[epow]

When my friend's like-new .44 magnum Colt Anaconda was stolen in a home burglary he notified NRA and filed a claim on the gun loss insurance that comes with membership in that org. NRA sent him a $400 check but the Anaconda, which was discontinued by Colt a couple of decades ago and is now a collector's item, was worth over $2000 according to a gun collector handbook. He argued with NRA for months and they finally raised their offer to $600. Rather than spend money on a lawyer to fight for a fair settlement my friend finally accepted the $600 and then canceled his NRA membership.

I didn't renew my NRA membership when it expired a couple of years ago and I don't intend to rejoin unless it returns to what it was in the early 1960s when I first joined. NRA served a good purpose back in those days, but somewhere along the way it has changed a lot and no longer represents what most gun owners want most of all. And that is to simply have our 2nd Amendment rights honored and safeguarded by the courts and lawmakers at every level of government, nothing more, nothing less.

[CodeToad]

The NRA helped create the 1934 NFA. Once I learned of all this I canceled my membership. I always thought anti-firearm groups like the Brady bunch created all those laws and I found out the NRA was always against citizens owning military firearms and only supported the “sporting purposes of firearms”.

The NRA is the original gun ban group.