Is There any Benefit to Joining the NRA for Life?

I%26#039;m currently an annual member and I just received an offer to join for life for $500, half the normal price. I%26#039;ve been trying to figure out whether or not this would be a good value.

If I took that same $500 and threw it in a bank account generating 5% interest, I could withdraw annual membership dues at the full rate of $35 dollars for 23 years before the well ran dry. This increases to 32 and 62 years for the discounted rates of $30 and $25.

Now I%26#039;m not planning on letting my membership slip, but given that it takes a lifetime for a life membership to pay off and that nobody can predict the long-term future of the NRA and the gun culture, are there any benefits to joining for life other than having bragging rights?

I%26#039;m just wondering what other NRA members have to say about all of this.

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You bring up an interesting point. I can%26#039;t really think of any members%26#039; advantage in joining for life other than bragging rights and, in actuality, paying the annual membership fee equates to more monetary support over time to a fine organization that works to protect our Second Amendment rights.

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I%26#039;m proud to be an NRA Life Member

There%26#039;s a cost savings if you average it out...but mostly I did it for pride.

I still contribute regularly although my Life Membership has been paid already. The evil gun grabbers are stil plotting, they never rest in their attempts to abolish the 2nd Amendment. This is a fight that freedom-loving Americans cannot afford to lose.|||If you are working the economics of this then you wouold be doing it for all the wrong reasons!|||it%26#039;s not so much about the membership rate.they are going to court over our rights to own arms in june and or july.they have a bigger voice than one person.the choice is yours to make.the nra will be around as long as there are people trying to remove your rights.i wonder why the aclu wont go it for the american people on this issue.lol|||I still pay 1 year at a time, and we are fighting for the long term future of the gun culture!

There are some token benefits, but the main one is just being a life member and giving the NRA funds that we can us to defeat the current gun-banners running for office!!!!

Thank you for your dedication to the 2nd Amendment and to our NRA!!!!!

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