Project One Million: Texas
A Grass Roots Campaign to Boost the NRA Membership in Texas
Do you know:
The National Rifle Association and it's certified instructors train more law enforcement professionals and civilians than all other training organizations combined.
The National Rifle Association operates to protect gun ownership not just in the U.S. federal environment, but in the United Nations and the individual states of America as well.
The National Rifle Association's safety training for children and youth is the world standard for teaching firearms safety to youngsters.
The NRA has a budget that is slim compared to the massive war chests available to anti-gun lobbyists.
This organization is responsible for legislation in nearly every state that allows law abiding citizens to obtain permits for concealed carry. NRA attorneys are perpetually arguing cases in courts across this great nation to maintain citizens' rights to keep firearms in their homes for personal protection.
Formed in 1871 by veteran Union Army officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate, the NRA has been faithfully working to train, protect, and educate American citizens in the areas of marksmanship, firearms safety, and second amendment rights for 138 years.
"Project One Million: Texas" is a grassroots effort to meet the goal of 1,000,000 NRA members in Texas in 2009.
While dire predictions swirl through gun sites and forums on the Internet of an all-out offensive against gun ownership following the defeat of Republicans in recent years, heavily punctuated by the election of Barrack Obama, the best hope for holding Democrats and Republicans alike to their stated commitments to gun owner rights is the NRA.
Today, the NRA needs new members like never before to help prevent the restrictions some law makers and anti gun lobbyists are planning to impose on the American people.
This effort was started by Charles L. Cotton, native Texan and attorney who has been a political activist on Second Amendment issues for over thirty years and a member of the NRA Board of Directors since 2001, according to his bio at http://www.projectonemilliontexas.com. I will add that Charles L. Cotton is highly accomplished and respected in many circles, because he's too humble to put that in his bio.
His ambition with Project One Million: Texas is to expand the Texas NRA membership from 250,000 to one million. According to the site, Charles realizes this is a massive undertaking, but he says: "...this is Texas and we do everything bigger and better here."
Charles points out that the State of Texas sells over one million hunting licenses every year, and reasons that each of those purchasers should join the NRA. I have to agree, and there are so many of us who don't hunt who still owe a lot of our firearms freedom to the NRA.
For a few years I neglected to renew my NRA membership, but when I took advantage of obtaining my Texas Concealed Handgun License, and learned that the law providing me that opportunity would never have been submitted as a bill (much less passed into law) without the NRA, I figured I owed it to them and have subsequently kept my membership current.
I even send a little extra whenever I can.
Look behind any pro gun ownership legislation passed in recent years in the federal legislature or any of the States, and you'll see the NRA involved somehow in its initiation or passage. They've already gotten you your money's worth, and they are going to continue.
These guys and gals have been working off donations and managing a budget successfully for 138 years, plus they've been doing exactly what they promise. That's a whole lot more than I can say for many other organizations (and certain institutions) these days.
You can find out how to join the NRA by clicking here. If you do, please drop by the Project One Million: Texas website and let them know this article pointed you that way.
Tell your friends and relatives about this ambitious goal and get them to sign up, too.
Don't live in Texas? Why not start a recruitment campaign in your own state?
It is the NATIONAL Rifle Association, after all.
Published by Timothy Frazier
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Post a CommentCouldn't find link to reference your article but found hidden at the bottom a place to help keep this campaign alive:
Email Charles@TexasShooting.com to request cards and/or bumper stickers.
Very informative, even though I don't own a gun and would never hunt.
There are so many lost "Rights" that are affecting my beliefs at work, school, and even home. Americans can write to their Washington Representatives. I get more comfort knowing that there is an organization working hard to also make my voice known. The stronger we can make the NRA the louder they will hear all Americans that care about our "RIGHTS" that should be protected by the Constitution. The Obahama Administration needs to get full focus of the bailout mess they are creating and not worry about our 2nd Admendment. If our current government wants to focus on the 2nd Admendment, well, we will too. Apparently the economy is not too bad and does not need our full attention iether. Support the NRA.
Your elaboration on the activities of the NRA was educational and important. The NRA does not represent a bunch of gun-toting hillbillies - It also helps protect our constitutional right to have a gun in the event that we need to protect ourselves. Great article.
Your elaboration on the activities of the NRA was educational and important. The NRA does not represent a bunch of gun-toting hillbillies - It also helps protect our constitutional right to have a gun in the event that we need to protect ourselves. Great article.
Excellent article, and I hope you all reach your goal. Some would have us believe that the NRA is somehow responsible for all of the innocent people killed with guns in the US, and nothing is further from the truth. Although I really do not like many of the politicians they've endorsed here lately, I appreciate what they do, whether it's standing up to gun-control lobbyists, taking the fight to court, or exposing politicians with an agenda that involves disarming the People (I have been a Life Member since 2006, by the way).
Peace!
Not at all. D.C. politicians are still trying to worm their way around recent decisions and find ways to prevent people from keeping a handgun in their own homes. Gun ownership rights are only a fraction of what the NRA works to protect. They provide research, training for law enforcement, education for kids, etc, etc, etc, as stated in the article.
Didn't the recent Supreme Court ruling pretty much eliminate gun ownership bans?
Good reporting.