re: #145 Great White Snark

Define “fat”. The instructors pay NRA for materials, and get paid to give classes. Training takes time resources, money. The ILA is the really awful side of NRA. 90,000+ instructors doing the work these days. NSSF has a bunch too.

Nobody likes the pro gun politics, most of us agree the training is a necessity

I was referring more to back in the early 1900s which allowed them to build up their membership which they later turned into the political arm of the organization.