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I send money to the most effective groups. That would be the NRA and on the local front, The Texas Rifle Association.
The next group that I would send money to would be the Second Amendment Foundation and the Second Amendment Sisters. The Sisters aren't much of a lobbying group but I love their Media Coverage.
I'm still waiting for the eleventh person to tell me what the GOA does before I send money to them. I won't send a penny to anyone that can't tell me what they have accomplished or/and openly criticizes another group.
The last legislation that the NRA stopped was a Florida Mandatory Trigger Lock Law a couple of months ago.

Straight from the GOA website, Shooter.

"Let me reiterate, once more, my deep appreciation for the tremendous job being done by Gun Owners of America in the battle to defend America's right to keep and bear arms. There is no question that without GOA, American gun rights would be in even greater peril today."
Jesse Helms
U.S. Senator, North Carolina

"I hope you will work with Gun Owners of America to make sure that your voice is heard in Washington."
Lamar Smith
U.S. Congressman, Texas

"GOA was here in Mississsippi when we needed them. They are an oustanding defender of the right to keep and bear arms"
Ken Stribling
Mississippi State Representative

"GOA works very hard at keeping the public informed about many issues regarding gun control issues that would not otherwise be in the news."
Evan Marshall
Detroit Police Department

"GOA has been a strong, dependable ally in the struggle to defend America's gun rights. Gun Owners of America is uncompromising when it comes to Second Amendment rights issues."
Jim McClure
U.S. Senator (Ret.), Idaho

"It's been a long time since someone has been on the side of those who believe in the right to own a gun. I support GOA and urge all gun owners to join in their efforts."
John Milius
Producer, Movie "Red Dawn"

"Gun Owners has [an impact] on Capitol Hill. As a U.S. Congressman, I see, first hand, the tremendous influence GOA members wield when their letters and postcards begin landing on the desks of my colleagues."
Rep. Steve Stockman
July 1996

"Gun Owners of America led the fight in defeating the terrorism bill in 1995. They generated grassroots pressure that made it possible for us to hold tight and keep the bill from passing."
Rep. Joe Scarborough
September 1996

"Gun Owners of America has drafted language for a string of bills, most recently one to repeal all gun control laws, that have been introduced [in Congress]."
Roll Call
February 1996

"GOA has resisted the bipartisan effort here in Washington to federalize more and more crimes. Were it not for GOA and some other grassroots groups, we would have seen an even worse erosion in this area."
Rep. Joe Scarborough
October 1996

"Gun Owners have posted some success on Capitol Hill, chiefly by killing the anti-terrorism bill in the House last year."
Roll Call
February 1996

"The [terror bill] compromise unraveled as conservative House Republicans -- many of them freshmen -- backed the Gun Owners position and refused to follow Barr [the cosponsor of the bill]."
Roll Call
February 1996

"I believe that we can thank Larry Pratt of GOA for putting enough pressure on Congressman Barr that the offending provision [to increase the scope and authority of the BATF] was removed from H.R. 1488."
Brad Alpert, October 1995
in the Bullet,
official publication of
Western Missouri Shooters Alliance