If you don't like the NRA or affiliated organizations, then go join another or start your own.
I did.
We got concealed carry for the people of Arizona, ultimately leading to Constitutional Carry.
And the NRA tried to close us down, even though two former BOARD MEMBERS (Colonel Cooper and Neal Knox) were supporting us.
To the best of my knowledge, the NRA is the ONLY national gun rights organization that has been active in the legislature here in Nevada
. . .and the result has been . . .what . . ? What successes can you point to which the NRA won for us? Or, to be more fair, what campaigns have they fought on our behalf? The only activity that I have seen from the NRA in Nevada is membership tables at gun shows.
If I'm guilty of "eating our own" because I refuse to accept nebulous answers to the simple question which began this thread, what do you call it when your "national gun rights organization" has tried to throw monkey wrenches into every campaign or case which has made progress in the last 40 years? When they support Project Exile's enforcement of unconstitutional law? When they help HARRY REID get re-elected? When they SUPPORTED the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the National Firearms Act of 1934, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN VICE PRESIDENT?
From an article written by NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth, American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968 (Pg 22-24):
"The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871."
""The NRA supported The National Firearms Act of 1934 which taxes and requires registration of such firearms as machine guns, sawed-off rifles and sawed-off shotguns. ... NRA support of Federal gun legislation did not stop with the earlier Dodd bills. It currently backs several Senate and House bills which, through amendment, would put new teeth into the National and Federal Firearms Acts."
"The NRA supported The Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which regulates interstate and foreign commerce in firearms and pistol or revolver ammunition..."
"The NRA supported the original 'Dodd Bill' to amend the Federal Firearms Act in regard to handguns when it was introduced as S.1975 in August, 1963. Among its provisions was the requirement that a purchaser submit a notarized statement to the shipper that he was over 18 and not legally disqualified from possessing a handgun."
"In January, 1965, with the continued support of the NRA, Senator Dodd introduced an amended version of his first bill, now designated 5.14 and expanded to cover rifles and shotguns as well as handguns."
Where in ANY of that do you find justification for calling the NRA a "gun rights organization"???
This policy has continued:
"We think it's reasonable to support the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. ... We think it's reasonable to expect full enforcement of federal firearms laws by the federal government. ... That's why we support Project Exile -- the fierce prosecution of federal gun laws...we think it's reasonable because it works. ... We only support what works and our list is proud." —NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, Congressional Testimony, May 27, 1999
“Cutting a special deal at the expense of the First Amendment with lawmakers who have decided for now to stop gutting the Second Amendment reveals an NRA that is unprincipled and will be weaker for it in the long run” – Wall Street Journal, 6/16/2010