NRA. He’s 76, so this would probably have been his last big achievement.

[deport]

Oliver North Is out as NRA President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3745106/posts
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NRA’s Wayne LaPierre claims he is being extorted, pressured to resign by Oliver North ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3744993/posts
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[Nextrush]

I put Ollie North’s integrity ahead of others.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Trust me, liberals know who the NRA is. They are attacked because the NRA spends more time reacting and trying to “work with” gun grabbers than telling them to go to Hell like the GOA does.

[Zhang Fei]

[Trust me, liberals know who the NRA is. ]

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Hillary? Yes. The average non-politician? No. I talk to these people, and they are surprised that the NRA’s funding comes mostly from membership dues and member events it organizes. While he may or may not be paying himself too much money, Wayne LaPierre has done yeoman’s work in keeping the liberal hordes at bay. We have gay marriage, transsexuals in the military and late term abortion, but the NRA has not only held the line on gun restrictions - it’s increased the number of shall-issue states for concealed carry. GOA’s efforts exist mostly in their newsletters. The NRA is like a Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of any GOP pol or Democrat pol in a red district who’s thinking of apostasy on gun rights.

[tallyhoe]

The NRA is over for me. There are plenty of other pro-gun organizations that can use the money.

The NRA has the biggest clout though!

[Malsua]

I pay my $35 a year for NRA membership and yet they still ask me for more money every other week.

If you call them and ask for it to stop, all that will stop. There should be a way to do it on their website, but that'd be too easy and too many people would do it. I was inundated with the same BS. I made the call at least 5 years ago and haven't been bothered since.

[Repeat Offender]

They even sued the Trump administration on the bump stock ban.

You forgot the most important part: The NRA SUPPORTED BUMPSTOCK BAN.

[skimbell]

If it wasn’t for the NRA, there would be no 2A for the GOA to support.

[wita]

A good point. Nothing against GOA but numbers and name recognition do matter. NRA has both.

You have to ask yourself, numbers and name recognition and the NRA?

What do numbers matter when the name recognition stands for their presence and inaction or the wrong action beginning in 1871 and continuing till today and in their wake the practical death of the second amendment. Standing tall for every egregious attack on the second amendment by Government. Responsible for 1934, 1968, 1986, and the virtual ban on automatic weapons, and from that point on the clear difference between armaments of an army squad, and “We the People” in general.

The infighting has been going on since before Neal Knox, and continues. I have tried to maintain a membership since I was Junior NRA in the fifties, but it has become impossible to put up with one particular idea, and that is support for a democrat candidate for public office based purely on their second amendment stand. Endorsing any Democrat in today’s political climate is akin to endorsing the Communist Party.
Which Party should have been deemed illegal based on their ultimate goal of world domination and conquest, but that would be a story for another day.

[wita]

...and what well connected and well known gun organization is it that has a policy of endorsing democrats for public office?

[wita]

the NRA spends more time reacting and trying to “work with” gun grabbers than telling them to go to Hell like the GOA does.

I rest my case. “Work with” includes, 1934, 1968, 1986 gun law. That is certainly a legacy to be proud of.

Don’t you think it is about time someone actually stood up to so called gun grabbers? Especially the ones residing in Congress.

[cornfedcowboy]

The NRA is as essential to conservatism as the ACLU is to liberalism. We need a strong and healthy NRA.

[excalibur21]

Actually, the founders established the 2A in the Constitution. The NRA wasn’t established until the 1870’s. I don’t see them being the reason for the existence of the 2A or any other one of the Bill of Rights.