NRA membership - how difficult!!

[Alpha1]

To join you have to be ‘range safe’, I have to have a paper trail which shows you as a HOA club member.

What does HOA mean. Please.

[HeatherW762]

Home Office Approved

Heather

[Alpha1]

Thank you. Heather.

[Griff]

Mike it was me you spoke to.

To join you have to be ‘range safe’, I have to have a paper trail which shows you as a HOA club member.

From our application form:

The Applicant must hold a current Firearms Certificate showing authority to shoot on approved ranges as an HOA club member (valid for at least three months from the date of application). The original certificate should be supplied (though 2 photocopies will be acceptable - all 4 pages please), it will be returned to the holder by recorded delivery by return or as soon as possible. Your HOA club must appear on your FAC. If your FAC is only for vermin control and/or stalking you may have to attend a membership assessment.
or
Note 3: The enclosed form must be completed by your HOA club secretary confirming full membership of that club, that the member is of good standing within the club and detailing any shooting related incidents that could give cause for concern. The applicant may not be related to the club secretary. If they are then another club officer may complete the form.


Now, your FAC hasn’t got your club on it as a condition of issue. As a courtesy to you I accepted an emailed scan of your SCC as proof of club membership, this is not something I usually do.

We are currently snowed under with new applications hence the delay. You are right when you say we have around 6.500 members, however these are individual members, I also mentioned to you that we also have approx 750 clubs affiliated to us whose membership totals around 50,000.



Nick

Good to have seen an answer from the NRA (presuming this is an official reply from the NRA Staff Member concerned), however, this was a private reply and shouldn't, in my opinion, have been posted in a public form.

If the member concerned chose to comment on the reply they received as advice to others when they apply for membership, then so be it. Come on NRA!!! Think before you write in public, the reply seemed a bit stuck up and more about making a point then sympathetically advising a new member of the reasons for the delay.

Have I caused a ripple? I hope it will cause a procedural change but knowing my ripples its more like a tidal wave!!!

[HeatherW762]

I think that's called 'damned if we do & damned if we don't' sign01

Heather

[John25]

Nick won't stick up for himself, or argue in public.

Griff, it is impossible to put attitude and demeanor in a post

It is easy to misunderstand which is what I believe you have done.

Nick has explained the official view and given a good reason.

A public forum is exactly the place for that if, as in this case, it is where the question was asked. If we wish keep a message private we should use PM or email.

With a smile and sincere handshake


:cheers:

[John25]

I think that's called 'damned if we do & damned if we don't' sign01

Heather

I remember it well, but I'm damned if I have to put up with it any more. I don't have a job to worry about :shakeshout:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Griff]

It wasn't meant as an attack in any way and my post might also have been misread in regards to its meaning. I think the post could have been rewritten and maybe started without a public reply but with simply stating the requirements for the application process.

Argh, damned if I say anything at all, am sure this was why I said I'd not post again, everything I write is misread and am getting fed up.....

[John25]

Chill Grif, I wasn't having a go.


You should post if you have an opinion and something you wish to question or share.

If you disagree so much more important to put an 'opposing' viewpoint.

We all get :cool2: sometimes. Best to let it out.

Some day we should get P.... Together?