What is the total number of NRA members? Of that number, how many are life members? Putting aside the life member numbers, will represent the year-to-year income generated by non-life membership. Now, of the life members, how is their dues spent? Is it invested for future income?
This is an extremely simplistic post, made to show that the NRA can win this battle, but lose the war, by ending up as an empty shell, imploding under the weight of ordinary and extraordinary costs, with not enough revenue streams to exist.