armaborealis
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https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
If you are not an NRA member, please sign up now. It costs ten bucks for an associate membership (no magazine -- click the "other memberships" middle option tab). If they sell us out, quit in disgust. If you cannot afford ten bucks right now, PM me with your mailing address. I'll spot you the $10 fee if you can't afford it right no (first ten folks that take me up). You can repay me by donating $10 later to a worthy charity or to NRA-ILA (assuming they don't sell us out).
If you are already a member, sign up your spouse, kids, parents, etc. Sign up your shooting or hunting buddy. Sign up your coworkers. You can take action to sign them up if you don't mind covering the ten bucks and they don't mind being signed up. We just gave a gift membership to a family member today. Military and LEO sign up for free under the "Life of Duty" program.
I am also a member of some other 2A organizations (just joined a few!
). SAF is key for the courts and does great work, but they're the "defense game" to try and save us at the 11th hour from a draconian bill that's been passed. We want to stop anything sooner than that. GOA talks a big game and is uncompromising but has little influence on the congress. NRA is what we've got, and NRA has stated that they are going to resist everything.
I know some folks complain and moan about how that are collaborators or whatever but they are the best we've got and thus far they are showing backbone in this fight. If you were sitting on the fence waiting for clear messaging from NRA, we now have it. The more we back them, the more resources they have to hammer Congress and take the case to the American people, and the less likely an unpleasant compromise will be required. Moreover, the $10 membership fee goes to the EDUCATION arm of NRA, not the lobbying arm (that is NRA-ILA). So your money is really going to go to help train and educate some of the many, many new shooters who have recently purchased firearms. That is worthy in and of itself, beyond the political benefits of joining.
Only 100K new members have signed up in the last few weeks. That's NOTHING. NOTHING. Mayors Against Illegal Guns claim 400K new members in the same time frame. We need to make a big statement, QUICKLY, to firm up wavering support in the Congress. A big statement would be moving from around four million members to five, and then zooming to ten million. If every member signed up someone else now, we'd do it in a week.
Senate Legislation starts getting pushed on 22 January, including Dianne Feinstein's assault weapons ban bill. The State of the Union Address will occur on 12 February, and I would bet money that Pres Obama will give front row seats to a bunch of murdered kid's parents in the audience and demand more gun control that WILL impact you in some way, even if it takes a bit more chipping away before they get to your shotgun (destructive device), lever action 30-30 (armor piercing rifle), or scoped bolt action deer rifle (military style sniper rifle). This is an existential push to break the back of the pro-2A movement. Short of writing your legislators, joining NRA is probably the easiest thing you can do for the cause in this dire time.
TEN BUCKS -- and if you truly need help, I will cover you for it. It is that important.
https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
If you are not an NRA member, please sign up now. It costs ten bucks for an associate membership (no magazine -- click the "other memberships" middle option tab). If they sell us out, quit in disgust. If you cannot afford ten bucks right now, PM me with your mailing address. I'll spot you the $10 fee if you can't afford it right no (first ten folks that take me up). You can repay me by donating $10 later to a worthy charity or to NRA-ILA (assuming they don't sell us out).
If you are already a member, sign up your spouse, kids, parents, etc. Sign up your shooting or hunting buddy. Sign up your coworkers. You can take action to sign them up if you don't mind covering the ten bucks and they don't mind being signed up. We just gave a gift membership to a family member today. Military and LEO sign up for free under the "Life of Duty" program.
I am also a member of some other 2A organizations (just joined a few!
). SAF is key for the courts and does great work, but they're the "defense game" to try and save us at the 11th hour from a draconian bill that's been passed. We want to stop anything sooner than that. GOA talks a big game and is uncompromising but has little influence on the congress. NRA is what we've got, and NRA has stated that they are going to resist everything.I know some folks complain and moan about how that are collaborators or whatever but they are the best we've got and thus far they are showing backbone in this fight. If you were sitting on the fence waiting for clear messaging from NRA, we now have it. The more we back them, the more resources they have to hammer Congress and take the case to the American people, and the less likely an unpleasant compromise will be required. Moreover, the $10 membership fee goes to the EDUCATION arm of NRA, not the lobbying arm (that is NRA-ILA). So your money is really going to go to help train and educate some of the many, many new shooters who have recently purchased firearms. That is worthy in and of itself, beyond the political benefits of joining.
Only 100K new members have signed up in the last few weeks. That's NOTHING. NOTHING. Mayors Against Illegal Guns claim 400K new members in the same time frame. We need to make a big statement, QUICKLY, to firm up wavering support in the Congress. A big statement would be moving from around four million members to five, and then zooming to ten million. If every member signed up someone else now, we'd do it in a week.
Senate Legislation starts getting pushed on 22 January, including Dianne Feinstein's assault weapons ban bill. The State of the Union Address will occur on 12 February, and I would bet money that Pres Obama will give front row seats to a bunch of murdered kid's parents in the audience and demand more gun control that WILL impact you in some way, even if it takes a bit more chipping away before they get to your shotgun (destructive device), lever action 30-30 (armor piercing rifle), or scoped bolt action deer rifle (military style sniper rifle). This is an existential push to break the back of the pro-2A movement. Short of writing your legislators, joining NRA is probably the easiest thing you can do for the cause in this dire time.
TEN BUCKS -- and if you truly need help, I will cover you for it. It is that important.
https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
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