NRA Membership?

[LHSmith]

Designing a range for safety is not rocket science. If you want to keep the range badly enough, visit other ranges that have successfully addressed safety problems and just do it. When one of my local clubs got a visit by the state cops one day concerning a stray bullet into a nearby home - I contacted the NRA about assistance and with all the hoops and $ the club would have to go through JUST to have get them to visit and make recommendations , I knew it would never happen with the real possibility of us loosing the range. I did my own research on-line, found military specs used for military base ranges ( minimum amount of sand/ soil to stop .223 or .308 or .50 BMG rounds, SDZ (surface danger zone= degrees of angle which determines the length of back stop), etc. I enjoyed doing the research and designing and building the safety barriers. I then used that knowledge to build safe backstops at my hunting clubs range.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

I dont know why that machine gun range is even there. Big liability. If you loose Manatee your in trouble.

 

[noload]

Some of us shooters on the adjacent 300yd range, hear ricochets from the 100yd-1000yd go over our heads. I personally think shooting gongs and metal frames on a range with ricochet problems, should get the metal off the range.( A shooting range should have zero tolerance for any ricochets) The range did some voting two days ago and hopefully rid itself of some of the political problems Larry was speaking of.

 

[338dude]

I'll probably catch hell for this but, I would love to see the tax records for all the NRA executives..If you ask me it is just another big business, pulling puppet strings.

If it was all for us and the protection of our gun rights it would be ok but with these Executives making multi million dollar salaries, uh, no thanks.

Just tired of seeing the NRA executives on all expense paid Safari's, and other expensive activities, shooting six figure rifles and shotguns, almost reminds me of Obamas three week Hawaii vacation on us.

I'm tired of the NRA calling me multiple times a day wanting MORE money. I will stay with giving my money to my State Rifle Association.

i have been a nra member for years but i now feel the same as you but can any other organization do as much? let me know so i can support them!