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The NRA........

jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
How many people on this site are pleged members of the NRA? How much were your dues when you signed up? Did you donate too the second amendment foundation when you signed up?....just asking... I recently joined.

lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What's a "pleged" member? I am a member of the NRA and I think it cost about $25 when I joined. Plus, I support other pro-RKBA organizations as well such as MUCC and MCRGO (Michigan orgs).

    I try to give $$ whenever possible, but it does seem like the more I give the more they send me bulk mail hitting me up for more.

    I'd say I donate about $150 per year to these organizations. If I ever get time, one day I'd like to voluteer my time too.



    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a member and as I recall, it's around $35 a year. I sent a modest contribution to their legislative PAC. I also joined GOA to be in an organization that pushes more aggressively for gun rights.

    Some people on this board are life members. I've resisted being a life member of anything since I became a life member of the TWA Ambassador's Club and soon after that they started closing them.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a Life membership to the NRA some years ago. I figured if they invested it wisely, what I paid could do more good over time than if I gave them yearly dues. I'm looking for an opportunity to upgrade, and if I weren't trying to start a business right now and strapped for cash, I'd be a) buying more guns and b) upgrading via the James Madison thing they're offering. What us gun rights people need are some wealthy benefactors who see the benefits of a well-armed citizen. Patience, offeror, patience....

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bought two life memberships for Mrs Rembrandt and myself...$750 each at the time....not sure what they go for now. Have yearly memberships for the kids....hope to change that.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I pay every year, but it seems as though they are constantly telling me my membership will be coming up for renewal soon and I should pay ahead. I think I am probably paid up for 4-5yrs ahead. Oh well, good cause.

    A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
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  • NOTPOSTALNOTPOSTAL Member Posts: 311 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can become a life member on their extended payment plan. Its $25 a quarter until paid in full at $750, I know because this is what I'm doing now.

    ...from my cold dead fingers!!
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a life membership at $750, and I got money back for being a disabled VET.

    Trinity+++

    "Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."(Proverbs 22:6)
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am an Endowment Member, have been for a while. I upgraded from a life member a few years back when they were having a special offer.
    Occasionally, they have a special offer on Life Memberships, probably to raise more money right away or to boost their memberships, I don't know.
    With so many members now, I don't know if and when they will run any of those programs in the near future. A lot of people * about the NRA, but they do a hell of a lot for the 2nd Addmendment and us gun owners. I stick by them 100%.

    "If All Else Fails, Read The Directions"



    Edited by - bullelk on 06/13/2002 16:37:21
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got my life when I was 21 for a$100.Did the same thing as Bullelk.For a total of $285.I am now a endowment member.Send money a couple of times a year. Sign up frends insted of giving a present,Win-win that way.The numbers count a lot, Not just the money.

    The most important things, Are not things.
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  • KX500KX500 Member Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Life Membership. In the early '90s I paid for a 3 year membership (around $ 80). They mailed me back a few weeks later saying they were raising the life membership from $ 500 to $ 750, but if I acted now I could still get it for $500, and they'd deduct the $80 I already gave and they'd do the payment plan thing. I'm glad I did it.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started as an annual member & jumped to life membership on the installment plan way back . . . don't recall the amount . . . certainly no more than $500. They had a promo in early 90s whereby I could upgrade further & the dif would be donated to one of their deductible funds so it was actually less, so I took it all the way up to benefactor smiling that Klintoon's budget was covering about 25% of it!
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  • texshootertexshooter Member Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I joined in the late 70's. I paid $300.00 for a LIFE membership on the installment plan. A couple years ago, I paid to upgrade to ENDOWMENT member.
    I am also a LIFE member in the Texas State Rifle Asociation.
    I donate through out the year to several pro-gun sites.
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For some reason I have 2 memberships. I have always donated to the interum requests;But this deal with them wanting to indorse our senator, that could have stoped the Brady bill, over a life time member that is running has put a stop to interum donations. The sad part is the NRA has been our only life line between us and them. The next thing we need to do is complain about the "Project-Safe Neighborhood Program" It sounds good but the danger of over zellet deputy U.S.Attorneys will take guns away from lots of non-offenders. We can't take any more.We are fast becomming subjects,not free individuals.The point of all this is the NRA is indorsing this program.

    Helping keep America free: One gun at a time.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was a yearly member on and off for 20 yrs. Got tired of renewing a couple years ago and dug deep for the $750.00 . I'm also a member of Empire State Arms Collectors Assn.

    Woods

    How big a boy are ya?
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not a mathmatician(?) but I know with all dues paid since 1973 I could have gotten a lifetime by now but I just keep plugging along annually. Good organization.
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ANNUAL MEMBER,AS WELL AS A GOA MEMBER CAUSE SOMETIMES THE NRA AINT AS TOUGH AS ID LIKE THEM TO BE

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • FatWoodDogFatWoodDog Member Posts: 90 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Endownment Life Member here -- like "concealedG36" said, I probably contribute $100+ to ILA and whatever else they come up with over the course of a year. I concentrate on helping out the GOA as much as possible now, and the local affiliate - RMGO.org.

    FatWoodDog

    Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice, Doggie..."until you find a Rock!!
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I recently joined. It was $75.00 for three years. Haven't made any donations yet, not sure I will.

    There are no bad guns, only bad people.
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  • Iroquois ScoutIroquois Scout Member Posts: 930 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Endowment Member N.R.A.,Life Member G.O.A.,contribute to both as well as to Neal Knox,plus I VOTE!!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sign up in the three-year membership increments. Every year I am asked by the military to sign up for the Combined Federal Campaign. Anyone receiving a paycheck from Uncle Sam can make donations to a wide array of organizations via a payroll deduction. I used to give $10/month to the NRA via the CFC. I couldn't find the NRA in the CFC catalog this year so I've been giving $10/month to GOA and $10 to another group similar to the ILA.
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Life Member early 80's, it was 300 or 350. Annual member
    Alabama Gun Collectors Assn., and Alabama Rifle & Pistol
    Assn.
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like most started out as a yearly member, decided to go Life Member a couple of years ago for a cost of $750.00. Send off a special donation once or twice a year.

    My biggest complaint about the NRA is their use of 'fear tactics' when attempting to raise additional monies.

    B - BreatheR - RelaxA - AimS - SightS - Squeeze
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