Please take time to vote -- NRA board

[Bill in Oregon]

To the NRA lifers and other members here, please take time to vote for board of directors members. Let's preserve the positive changes in our beloved NRA and keep the organization moving forward in relevance, effectiveness and responsiveness to the needs and wishes of the membership.

[Eddie Southgate]

'They lost any relevance they had for me in the 80's . Haven't been a member since , I'd as soon join AARP and become a Democrat.

[bmtshooter]

Yes indeed. Need to get that train back on the tracks.

[AJMD429]

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I was apathetic for a while like that but then realized that it is a big train That is going to keep moving in one direction or another whether we participate or not, and the only way to get it back on the tracks is if we start pushing.

I think what happened was the 'rugged independent' stereotype (most of us here likely) tends to be libertarian and conservative and because we don't like to boss other people around in exchange for them not bossing us around, we just took it for granted that the NRA would have our interest in mind. Of course like happens in a lot of places in the business world and elsewhere, The liberals who love to boss everybody around started infiltrating, and pretty soon the NRA was just another business cozying up for government grants and trying to sell stuff.

So those are the reasons we actually SHOULD become active and reclaim control over the organization. Otherwise it's not just going to go away, but it's going to become malignant again, or just a Fudd organization.

[Bill in Oregon]

Doc, I don't think it was liberals that were the problem. It was plain old rot, starting with the grifter La Pierre and a compliant board of sycophants.
Eddie. Let's make the NRA relevant again.

[Ysabel Kid]

Doc, I don't think it was liberals that were the problem. It was plain old rot, starting with the grifter La Pierre and a compliant board of sycophants.
Eddie. Let's make the NRA relevant again.

+1 Bill. And it was a big shame. They are still dealing with the aftermath. Despite the issues, I am proud to be a Benefactor Life. I became a Life member when I first started my professional career, using the $25/quarter approach (or maybe per month - that was almost 40 years ago!). Then started upgrading the same way. I'd wait for an offer to pay off the balance at a discount and do so. Then did the same with Y2K to get him his life membership, which had had by the time he was 10 years old. It is still the oldest civil rights organization in the country. Every good gun owner/enthusiast we add strengthens the organization.

[Bullard4075]

As a Life member my problem is not voting but not knowing who to NOT vote for.

[samsi]

I was an annual member but let it lapse. It seems there was always plenty of internal feuding and allegations of corruption. I think most members of old became aware of something rotten when Neal Knox departed, but it certainly came to a head during the Wayne debacle.

That said I'm optimistic about the organization's current path, I should probably join up again.

[marlinman93]

As a Life member I'm also voting. I wont vote for anyone who was on the Board when LaPierre reigned and destroyed the NRA. If they're not fresh blood they wont get my vote. My feeling is anyone who got the boot during LaPierre for questioning him is great by me; but if they stood by afraid to challenge his abuses of power I don't ever want them.

[JB]

I let my membership expire because I was tired of Wayne and his cronies. What I hear, even though Wayne is gone, some his followers and family are still in prominent positions. If I hear they ever get the NRA straightened up, I'll rejoin.

[vancelw]

As a Life member my problem is not voting but not knowing who to NOT vote for.

Same here. Most people tend to vote by name recognition, and that's how dynasties endure.

But we can't sit back and wait for the ship to right itself. We need to vote it down the right path.

I would also like my monthly print magazine back. Never wanted digital.

[EdinCT]

I just reupped for 5 years with hope that they get back on mission. But I also have no idea who is good and who is bad on the ballot. I did tell them no extra funds while Wayne was still in house.

[marlinman93]

I would also like my monthly print magazine back. Never wanted digital.

I'm still ticked that the NRA stopped sending me monthly print magazines! I used to keep my magazines for future reference if there was an interesting article. Now it's going to be a PITA to go back and read articles later.

[mos]

I did business in the early oughts with Bill Bachenberg, back when he was still running the data center company he founded, DBSi, in the Lehigh Valley of PA.

I distinctly remember him sitting across my desk from me with his second in command, Bob Hicks, in Center City Philadelphia, when I spotted his shoulder-holster carry piece (PPK/S, IIRC) and we ended up having a great conversation about guns and shooting sports. I think that was right around the time he founded his clays course, LV Sporting Clays. I ended up signing a DR contract with them, and actually took an office in their Bethlehem location to work out of a couple of days a week for a few years after that.

Anyway, point is I know him (a little bit, at least) and I can tell you he is a good and ethical man, and an excellent businessman. If anyone can be successful reforming the NRA, it’s Bill.

I’m jaded and skeptical too, but still a member, and now an optimistic one.

Cheers, y’all!


mos

[coyote nose]

I still get a print magazine. I didn't know some don't.
I have ZERO idea who to vote for. Who is old guard, who is new, etc. Heck, I didn't quite understand what the 'Cincinnati revolt' back in the 70s or 80s was about until recently. Just no news on any of this I can find. I do miss the magazine the way it used to be. Have issues going back to the 30s and LOVE rereading them. The current ones are really not much compared to those issues but then again, I am a walnut and blued steel kind of gun guy and time has passed me by.

[Bill in Oregon]

I tried not to vote for anyone who had been on the board or leadership when grifter Wayne was stealing from the organization. I wish our man from San Antonio -- Ollie North-- was still in the picture but he is 82, bless his heart.

[Ray]

I just realized (as is noted above) that the Feb. 2026 N.R.A. American Rifleman is the last print issue. Digital from now on. Most disappointing.

I had read on other forums that the issue with the board member ballots inserted was said to be the last physical print edition but I did not quite believe it until I found my copy in amongst the recent accumulated junk mail.

Sad development.....

[vancelw]

I'll have to go back and read it (when I calm down in a few weeks) but i think their plan is 4 quarterly print magazines and digital the rest of the time.