I don't know either, but I hope that it can. If not, then at most the typical member is out $35 a year to keep their membership active for a couple of years.
The NRA has rebuilt itself before. I do think it's really a question of the 2020 election right now. If there had been an AM we might have seen a push to change the BoD, but I'm thinking Wayne will take his Golden Parachute and bail after the 2020 elections.
The NRA as a whole is still a good and worthwhile organization, just for the boots on the ground stuff they do. It's the top leadership and the board that have treating it like their own private money tree, and those are the folks that need to go.
We'll also have to see what happens with the NY 'investigation'. This was a woman who ran for state AG on 'breaking up' the NRA, which (foolishly) is still chartered in NY. And they aren't safe in their 'home' state of VA anymore either, where their HQ is located.
If the NRA does collapse though it will be a disaster at the national level. When it comes to Congress, they are the only game in town. To build a new national lobbying organization would be difficult, since the NRA had the numbers and that's what politicians care about.
If that comes to pass we'll be dependent on the courts, which thanks to the SAF and local groups have been making pretty good progress. But court cases take years to settle, while bad laws only take days to pass.
Beech all you want about how bump-stocks turned out, but the NRA kept much worse laws from even being discussed at the federal level by kicking the bump-stock can down the road until the initial, post-Vegas furor had died down.
That's what we need at the national level, and what we'll lose if we can't fix the NRA to the point where people want to be members again.
The NRA has rebuilt itself before. I do think it's really a question of the 2020 election right now. If there had been an AM we might have seen a push to change the BoD, but I'm thinking Wayne will take his Golden Parachute and bail after the 2020 elections.
The NRA as a whole is still a good and worthwhile organization, just for the boots on the ground stuff they do. It's the top leadership and the board that have treating it like their own private money tree, and those are the folks that need to go.
We'll also have to see what happens with the NY 'investigation'. This was a woman who ran for state AG on 'breaking up' the NRA, which (foolishly) is still chartered in NY. And they aren't safe in their 'home' state of VA anymore either, where their HQ is located.
If the NRA does collapse though it will be a disaster at the national level. When it comes to Congress, they are the only game in town. To build a new national lobbying organization would be difficult, since the NRA had the numbers and that's what politicians care about.
If that comes to pass we'll be dependent on the courts, which thanks to the SAF and local groups have been making pretty good progress. But court cases take years to settle, while bad laws only take days to pass.
Beech all you want about how bump-stocks turned out, but the NRA kept much worse laws from even being discussed at the federal level by kicking the bump-stock can down the road until the initial, post-Vegas furor had died down.
That's what we need at the national level, and what we'll lose if we can't fix the NRA to the point where people want to be members again.