ARshooter,
See:
1) The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) at
http://www.saf.org/ and
2) The Gunowners of America (GOA) at
http://www.gunowners.org/.
My preference is GOA. I am NRA Life and GOA Life. These days, and this is only in my humble opinion, GOA is by far the most aggressive in taking a "no compromise" position in RKBA and the survival of the Second Amendment. I am fiddling with my allowance to join JPFO and SAF.
GOA does not have the membership the NRA does, but if they did, this issue would be closer to being settled instead of a running battle with no end in sight.
Compromising your principles is not the same thing as negotiating a political position based on those principles. I think the present leadership of the NRA misses the distinction. Their arrogance is a little difficult to miss.
Have you been to nra.org lately? Go and try to find a list of the state grassroot orgs like JD is asking for. Let me know if you find it.
Then go to gunowners.org. Just look around. Then email me or come back to this thread and tell me and everyone else here which one you think is member-oriented. Which one has all, and I mean ALL, the signs of a bureaucracy disconnected from its roots.
Neal Knox, Howard Fezell and Leroy Pyle have cooled their criticism of the NRA leadership somewhat, at least in public. I wish they hadn't. Their websites no longer contain the fiery discussions they did only a few months back. Just wait, NRA annual elections are due soon. The shenanigans of the Executive Committee at those open national meetings is not to be believed. Follow it if you can.
Regards,
Sensop
Long Live Rock'n'Roll!