I believe that there are people actively doing things to defend their gun rights that don't involve joining a lobby group or being politically active. Recruiting new shooters to the sport is effective at producing more pro-gun voters. Unless gun owners actually vote based on this issue however, and make their voting choices known to the parties running, it won't help just to have more shooters.
What I know for certain is that about 90% of gun owners are doing absolutely FA of any kind to defend their gun rights and they will come to regret that. If you are doing nothing, at least coughing 30 bucks to support a lobby group is a bit of a help. The NRA has its problems but American gun rights would be very different if they didn't exist.
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