My gun club also requires NRA membership. My club has had such a list of people wanting to join each year, we've had to cap our waiting list to 75. Even then it could take 2 or 3 years to get in, but the list never goes down. I don't always agree with the NRA, but they are the largest, most powerful, and vocal gun rights lobby we have. That's who I want defending my gun rights. Given all that's going on, I just upped my NRA membership to Life Patron. Good deal for $300.