NRA Members

[fdshuster]

One of the local clubs I belong to requires NRA membership before you are accepted as a member. If not a member when you apply to join you are given a membership form. Do not fill it out & join? No membership. And, each year when the new years dues are paid you must provide proof of current membership, so no one can drop out after being accepted in the club.

 

[jnyfeler]

Recently upgraded to Patron member.

Jeff

 

[19zip]

Life Member.
NRA is our lobby for our Rights....

 

[4xforfun]

I didn't buy a life membership, but for different reasons. Our golf course offered lifetime memberships..way to cheap, by the way, and then 20 years later we are Short of money due to lack of PAYING members.

I feel that the lifetime membership to the NRA is TO CHEAP. Eventually they will have zillions of members, and very few of them are actually paying in membership dues. That very well may be happining now, because every time I check my mail I see them asking for donations for this and that. So, I go year to year.

Jut my thoughts, right or wrong.

Tod

 

[ryanjay11]

You would need to pay your annual membership for 28 years just to cover what guys that stepped up to the Life membership paid. When you start figuring in multiple levels, you are talking about 100 years or more of dues.

The life membership is not cheap, nor is it bad for the NRA. Nowhere does it say that you can no longer make contributions once you become a life member. That is just a really odd way of looking at it.

I'm glad that you are a member, but you really might want to reconsider becoming a lifer.

 

[udiablo]

Life Member (soon an Endowment Member). Strongly encourage you, and all of you others that can afford to, please do it now.

 

[shootnjunky]

Endowment member.

From time to time you can become a life member for only $300

 

[Damfino]

Life member - A good investment.

 

[timberwolf64]

I am a lifer

 

[pikespeakgoat]

Life member since 2004. I had always done the 1, 3 or 5 year stints beginning in my teen years, then I finally figured what I had spent versus the cost of the Life membership.

 

[robrepik]

Life member for at least fifteen years . Good idea.

 

[weewilly]

Life member for a lo--ng time, now endowment member.

 

[dickn52]

I do the 5 year thing as well. Not sure if I'll be around long enough to make a lifetime membership worthwhile.

 

[savageshooter86]

What are these endowment levels? I looked on the sure ave not seeing these other things y'all have mentioned

Thanks

 

[Albany Mountain]

Life since 1970

 

[jjbduke2004]

Endowment here.

What are these endowment levels? I looked on the sure ave not seeing these other things y'all have mentioned

Thanks

NRA awards higher membership levels for increased donations.

http://membership.nrahq.org/forms/superlife.asp

A life membership is, nominally, $1000. Give the NRA an extra $1k and you are upgraded to Endowment. Another $1500 past that for Patron. Add another $1500 for Benefactor. Usually it's just bragging rights, but there are some recognitions given at the Annual Meeting.

Whether you paid $300, $500, $750, or $1000, you are credit with $1000, so you would only need to contribute another $1000 to reach Endowment.

And there are occasionally "deals." I only paid $200 for my Endowment upgrade on top of my $500 life membership.

 

[MrMajestic]

Life here however with my genetic heart condition I think they made out! ;D Next to, or equal to(Sometimes?), money spent on the wedding ring for my wife! ;D

 

[jnyfeler]

I didn't buy a life membership, but for different reasons. Our golf course offered lifetime memberships..way to cheap, by the way, and then 20 years later we are Short of money due to lack of PAYING members.

I would characterize it as a lack of managing money by the golf course. Life memberships are priced such that a given member's life membership dues, when invested, yields more money annually than the annual membership fee would have. That's why the life membership is offered, because it's financially advantageous to the offering organization. However, if those life member dues are raided -- a la the Social Security Trust Fund -- and spent instead of invested, well things go to hell in a hand basket as we've seen in the case of Social Security.

Jeff

 

[hoz53]

I've been a life member since the 70s. When I was in my early 20s I thought there would be a lot more restrictions by now on our rights to own firearms than there are. I think the NRA deserves much of the credit for that. Just Do It! I really should upgrade soon

 

[VaniB]

Been a Life Member since 1976. It's the best way to be a member. If you renew every year, that activity will keep your name and address fresh on their suckers list, and the phony surveys and emergency bulletins requesting your donation will NEVER end. Here is a photo of the donation requests I had accumulated from them in just a single 12 month period. It gets old after 25-30 years.



Become a life member to add to their roster. And when you do donate peridically to the NRA, do as I have done and send an MO to them anonymously without divulging your name or address. Just write on a slip of paper that you are NOT a corportation so that they can accept the donation.