I am a card carrying NRA member and proud of it.  The NRA has done and is doing a lot for us Americans to keep our 2nd Amendment rights and I commend them for doing that!  They spend countless hours looking into the next “anti-gun-campaign”, and are quick to see where international decisions might lead to our loss of the right to keep and bear our arms.

BUT, lately, with money being tight everywhere, I have noticed my mail box has been filling up with mailings from the NRA.  Some say my subscription is about to lapse, when in fact it is not due for two more years.  Some are trying to get me to buy insurance, some to buy clothing or some such other stuff.  Some advertising next years Friends of the NRA events and information on the NRA gunning teams etc. etc. etc.

I had to write them about all of this and I was not too pleasant in doing so.  What I said in my email to them was that I wanted them to stop wasting the money I paid for my enrollment in their organization and spend it on more important things like the lobbying and anti gun things.  If I was interested in the NRA gunning team, I can look that up on their website.  Like anything else, it is on their site for me to look at whenever I want to and to send me junk in the mail was not only a waste of postage, it is also a waste of paper and the ink and the manpower to put it all together!  A total 100% waste of my money.  I went so far as to say that they can count on me NOT SUBSCRIBING ever again if they did not so something very soon to address my concerns.

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The sent this response:

Thank you for contacting us.

We send out notices in the fashion that we do because of our organizational structure.  Once a Member has had five consecutive years of Membership they accrue voting rights. We send out the notices because if a Member is late renewing, however slightly, they lose these voting rights. Many Members feel that it is very important to be involved in making the decisions about who runs their NRA.

We do understand that some Members do not wish to receive the amount of renewals that are sent to them. We do have the ability to limit renewal notices, which I have taken the liberty of doing for you.

You will receive three the year your Membership is set to expire.  One will arrive the month before your membership expires, one the month it expires, and one the month after depending on when we receive your payment. I cannot limit your notices so that you only receive one. I also placed you on our limited mailing list. This change will take a few weeks to go into effect. After it does, you should notice a 90% reduction in mail. I hope that you will be satisfied with the adjustments I have made.

We updated your membership profile and placed you on the DO NOT PROMOTE list. This will greatly reduce the amount of correspondence you receive. However, it will not eliminate all correspondence. If a company administers a member benefit, they will have limited access to your membership information. On occasion, they might send you something that the NRA cannot intercept or stop. We cannot guarantee that you will receive no correspondence in the future. However, you will see most if not all additional correspondence stop arriving over the next several weeks.

Thank you very much for your support and please feel free to contact us if you ever need anything else!

Best Regards,

Aaron
NRA Member Communications
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030
www.nra.org
E-mail: membership@nrahq.org
Phone: 1(800)672-3888

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So, I have ranted to them and they have made the good decision to drastically cut back on my mailings.  This will save them some money.  But, why I am letting you know this is you too can contact them with the same issue and perhaps they will cut back even more!  You can do what you want, that is your right and by God don’t let anyone take that away from you.

Bears Butt

Nov. 2011