http://gunssavelives.net/gun-politics/domination-nra-won-91-of-election-races-they-campaigned-in/ Strengthening Gun owners rights. Good job NRA!
The NRA is one of the last hopes for America. They are America's largest and oldest civil rights group, and everyone who enjoys their freedoms should support them.
we've got 5 million people in the NRA and all they spent was $7 each? Out of $35 each (per year) that we give them? Plus a TON more voluntary donations? They should have spent 5x that much, while we had the chance to REALLY rack up points.
yeah, so what? the NRA will get another $70 + per member (and all those donations) tween now and then, and we'll either have much less of a chance of getting things done, or obamacare will have wrecked the dems and we won't need to influence the outcome. but while this lame duck sits in the white house, we are in great danger, by not having a veto proof Senate.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is smaller than the NRA but is becoming a powerhouse. http://gunowners.org/ While the NRA is starting to get a little to inside-the-beltway and sometimes pulls its punches in the interest of politics, the GOA is a no-holds barred gun rights group. GAO may have done more to stop the banners in the past 2 years than the NRA. There is also Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) http://jpfo.org/ But JPFO were just bought out by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and nobody is sure what JPFO will become, SAF sometimes is a bit weak and hasn't learned that there can be no compromise with banners. If you want a real down to earth, no BS, don't take prisoners gun rights group, it was JPFO before it was bought out.
Well congratulations, there are two groups that are more efficient in protecting our 2A rights than the NRA (The Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owner's of America) that you can join and not feel as though you are going "over the top".
They aren't more efficient. I don't know of anything they have actually accomplished that the NRA didn't actually do. - - - Updated - - - Your NRA $35 dues don't go to political things at all.If you want to help them lobbying politically, join or donate to the NRA-ILA, which is their lobbying group.
I support those groups. I'm glad that they exist and that they are more hard core than the NRA. BUT, they are small, very small potatoes, so to claim that they are "more efficient" then the NRA (do you mean more EFFECTIVE?) The answer is not,not even 10% as much, actually, cause they just aint got the money or the numbers, or the track-record/percieved ability to generate votes/mail (to editors and officials) that the NRA is well proven to be able to do
Well I am now a GOA member. they seem a little radical, but as Captain Marko Ramius of Red October said: A little revolution now and then is a healthy thing, don't you think?
Which is exactly my point. They get more done behind the scenes than the NRA will ever get done on stage. They don't spend thousands of dollars hiring some celebrity to make commercials or on huge colorful mail-outs. You probably will never hear of anything they do without having to go looking for it, and that is efficient. I like how they spend their money more than I like how the NRA spends theirs.
Please show me anything they have accomplished that the NRA wasn't also in support of. You won't. It's the NRA that has the clout. The NRA itself doesn't spend politically. They are not allowed to. The NRA-ILA, their political action committee, can. The NRA spends it's money on training, etc.
