[RicocheT]

If you want the Second Amendment defended, the NRA does the best job for your money. I know some here do not like some of the tactics it has used or the political endorsements it has made or some of the past and present NRA officers, but when gun owners and users are under siege in localities, states or by the federal government, the NRA shows up and works hard to right wrongs.

[AvOrdVet]

but when gun owners and users are under siege in localities, states or by the federal government, the NRA shows up and works hard to right wrongs.

Come on, the B.S. meter just pegged on that one... Most of the victories these days are not due to the NRA, most have been pushed and fought for by local/state activists and groups.

Usually, if the NRA does show up, its after the legwork has been done, deny it as you may, a search of the facts proves it is so.

My membership to the NRA expires next year and I was willing to give them the benefit of a doubt, hoping that they had learned their lessons from the beating they took last year.

Obviously they learned nothing from the member backlash and the Keene matter just sealed the deal, I'm out.

[Niteranger68]

OK...can the NRA un-endorse NC Gov Bev Perdue, who signed a law that suspends many of our 2A rights when a state of emergency has been declared? Can they get that $5,000 primary contribution to Harry Reid back? Tom Gresham exposed Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox as fools back during the election and I do not forgive and forget so easily. My NRA membership will always be a year-to-year decision, to keep them honest if nothing else. SAF is not tone-deaf when it comes to the link between our gun rights and all of our other freedoms. The NRA? Hell...who knows?

[dagogo redux]

NRA lost my support when it became clear that they were merely playing defense. They have not drawn any line in any sand that I can tell, merely choosing to keep putting fingers in the increasing numbers of holes in the dike.

They are more than content to focus on the 2nd as a pro-hunting amendment, and let the rest die slowly by incrementalism. When they say at some point, “We will tell our vast, armed membership to respond to your latest infringement on their right to bear arms in whatever way they see fit,” I may reconsider re-joining.

They need to be like that other guy lately, who, when asked to by some lib doofus to sum up his pro-2nd stance, said, “If you try to take away our guns, we will kill you”. I can get behind that sort of leadership.