FredB wrote:
To get a truly national NRA we need to see people joining it nationally, instead of standing on the touchline whinging and waiting for someone else to sort it out.
Fred
I am currently and have been a member for nigh on 30 years and have tried my best with the organisation offering regional help in my area and have never had a response back other than can't do.
So I am not on the sideline whinging, I am a current member who has tried to be active regionally to no avail.
From my experience as a fuly paid up NRA member doing so makes not a jot of difference.
The NRA has a lot of history which reaches right up to today to overcome, it is not a welcoming organisation and difficult to get involved in, I'm not talking about Bisley here which is their trading arm so to speak but the National part,whatever that is.
Just as people have to join the NRA also has to give them some reason to join and being honest about what they do and can do would be a start.
There has to be a very good reason why individual NRA membership is so low out with the Bisley catchment and I would suggest that reason is lack of relevance, that is the key issue that the NRA needs to address and has needed to for all the time I have been a member.
Also I take exception to the Bisley/NRA lovers jumping on people like me who find the NRA wanting and calling us whingers and bashers, if the truth of the matter cannot be allowed to be discussed then that is even more damning for the organisation.
No doubt many shooters are indirectly financially supporting the NRA anyway through their club affiliation fees which is paid for through their club membership fees.
Every shooter has a right to his or her view of our "national" organisations whether they are members or not and are free to express those views here without the NRA lovers calling them names.