owever, some spokesmen for this community (such as the NRA under Wayne LaPierre) want to impose a "conservative" litmus test. The message is, "If you're not a Republican, we don't want you."
Nothing could be further from the truth.
NRA wants everyone interested in the shooting sports or interested in preserving the second amendment to become a member and sponsor another member. NRA does not impose a litmus test. NRA welcomes everyone; black, white, brown, red, yellow or purple with pink polka dots. NRA does not care if you are male, female, neuter, gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, non-sexual, tri-sexual or extraterestrial. NRA doesn't care if you are Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green Party, Tea Party or no party. (It just so happens that the majority of liberal Democrats have been front and center of the legislative efforts to limit the 2nd amendment, if not its destruction, piece by legislative piece. There has been a small minority of Republicans in on those efforts, too, don't get me wrong. However, they are a very small minority.
What the NRA DOES care about is that the person be genuinely interested in the 2nd amendment, firearms safety, the shooting sports and the preservation of the American Constitution. Maybe not everything all the time, but at least one thing some of the time.
And as Robert Hairless said back in 2005:
"The NRA is a service organization for all firearms owners and users, and for anyone more concerned with Second Amendment rights than in spouting nonsense about them. It's available to everyone and can't possibly be considered an elitist or exclusive group except by the malicious, the ignorant, or the dimwitted." - Robert Hairless