What does the NRA do with donated material that is so bad? Improper storage? Not sharing?
I’ve been a NRA member for forty years and believe that all firearms owners should be a NRA member to protect your rights to own a firearm. I have all the American Rifleman magazines save the last twenty years that I just pitched, with another twenty to go. Reading and studying the older AR early on led me to believe that they, the NRA was were the historical knowledge was. I remember my first letter to them asking about a well known historical figure in the shooting world, they never heard of the guy. Over the years from time to time when I’m stuck looking for answers I write them. I don’t believe that I ever got an answer that amounted to anything. First I thought they had so many request that they were just overwhelmed, and then I thought that it was a closed organization where only the insiders got help. I now believe that they just don’t know much or don’t know how to find the information. I do not believe that they even have an index of their older magazines like “Arms and the Man” or AR and I don’t believe that they have a complete collection of the magazines. This hit home when the Museum was in DC and a staff member called me and asks for me to look something up in an older NRA magazine.
Whatever the reason, they are not able to help people who do firearms related research so my stuff will go where it will be available to others.
