Originally Posted by
M1orNone
Sent money to the NRA for years. Got the hat, got the magazine, and played along, religiously. Didn't mind the calls, didn't mind the mass amounts of mailings.
Our range was 100% legal, had a million dollar insurance policy, and was set up in about the safest spot a range can be, a gravel pit surrounded on three sides by 50 feet of decomposed granite. At the moment of truth, when we were being threatened with lawsuits by the low-crawling, nutless, we-moved-here-from-out-of-state, now-do-what-we-do-or-else "neighbors", who just farted off state law (knowing full well we couldn't financially do anything in defense) and trying to keep it going past the 50 years it had already been going, we tried to get help.
Made a call to the NRA, in pure desperation, trying to keep it going. No other option at the time.
You know what their response was, in the proverbial nutshell? "LOL! You want us to do WHAT? Figure it out for yourselves".
There is no range now, and probably won't be again.
Again, at the moment of truth, in our hour of need, thinking they (NRA's Civil Rights Defense Fund) would help defend us, or at least attempt to help, and prove to the anti-freedom knobs surrounding us that they were WRONG, they laughed and walked away. Call me a "rockhead" if you must, but I still resent it, and they won't get another damn dime out of me again.
We didn't expect or demand anything out of them. We just hoped beyond hope that they would at least say "yeah, we'll see what we can do! Thanks for letting us know!" Not even that much.....