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Title: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Ben on March 05, 2019, 12:02:07 PM
According to dimwit Shannon Watts, people are forced to become NRA members when they buy a gun. Oh... also for the discounts.  :rofl:

It's probably not that funny, because these are the retards that push totally made up bullshit out to the public, and a gullible electorate laps it up.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/03/05/this-crap-again-dana-loesch-knocks-shannon-watts-out-for-pushing-absurd-conspiracy-to-smear-her-and-the-nra/
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 05, 2019, 12:18:34 PM
This is coming from the same people who claimed that the NRA is controlled by the Russians because they found something like two, count them, two Russian members.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 05, 2019, 12:22:49 PM
What is scary in all of this is how little political power the NRA actually has compare to many of the big time players like unions and yet they make it out to be King Kong
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: MechAg94 on March 05, 2019, 12:43:15 PM
How many members would the NRA have if every gun owner actually joined?
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 05, 2019, 12:45:58 PM
This is coming from the same people who claimed that the NRA is controlled by the Russians because they found something like two, count them, two Russian members.

And the same people who are just fine with you being "forced" to pay union dues to keep your job.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Brad Johnson on March 06, 2019, 09:40:43 AM
How many members would the NRA have if every gun owner actually joined?

About 250 million.

Brad
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: 230RN on March 06, 2019, 10:22:15 AM
Well, useta be, don't know if it still is, that you had to be an NRA member to join the State R&P Association.

I wish AARP had that requirement.

:eyeroll: :devil:
:big grin:

"Do I get an AARP discount for this ammo?"

 =D

Terry, 230RN

Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Firethorn on March 06, 2019, 02:56:50 PM
I haven't ever used the NRA discounts.  All the places with them that I've actually done business with give discounts as good or better for other associations I have.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Scout26 on March 06, 2019, 04:35:45 PM
Well, useta be, don't know if it still is, that you had to be an NRA member to join the State R&P Association.

I wish AARP had that requirement.

:eyeroll: :devil:
:big grin:

"Do I get an AARP discount for this ammo?"

 =D

Terry, 230RN



The Illinois State Rifle Association does not require NRA membership to be a member.  Even the Gun Club I ran didn't require it.  (We had several members who were judges and other people for whom NRA membership could have proven to be problematic with their jobs, so we never required it.)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 06, 2019, 05:10:23 PM
Even 4H didn't require NRA membership for the gun clubs and that stuff was all sponsored and run in conjunction with the NRA.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: charby on March 06, 2019, 05:18:54 PM
One of my gun clubs requires NRA membership to be a member, spelled out in the By-laws.

http://rcriflepistolclub.org/
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 06, 2019, 05:39:47 PM
One of my gun clubs requires NRA membership to be a member, spelled out in the By-laws.

http://rcriflepistolclub.org/

The local club around here requires it, too. *shrug*
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 06, 2019, 05:43:50 PM
Googled NRA meme and this is some of what came up

(https://i.imgur.com/drjGkot.jpg)


(https://s3.amazonaws.com/freakoutnation/uploads/2015/12/NRA-lobbist-meme.jpg)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 06, 2019, 05:44:22 PM
(https://www.memeologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Nkwu-a1c9o1AJ2WqbtJ0O9lixY0h45seE4bM3k1A1H0.png)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 06, 2019, 05:44:56 PM
(https://pics.me.me/the-nra-national-russia-association-nras-new-slogan-31188968.png)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 06, 2019, 05:46:23 PM
(https://img.memecdn.com/talking-gun-control---nra-style_o_1371323.jpg)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: WLJ on March 06, 2019, 05:47:46 PM
(https://cdn.dopl3r.com/memes_files/the-nra-headache-meme-KRsQf.jpg)
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: gunsmith on March 07, 2019, 12:43:16 AM
LOL

 When I was an armed guard in San Francisco I used to tell people on the street ( if they asked ) that California law required all armed security
to be members of the NRA.
 They always believed me and a lot went away angry swearing they will do something about it
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: MechAg94 on March 07, 2019, 09:04:05 AM
One of my gun clubs requires NRA membership to be a member, spelled out in the By-laws.

http://rcriflepistolclub.org/
Mine does not, but when I joined, they said NRA membership and Texas State Rifle Association membership was one way they sifted through the applications. 
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: MechAg94 on March 07, 2019, 09:05:32 AM
Well, useta be, don't know if it still is, that you had to be an NRA member to join the State R&P Association.

I wish AARP had that requirement.

:eyeroll: :devil:
:big grin:

"Do I get an AARP discount for this ammo?"

 =D

Terry, 230RN


That wouldn't be too good here.  The TSRA has something like 60,000 members.  That is pathetically low considering how many gun owners there are here.  It is still a lot when it comes to state level politics.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: charby on March 07, 2019, 03:15:28 PM
The local club around here requires it, too. *shrug*

Being 100% NRA club does allow for benefits from the NRA in grant money and reduced insurance costs.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 07, 2019, 03:46:22 PM
*raises hand* Question.

If you've already bought one gun and one NRA conscription, do you have to buy a second (or third or eight or whatever) NRA conscription if you buy another gun? Or do these conscription's have an expiration date, so subsequent gun purchases add to your conscription? Or do you have to buy a totally new conscription for each gun and so you have to give them to friends, or family members or the dog or something?
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: Angel Eyes on March 07, 2019, 04:16:37 PM
After five guns, you must sacrifice your first-born on the altar of LaPierre.

Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 07, 2019, 04:41:00 PM
After five guns, you must sacrifice your first-born on the altar of LaPierre.



LaPierre is going to be very disappointed in my, because I have way more than five guns, but no first born.
Title: Re: Forced to Become an NRA Member!
Post by: MechAg94 on March 07, 2019, 04:41:24 PM
*raises hand* Question.

If you've already bought one gun and one NRA conscription, do you have to buy a second (or third or eight or whatever) NRA conscription if you buy another gun? Or do these conscription's have an expiration date, so subsequent gun purchases add to your conscription? Or do you have to buy a totally new conscription for each gun and so you have to give them to friends, or family members or the dog or something?
You do it for each gun, that way your annual membership gets extended out.  

Of course, if your state has One Gun per Month laws, maybe you can do the life membership so you don't have to do it every time.