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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

As a person who’s gone a lifetime of assiduously avoiding supporting the NRA, my present understanding is that one can pay a daily or hourly fee at a public or private range without resulting in a net benefit to Wayne LaPierre, BUT many ranges and sportsman’s rod and gun clubs require NRA membership in order to become a member — something about NRA death and dismemberment insurance, no doubt. So he can’t become a member. But paying $10, particularly at a publicly owned range, isn’t going to empower the NRA. I welcome corrections from anyone who sees it differently.

Unless he means he doesn’t want to support the NRA by enriching, even slightly, a person or business who is then more capable of donating. Because if that’s the standard, you’re pretty much going to have to displace yourself from Texas again, or “go freegan.”

What’s a person with a big fucking family ranch doing at a gun range, anyway? I thought people in Texas just fire their guns out the bathroom window to salute the dawn.

I don't know anything about gun ranges for two reasons: a) big fucking family ranch and b) public safety. I'm the worst shot in history (though I suspect that my youngest sister is worse, but there's no data to support it because she refuses to touch a weapon), so I don't go near guns to ensure that no one accidentally loses a toe or worse. I'm on the close hand to hand combat with blunt and/or sharp instrument team when the zombie Apocalypse comes.