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I've been an NRA Life Member since 1977, upgraded to an Endowing Member about 5 years ago, and have been a regularly contributing Golden Eagle ($200+ per year) for the last 5 or 6 years. Since the 2000 election I have contributed a total of at least $2,000 to the NRA's political and legislative activities. Although I am not going to cancel my membership, I HAVE JUST STOPPED MAKING ANY CONTRIBUTIONS UNTIL THEY CLEAN HOUSE AND GET RID OF THE LIBS. I strongly urge everyone else here to do the same. This, and the NRA's tacit support for Obama's DISCOLSE Act are TOTAL DISGRACES.
1 posted on 06/28/2010 5:03:04 AM PDT by libstripper
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The NRA is going to start falling apart.


2 posted on 06/28/2010 5:05:08 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Communism has arrived in Washington)
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“CLEAN HOUSE AND GET RID OF THE LIBS.”

Methinks the NRA has been infiltrated by the libs. This would never have happened 20 years ago.


3 posted on 06/28/2010 5:07:53 AM PDT by rj45mis
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Agreed. I first joined in 1964 and am now dismayed at the course they are steering. They are now apparently sacrificing principle for preferential treatment. Looks like I’ll be giving more to SAF and CCRKBA.


4 posted on 06/28/2010 5:08:12 AM PDT by Boomer One
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The NRA called me yesterday for a donation. I let him have it for a couple of minutes regarding the Disclose Act. I specifically told him the NRA sold out fellow Americans by sacrificing their first Amendment rights to keep the NRA’s second Amendment rights. I concluded by telling him to him to got to h*ll.


5 posted on 06/28/2010 5:08:12 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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It sounds like the NRA is a gonner. And I was going to become a Life Member, this year.


7 posted on 06/28/2010 5:09:51 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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I've always hesitated to join the NRA, because it seems antithetical to the concept of the Bill of Rights that it requires a political action committee to validate each clause.

Sadly, if the NRA falls apart, or is infiltrated by leftists and we've elevated it to the level of the 2nd Amendment's bodyguard, then the 2A becomes vulnerable.

8 posted on 06/28/2010 5:11:10 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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This proves the maxim - if an organization is not specifially conservative, it will eventually drift leftward.


10 posted on 06/28/2010 5:13:03 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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the fix is in


11 posted on 06/28/2010 5:14:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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Anyone who offers constructive criticism to the almighty NRA is an idiot.

DON'T SHOOT HOLES IN THE BOTTOM OF THE LIFEBOAT!!

(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)

12 posted on 06/28/2010 5:15:15 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Give 'em another play.")
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as a life member myself, who just this past Christmas gave life memberships to my 3 sons... I must check into this more, assuming that this one so called journalist has all the facts is doubtful and sounds like they are trying to split the membership with this article.

I must reiterate what I have mentioned here before....the NRA is NOT a conservative or libertarian organization. It is a Pro 2nd amendment organization who will back A and B rated politicians who are liberal on other issues and will not back 90% conservative politicians who are weak on the 2nd amendment.

It has been that way since the 1960s when I first joined up...and I don't necessarily believe that is a bad thing as they are a strictly 2nd amendment organization

14 posted on 06/28/2010 5:15:53 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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As one board member told me, "The bottom line is Chris (Cox) wants to have all decisions go through him and have no board involvement in decisions about or communications with Congress. He was the problem with the DISCLOSE Act. He's the issue re the SCOTUS nominees."

Chris Cox needs to go, preferably with tar and feathers.

16 posted on 06/28/2010 5:16:42 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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what in Gods name is the rationale the NRA is going with here. I dont know what Kagans views are with guns specifically i make the assumption a liberal anti-gunner though i have not see anything to confirm or refute this. Why on earth would the NRA not want to at least ask questions regarding her gun-rights stance?


18 posted on 06/28/2010 5:20:41 AM PDT by DM1
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The Second Amendment Sisters were right on top of the Katrina Gun Grab issue, immediately denouncing it and getting the ball rolling. The NRA came late to the party and as the big dog, got more credit than they deserved.


20 posted on 06/28/2010 5:21:17 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
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Thanks for posting. BTTT!


23 posted on 06/28/2010 5:26:42 AM PDT by PGalt
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Waiting for the NRA apologists to come in here, chastise anyone criticizing this particular plan, and tell us that this is just masterful strategery that the rest of us buffoons are too stupid to see the brilliance of.


24 posted on 06/28/2010 5:28:11 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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I have given up on the NRA for the second time, the first around thirty years ago when Harlan Carter ran the show. I believe that Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a better outfit, and will be my choice for second amendment rights defense from now on. http://gunowners.org/


26 posted on 06/28/2010 5:29:26 AM PDT by Big_Harry ( Starve the Beast!)
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To: Joe Brower; Squantos; Travis McGee; Noumenon; SLB; archy
WHISKEY
TANGO
FOXTROT
... over

30 posted on 06/28/2010 5:33:32 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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From the NRA-ILA as it appears today(don't believe everything you read......lets not throw out the baby with the bath water):

With a Key Supreme Court Decision
Pending, NRA Watches the Court's Latest Nominee

Friday, June 25, 2010

On Monday, June 28, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. With a Supreme Court decision expected that same day in the critical Second Amendment case of McDonald v. City of Chicago and many more Second Amendment cases likely to come, the NRA is following the debate over the Kagan nomination extremely closely.

Because Ms. Kagan has no judicial record and few academic writings, the NRA is carefully reviewing her record in other government posts, including her clerkship for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall and her involvement in formulating anti-gun policies at the Clinton White House. What we've seen to date shows a hostility towards our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, such as her role in developing the Clinton Administration's 1998 ban on importation of many models of semi-automatic rifles; her note mentioning the NRA and the Ku Klux Klan as “bad guy” organizations; and her comment to Justice Marshall that she was “not sympathetic” to a challenge to Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban.

We are working with pro-gun Senators to make sure that Ms. Kagan is aggressively questioned regarding her views on the Second Amendment and other issues that affect America's 80 million gun owners and we look forward to hearing her answers.

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5936

31 posted on 06/28/2010 5:38:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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This just goes to prove that as gun owners, we’re basically on our own.

The *Progressive* movement has bought off or infiltrated nearly every institution in this country. In turn, these disputes will likely be settled by the point of a gun.


32 posted on 06/28/2010 5:40:26 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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When Obama got elected I finally rejoined after a long hiatus because of their inconsistent political activity.

But I’m thinking of canceling my membership again.
I do not want one penny of my money helping the NRA support leftist policies and candidates.

It seems the NRA is well on the way to becoming just another front organization like AARP.


34 posted on 06/28/2010 5:43:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take anymore beatings)
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