Don't "Cotton" to the Old Guard

[dogtown tom]

GOA won't do it because certified instructors goes against GOA's core mission. Certified instructors support the idea that gun ownership is a privilege, not a right. GOA promotes that you, as a gun owner, has the right to own guns. GOA partners with instructors that put on a good product and promotes them. But GOA will not create their own "this is our lesson plan, it is this or nothing" certification system.

Oh please. GOA doesn't have certified instructors because it was Larry Pratts scam. Larry Pratt spent FORTY YEARS as Executive Director of GOA.....and his grifting mirrors Wayne LaPierre. The only difference between the two is the effectiveness of each organization. The percentage of GOA's revenue that went into Larrys pockets was far greater than the percentage of NRA revenue that went to Wayne. Both should be embarrassed.

GOA has never actually had education as part of its mission. It sponsors no competitions and no educational programs.

While the stench of WLP and Charles Cotton disgusts me, the GOA is equally repulsive......and spends a greater percentage of its revenue stuffing the pockets of its board members.
To see the nastiness in print, one just has to register for a free Guidestar account. There you can see a "nonprofits" IRS Form 990.
GOA's Form 990 for 2022

In FL, permitless carry faced major resistance from certified firearms instructors. You want to know why? Because permitless carry ate into their profits. And a certain lobbyist who has a fondness for cats was against permitless carry too since it ate into her organization's profits since the majority of CCW instructors were certified through her organization and that was a money printing machine.

Same here in Texas. But it wasn't NRA instructors.....it was instructors certified by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Being a "certified NRA instructor" is not required by the State of Texas to be licensed as an instructor by Texas DPS.

Mind you, the certified instructors that put in those classes did it with a Heritage Roughrider, .22 shorts, and a buckey of sand, all in a convention center or hotel conference room.

I'm not an NRA certified anything, but tell us why thats worthy of ridicule?
In my Texas LTC class, held in the back room of a gun store/gun range, there were no firearms present because the curriculum doesn't have the instructor demonstrating anything with a firearm.

 

[dogtown tom]

Weird, one the most power Democrats sure did complain about GOA. Former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the NRA was “bad, really bad” and that GOA is “even worse than bad.”

Uh......that's embarrassing. At the 0:22 mark "the thing about the Gun Owners of America is the organization itself has been around for the better part of seventy five years.."
No, try forty seven years.

If your only quote is from Harry Reid in 2016....... it proves my point.

 

[dogtown tom]

I'm not flying around in a private jet, wearing bespoke suits. I drive my personal vehicle and if I fly, it is coach on the Walmart of the Skies (Spirit or Frontier).

Well, you ain't the Executive Director or Executive VP of GOA either are you?

 

[DustyGmt]

Well, you ain't the Executive Director or Executive VP of GOA either are you?

I think he is an executive director something or other if I recall.

 

[dogtown tom]

I think he is an executive director something or other if I recall.

For Florida only

 

[Miami_JBT]

For Florida only

I cover more than FL.

 

[grampster]

I'm a Life member and between my deceased dad and I, we have nearly 100 years of NRA membership. The NRA is like many old large groups...they become cloistered and the leadership becomes rubber stamps. Our votes are mostly meaningless. The only control possible is to withhold money. That would cause a crisis and the NRA would either fix itself or collapse. One or the other would be a good thing.