NRA: No ‘Member Relationship’ With Adam Or Nancy Lanza

[ProgressiveProfessor]

75. Not really, its actually it a state imposed training requirement

I have mixed feelings about them. What other right do you need to get state certified training for to exercise? However, as long as they are not excessively onerous, I believe they are a good thing.

The NRA was originally a training organization. That has not gone away. They certify instructors, write curriculum, and provide expendable for classes. Its pretty good stuff, well polished over the years. No other organization has the history or the resources to compete with them, though there is nothing stopping anyone from doing so.

Another point is that the NRA itself is not doing the training. A facility (range, gun club, etc) offers it and uses NRA material and some supplemental material tailored to the locality to meet the training requirement. Instruction is normally given by an NRA certified instructor.

As to being quiet about them, I am in CA which takes a different, and IMO, a less effective approach. The firearms classes I taught met the CA standard but went much further.

In summary, the NRA is not a gatekeeper, they are a training materiel and instructor certification provider. The field is open for others, but no one seems interested in stepping up. CA, which went a different direction, has much less effective training requirements.