As a long time member of the highest level, where the fuck are they?
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They are working hard on legal cases to protect and extend the rights of gun owners. Their big continuing campaign is to proliferate permitless "constitutional" carry in every state (steadily increasing in number over the recent years). Wayne LaPierre was outsted a year or so ago, after much grumbling by the membership, and new management is in place to straighten up the ship. I'm not sure if legal means are under way to recover any of LaPierre's excessive personal spending. Their training, educational, and historical activities continue. If I recall correctly, President Trump spoke at their annual meeting.
So, the question "Where the fuck are they?" is more a reflection on not having bothered to look, than about any absence of the NRA from the scene.
Speak for yourself.
I have been a Benefactor member for 40 years. I read everything I can find, but feel we get more progress and wins from the GOA group. They just got the $200 NFA tax reduced and the right to get out of state CCW in Calif (if a member of GOA ony) in which I have a home but not residency. All my wins are coming from GOA, not NRA. So I ask again, Where the fuck is the NRA?
Was it the GOA alone, or in concert with the NRA and others? The NRA is currently bringing suit to challenge the constitutional basis of the NFA. In New Jersey, the NRA partnered with the New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate (NJFOS) and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) to persuade municipalities to refund $150 of concealed-carry permit application fee. (So far, two towns have done this.) This is from the September issue of American Rifleman.
Headlines from the NRA-ILA web page:
NRA-ILA Petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NFA Restrictions on Short-Barreled Rifles
Supreme Court Review Sought in NRA-Backed Challenge to California’s Magazine Ban
NRA Takes Fight to Defend the Constitutional Rights of Young Adults to the U.S. Supreme Court
NRA Files Lawsuit Challenging Massachusetts’s “Assault-Style” Firearms Ban
Tenth Circuit Holds New Mexico’s 7-Day Waiting Period Unconstitutional in NRA Case