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From: jkh@jade.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: NRA Internal Politics
Message-ID: <3023@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 13:17:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 13:17:49 1987
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Author: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI <wmartin@almsa-1.arpa>
Article: 4:1


I don't know know about the other NRA members out there, but I WOULD like to
see details on the NRA internal politics posted to the group, not just sent
privately to the person who inquired about it after 20 years outside. I've
been in the NRA for 23 years now (I got my Life Membership as my high-school
graduation present back when they were $100) but all I can base my knowledge
of the NRA internals on is what I read in the Rifleman and what I see in
Knox's (& associates') ads in Shotgun News -- very limited info and nothing
unbiased. I think a lot of this detail is printed in Gun Week, but that
isn't sold on any newsstand I get to around here, nor is it in any library
I know of to peruse back issues, and I haven't had enough incentive to
subscribe to it, so I don't know for sure -- that's just a guess. Anyway,
I really don't know much about this internal power struggle, even having
been a member all along! I know of no source for such info, and would like
to learn all I can about it via this group.

I could have posted the names of the anti-old-guard candidates in the
recent NRA Directors election, as copied off their ad in Shotgun News,
but I didn't for two reasons: 1) I thought the moderator didn't want
such explicitly political postings, and 2) I figured everybody who was
eligible would have voted already by the time I got the info sent in
and it was posted and distributed, so it would have been wasted effort.
Was I wrong? 

(One odd thing was that they did NOT have a complete slate -- their ad
listed fewer names than the number of vacancies to vote for. I voted
for this group and then perused the biographical sketches in the
Rifleman and voted my prejudices for the remainder.)

Regards,
Will Martin
wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA   (on USENET try ...!seismo!wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA )