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Benefactor Member, 3rd generation Life. Kids are *all* Life members, as is better half.
You can contact member services and ask to be removed from the email/mail lists, and they WILL do it very promptly.
For us, we're directly involved with the "Friends of NRA" program. 501(c)3 - so donations there are tax-deductible, and it frees up the NRA's general fund to further the RTKBA issues. Annually, we drop in the 5-figure range to FNRA dinners and auctions through my business. My CPA wigged out the first time I gave him the receipts, etc. - but now he actually joins us at a few of the functions.
I joined in the mid 1970's and used to send regular like sometimes monthly. I got a huge slap in the face when they started squandering multi millions on non gun issues and had that shrine built to themselves in Washington. They lost sight of the vision a long time ago, and do just enough to keep the members happy, I don't like la peirrere's attitude, and wonder who pays for all the trips around the world to hunt game on their shows. They have sided with senate in washington gun issues I am against. I am an on and off member and don't donate anymore, I get more information from the Gun Owners of America and do send donations other than my membership.
I let my membership lapse when I found out how much Wayne LaPierre and other top brass makes; don't regret it. Their mailings go right to the trash.
Join a statewide group and a more focused national one like GOA or SAF and you're in the fight and harassed much less.
Mine just expired, too. Not renewing. My dad was Lifetime Member and he had tons of free stuff he was always sharing with me (must've given them a boatload of money). As for me, I have other causes and NRA isn't one of them.
Interesting....lots of "not NRA members".......GOA, etc. - yet TSRA *is* a part of the NRA - and while they ain't perfect, without the NRA, we'd have definitely lost the battle earlier this year.
I used to pay up the membership promptly and sometimes donated at gun shows. However, seeing the NRA sit by completely silent as anti-gun laws sailed through in California without so much as a complaint from them, no more money heads their way from here.
Other than sending fools to do interviews and send put junk mail with offers for a free gift I don't see that as being money well spent. I think chain letters are probably more efficient than their methods.
What amounts to bribing politicians for votes is short sighted.
Interesting....lots of "not NRA members".......GOA, etc. - yet TSRA *is* a part of the NRA - and while they ain't perfect, without the NRA, we'd have definitely lost the battle earlier this year.
As for salaries, fifty-six people in the organization earned more than $100,000 in 2010—and 10 made more than $250,000. Lapierre does not top the list. Kayne B. Robinson, the executive director of general operations does. He was paid just over $1 million. Lapierre was second, pulling in $970,000 in reportable and estimated comp.
Assuming dues paying members only (which a lot of NRA members are) 1,970,000/35=56,285 members to pay two.
No desire to be a part of that racket.
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