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  • mag360
    Calguns Addict
    • Jun 2009
    • 5198

    require nra membership to do business

    Just floating an idea. My gun range requires membership in the nra to be a member of the range. How about having to show card or member number to do business with an FFL. I am just recently realizing how many gun owners, even Calgunners who are not members in our largest most unified national voice. It is upsetting and pathetic to me.
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  • #2
    CifaldiPrecision
    Vendor/Retailer
    • Aug 2012
    • 1806

    You may do a lot better by saying you'll pay half their fees for a year long membership if they sign up with the purchase of a firearm. Otherwise they may just leave and purchase elsewhere.


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    Brett Cifaldi
    Specializing in 1911s
    Cifaldi Precision

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    • #3
      FORD4LIFE
      Banned
      • Dec 2012
      • 339

      Because the NRA is holier than the holy?
      Maybe some don't want to be apart of this now bureaucratic organization

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      • #4
        blakdawg
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2008
        • 1503

        That seems like a good way to scare away noobs who are just starting to get interested in guns - let them start shooting, get acquainted with reality instead of Hollywood/anti-gun BS, then the NRA membership starts to make sense.

        NRA membership, for a lot of people, is a mixed blessing - I think it's important (I am a life member) but I disagree with a lot of what they do, and strongly dislike a lot of the politicians they support. I think the right thing to do - especially now - is for people to hold their nose and join anyway, but it's a lot easier to make that argument once someone gets good and happy with their guns and with shooting and good and disgusted with the idiotic anti's.

        What if you offered a discount for NRA members?
        "[T]he liberties of the American people [are] dependent upon the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box . . without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country." -- Frederick Douglass (1892)

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        • #5
          safewaysecurity
          Calguns Addict
          • Jun 2010
          • 6166

          Don't think it would be legal. Violation of the first amendment and 2nd amendment.
          Originally posted by cudakidd
          I want Blood for Oil. Heck I want Blood for Oil over hand wringing sentiment!
          ^

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          • #6
            Eldraque
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2012
            • 1984

            Originally posted by FORD4LIFE
            Because the NRA is holier than the holy?
            Maybe some don't want to be apart of this now bureaucratic organization
            The U.S. government is made up of the two most powerful bureaucratic organizations in history.

            Until something happens to de-throne the two party system, you have to fight fire with fire.

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            • #7
              FORD4LIFE
              Banned
              • Dec 2012
              • 339

              Originally posted by Eldraque

              Until something happens to de-throne the two party system, you have to fight fire with fire.
              I don't

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              • #8
                chickenfried
                Calguns Addict
                • Oct 2005
                • 7160

                If the shopper felt like joining the NRA they would probably be a member already. if the shopper doesn't feel like joining the NRA they'll just go to another store that doesn't make them jump through hoops to spend their money.

                Now a discount for NRA members...
                Originally posted by victor1echo
                Hollywood is satan!!!!
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                • #9
                  tenpercentfirearms
                  Vendor/Retailer
                  • Apr 2005
                  • 13007

                  Or hand out NRA literature and offer them a discount if they join the NRA today.
                  www.tenpercentfirearms.com was open from 2005 until 2018. I now own Westside Arms.

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                  • #10
                    MontClaire
                    Veteran Member
                    • Feb 2009
                    • 4859

                    Very stupid idea. ( from a business side point of view )
                    Last edited by MontClaire; 12-22-2012, 2:48 PM.

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                    • #11
                      strangerdude
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 1762

                      They won't get my business.

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                      • #12
                        kemasa
                        I need a LIFE!!
                        • Jun 2005
                        • 10706

                        As a business, you can make any requirements you want, unless it violates the law, such as refusing to do a PPT.

                        I give a discount to members of firearm rights organizations. As long as it is a firearm rights organization, I don't care which one. I don't consider the CRPA to be a firearm rights organization due to their budget and other issues.

                        This encourages people to join the organization of their choice or I get more money. It is a win either way to me.
                        Kemasa.
                        False signature edited by Paul: Banned from the FFL forum due to being rude and insulting. Doing this continues his abuse.

                        Don't tell someone to read the rules he wrote or tell him that he is wrong.

                        Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig. - Robert A. Heinlein

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                        • #13
                          halifax
                          Veteran Member
                          • Oct 2005
                          • 4440

                          Don't CA gun buyers put up with enough as it is? I'd never require it but I do have all the literature and applications available and in plain sight. I'd only encourage it.
                          Jim


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                          • #14
                            choprzrul
                            Calguns Addict
                            • Oct 2009
                            • 6544

                            I like this, but implemented a little differently.

                            My range ( SLOSA )has a yearly membership fee of $50.

                            I contend that they should raise that membership fee to $75 with the option to check off a "NRA Membership Request" checkbox.

                            If the member does not check the box, the range will donate that $25 to SAF, CGF, etc.

                            For those people who just come to shoot, but not become yearly members, the person working the window should ask if they wish to donate a few $$$.

                            .

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                            • #15
                              Toby's Tactical
                              Member
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 241

                              I think the best is not to require membership but offer it and a discount if you wish. I recommend options such as membership info for GSSF and NSSF and any other shooting organizations you can find.
                              Toby's Tactical
                              07FFL/02SOT
                              Mountain View, CA

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