I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Here at Pistol-Training.com headquarters we have been relaxing and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. No doubt someone heard that I wanted to continue riding my motorcycles for a bit longer this year and was kind enough to make it happen.
I needed a break from writing, and these past weeks were the first “vacation” I have taken since resuming Todd’s work on the blog. It has been nice but it is time to get back to writing, so I think the time off did its job. For the holiday’s, the NRA sent me a gift. I have been waiting for my High Master card to show up for over a year and when I saw the letter from the NRA, I thought it might be here. Actually, I had given it no thought whatsoever, so when I saw it was a classification card, I was surprised and slightly stoked.
When I opened the letter, this is what I found.
Not only did they get my classification wrong, they got my address wrong and amazingly, they also got my division wrong. I have never shot anything but Production Optics in a sanctioned match, but I guess Production Rimfire is close enough for the NRA. Amazing, but it gets better. I don’t normally use this space to run down things that I don’t like, but notice the box on the card that says to contact them immediately if anything is wrong. At the bottom of the card, under my tasty chocolate treats, you can see a blacked out rectangle. It looks like a national security redaction to me, lol. Under that black box is the contact info for the NRA.
I assume they changed the contact info and didn’t want people to try and contact them at an incorrect email or phone number. Yet they didn’t include any updated contact info. And they wonder why no one thinks they’re doing a good job.
I am continually grieved and disappointed by our current NRA. We once had a truly great organization. Sadly Wayne’s tenure ran us into the ground and we lost a lot of good and dedicated people. I continue to be a Life Benefactor Member and support our foundational principals. I hope we can somehow pull ourselves back up from our bootstraps. We need a singular strong pro Second Amendment organization. The NRA is still our best framework to do so. Keep voting for reform board members
Couldn’t agree more. The mismanagement of the shooting sports is the least important aspect.
Human error
I’ve been an endowment member for many years. I also maintain numerous NRA instructor certifications, since many agencies view the NRA instructor certifications as some sort of gold standard. I don’t plan on dropping the NRA, but the leadership has really damaged their credibility in my eyes. It’s been very sad watching their decline and I hope new leadership can return them to their roots of firearms training and fighting for 2A rights.