On 12/28/2019 3:01 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 2:28:42 PM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 12/28/2019 11:57 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 12/28/2019 1:45 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 7:31:26 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:36:40 -0800 (PST), wrote:

The NRA has record high membership and they manage to spend close to a
half billion a year on causes and candidates so rumors of their demise
by people like Madcow are greatly exaggerated, grounded in wishful
thinking.

Really? As far as I've been able to determine, they've been claiming
"five million" or "nearly five million" or "5.5 million" for about
eight years. Analysis of their IRS filings suggests that much of
their income (and income growth) nowadays is from donations rather
than dues.

My husband used to be a member, but dropped his membership because
the organization was getting "crazy". He still shoots fairly often.

I suspect the NRA will eventually succumb to demographic changes,
despite the jump in membership they get every time there's a
mass shooting and folks start talking about gun control.

Cindy Hamilton


The NRA is a Us vs. Them situation. They want zero control. If they
took a stance and did something to keep lawful guns out of the hands of
bad guys they would be looked at much differently.

otoh, given freedom of rein, the left would try to outlaw several of my
firearms. No, they're not tricked out M4geries with bump stocks -- they
are .22LR semiautomatics like those I've been shooting since I graduated
from a single shot .22 over 60 years ago.

Several of our guns would be outlawed as well.

The problem with Them is most are pig ignorant about firearms. It's like
having a discussion about snakes with someone who is scared ****less by
snakes. Most snakes are beneficial. Even the poisonous ones have their
place in the ecology.

I know, I know. When they say "automatic weapon" I always ask "semi-auto
or full auto?" and they never can answer the question. Even after I
explain the difference, it's like talking to the dog.

Cindy Hamilton


I see the same things myself. There are tons of falsehoods that have
been spread by the anti-gunners. They even invent names like "cop
killer bullets" to scare the ignorant. For them to say the NRA wants
zero control is downright stupid. They do not want guns in the hands of
the wrong people or have them miss-used. One of their top goals is the
promotion of firearm safety.

I've had a semi-automatic Remington 1100 shotgun for over 50 years that
I have shot trap and skeet with, done all sorts of upland and waterfowl
hunting and even deer hunting with. Hunting rules here limit it to
three rounds so it is plugged but even then with adequate tags I've
doubled on deer more than half a dozen times. This kind of shotgun
would be banned today if the current anti-gunners got their way.