This year I upgraded my membership in the NRA to life member. I also check the boxes at Brownells and Midway to donate to the NRA. I'm getting old but in my 52 years (10+ on gun forums) I've seen some bone headed self centered attitudes held by many rank and file gun nuts. By our very nature we're rugged individualists, and many of us are just plain cussed at best and throughly self-centered and antisocial at worst. And of course there are those that are just plain cheap. I've seen way too many take the "that's your state, and I don't give a rat's tail about what happens in your state" view. And others take a "I hunt and don't give a rat's tail if they take your black rifle" view. Most take the "I ain't sending no money to the NRA" view. They justify it by saying that the NRA didn't toe their line 100% or sent them (horrors!) a mailer asking for a donation. So they "punish" the NRA by starving them of the funds that they need to fight for us - I think of them as Sara Brady's best friends. Many among us allowed things to get this bad because the antis were smart enough to take our rights a bite at a time while our "ain't my problem" types snored and scoffed and cheapoed out of investing $35 a year. I'll continue donate whenever I have a few dollars to spare.