Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

The NRA is giving FREE 1-yr memberships to everyone who wants to join.
They are trying to build up their membership to fight pending
Legislation that impacts our right to keep and bear arms.

It is very important that anti-gun congressmen see how many people they
will have to fight to get their legislation through.

https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

This can include spouses and children also.

We're definitely with you on this one! I hope that their Free Membership Drive results in many new members and many successes in Washington.

See also this post, which is a Sticky under General Discussions

general-discussion/nra-membership-1st-year-free-t311.html

I'm stickying this post under National Discussions as well.

It's the real deal. I was up for renewal and filled one out for the wife and I. I wasn't sure if it "took" and called today to get us the
$10 associate membership (std membership w/o the magazine) and to get us on the "Don't send all the offers" list. The guy checked our accounts and we were good for another year already (the free sign up offered here) and we just need to do the Associated membership next year.

Sweet I thought.

i just took advantage of that offer, thanks.

I had to parse the link to get it to work. https://www.nrahq.org/FreedomAssoc/default.asp
I sent the link to all my email contacts on the basis that "even if you don't like guns there might come a time you are happy to have a heavily armed neighbor who likes you"

props to SELFDEFENSE for being on the ball and sharing good info

Great post, thanks for sharing this info. Just saved me some money.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I may be...but I've been hesitant in joining the NRA simply because I don't see an active role being taken to secure our rights.

I understand the lobbing and all, but I'm dead against giving politicians money just to play the games and not getting anything real in return.

What I would like to see and I don't think I am is suits against States and Federal government PRIOR to someone being arrested and needing representation. Some of these regulations should fought in the court room based on constitutionality.

If I am wrong, please set me straight. I put my money where I see it's needed AND used wisely. Congress is broken and I won't subsidize a broken system!

cyras21 wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, I may be...but I've been hesitant in joining the NRA simply because I don't see an active role being taken to secure our rights.

I understand the lobbing and all, but I'm dead against giving politicians money just to play the games and not getting anything real in return.

What I would like to see and I don't think I am is suits against States and Federal government PRIOR to someone being arrested and needing representation. Some of these regulations should fought in the court room based on constitutionality.

If I am wrong, please set me straight. I put my money where I see it's needed AND used wisely. Congress is broken and I won't subsidize a broken system!

It's a FREE sign up. Keyword being FREE. Spend the money saved on a vet fund like I did... or beer like I also did.

The only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington

http://gunowners.org/

I'm not sure I understand the logic behind a free membership from the NRA's perspective. The reason we all joined was to fund the fight for our rights, no? What real benefit do they get from it?

I used to be an NRA member for 6 years during the Clinton administration. I gave religiously to help the NRA fight the constant attempts by the Democrats to destroy the 2nd Amendment. Then one day, I received a VHS video tape in the mail from NRA. It was all about how our freedom was secured by our right to own firearms from the Revolutionary War to modern times. There was no note with the video. Well, I put it away and forgot about it. A month later, I received a rather hateful letter from NRA saying that I was supposed to either pay them $25 for the tape, or return it to them immediately. I did neither. I informed them that they sent the tape to my address with no reason for sending it, and I told them I didn't like their surly attitude and to take my name off their mailing list. They complied, and I don't get anymore of their propaganda. The propaganda got to be so much that every time I'd read it, I'd get angry over what they said the government was going to do to my rights. I hated to read it. It was so bad. Also, a neighbor of mine, a life time member received a phone call from NRA urging him to rejoin. When he informed the caller that he was a life member, he was told that all lifetime memberships were being rescinded because the organization needed all the new money they could get, and he wasn't rejoining and supplying them any new funds. He no longer has anything to do with NRA, and yes, they stopped all of his magazines, but not the propaganda.

I will look at this offer, but with caution, knowing the problems I had with them, previously.

Bicycleman wrote:I used to be an NRA member for 6 years during the Clinton administration. I gave religiously to help the NRA fight the constant attempts by the Democrats to destroy the 2nd Amendment. Then one day, I received a VHS video tape in the mail from NRA. It was all about how our freedom was secured by our right to own firearms from the Revolutionary War to modern times. There was no note with the video. Well, I put it away and forgot about it. A month later, I received a rather hateful letter from NRA saying that I was supposed to either pay them $25 for the tape, or return it to them immediately. I did neither. I informed them that they sent the tape to my address with no reason for sending it, and I told them I didn't like their surly attitude and to take my name off their mailing list. They complied, and I don't get anymore of their propaganda. The propaganda got to be so much that every time I'd read it, I'd get angry over what they said the government was going to do to my rights. I hated to read it. It was so bad. Also, a neighbor of mine, a life time member received a phone call from NRA urging him to rejoin. When he informed the caller that he was a life member, he was told that all lifetime memberships were being rescinded because the organization needed all the new money they could get, and he wasn't rejoining and supplying them any new funds. He no longer has anything to do with NRA, and yes, they stopped all of his magazines, but not the propaganda.

I will look at this offer, but with caution, knowing the problems I had with them, previously.

I had a similar but not so serious issue with them in the first 6 months of my membership. They sent me a DVD from their "self defense pistol" collection and in the package it just said something along the lines of "here's a complimentary DVD from our self defense series, if you like it return $xx.xx as continue receiving them, otherwise keep the DVD as a free gift with no obligation to return it" and then every 2 weeks for 3 months I got a letter saying it was my last chance to return the DVD and in small print amongst all the other mumbo jumbo it said "if you don't want to continue the series there is no obligation to return the DVD" as if they were hoping I wouldnt see it and they would scare me into sending the money. I didnt even bother calling to complain. Instead, I held on to all the correspondence and hoped they would draft an unauthorized amount from my account but they didn't and all the letters and even future spam stoPped. I haven't gotten a piece of NRA junk mail in a few months now. I have no problem giving $25 a year for a membership but that's all they are getting out of me. I belong to the NRA and VCDL and I will only donate to the VCDL.

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Another thing that concerns me about this free membership offer is whether NRA intends to keep their membership rolls secret. Back during the Clinton Administration, the BATF tried to coerce Wayne LaPierre to surrender the names of all members. Wayne refused and cited that he would go to jail before he surrendered that list. With the way the present administration is ramping up their anti-gun agenda, I wonder what NRA intends to do with that list and also what they gain? That is a lot of $25 membership fees lost. Nothing is truly free, especially considering what NRA pulled on YoungGunVA and me.