Membership is declining at the gun right’s group as it also faces financial difficulties. Critics say the future looks bleak.

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    It’d be one thing if they were only opposed by people for more gun control, but they aren’t even really good at their core mission. All they do is simp for the GOP, even when doing so runs counter to their stated agenda.

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      The NRA is a marketing team for gun manufacturers, and what sells guns is fear of gun bans. The NRA does everything in their power to fuel those fears.

      Pro and anti gun alike hate them. It’s mostly just boomers keeping them going.

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        Exactly. I belonged to the NRA way back when they were a safety and information organization. They began to sell high priced commemorative hunting guns, then commemorative military guns. Soon they started selling military style guns like the M1 Garand rifle and the M1 carbine. I quit. Their push continued into modern M16s while simultaneously pushing scare articles to convince people of dangers so great that they would need buy military style weapons. The NRA degenerated into a money and greed operation that became the opposite of its origins intent.