I am not going to defend the NRA for its uncovered government like corruption. In fact, that is why I never become a life member of anything...so that I can write a letter and withhold my membership if they don't get their act together. But that is what makes organizations like the Red Cross, etc. who have all have had scandals ultimately better than the federal government...better accountability.
Does the NRA use hyperbole? Sure. Is the threat to are freedoms overstated? Absolutely not!
I just moved from a blue state, and still have family there. The state has a good state constitution, but has an ever more progressive supreme court and is ruled by a corrupt progressive power structure concentrated in a small area of the state (many transplants from California and other foreign countries who grew up and were educated under authoritarian regimes without any idea what the constitution means at the federal or state levels).
There are CONSTANT threats to the second ammendment in that state, and the NRA seems to be right in the thick of it many times. Those that say that the nra has corruption which needs to be rooted out or that they don't agree with some positions that the nra takes, well more power to you.
But for those above who make blanket statements and say that the NRA is not doing any good (and you know who you are because you do it with every nra controversy), I question your motives and challenge you to back your shi!#% talking up with some facts.
Here is a small sample below of what is going on in Washington State, and coming soon to a state near you. Background checks aren't the problem. It is registration that is the problem, and which usually starts as just holding background check information for a while and then leads to confiscation....every time!
WA State Gov. Says ‘NRA On the Run,’ Gun Control Resistance Rises