Falls Township R&P Assn

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20 Days To Go In NRA Board Race

March 17, 2025 by 0 Comments

With only 20 days to go before all ballots must be received by the NRA’s tabulating firm, this last factoid from the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association is an interesting note. With 49 candidates on the ballot plus another two write-in candidates, I think this number may drop even with people voting the full slate of NRA 2.0 candidates.

Now that we know that a total of 30 candidates will be elected, it is critical to remember that your ballot can only contain 28 selections including the two write-ins. Any more than that and it will be trashed as invalid. The passing of Walt Walter and the pending resignation of Ken Blackwell are what have opened up the extra two slots on the board.

Falls Township made this observation about the implications of the post above.

Reformers can win! In previous elections, the difference between popular insider candidates and the ones who barely got elected was a huge.

In recent years, the races have narrowed dramatically. Members are spreading their votes out and not voting for insider candidates as frequently.

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Monday’s NRA Voting Factoid

March 10, 2025 by 3 Comments

In what should not surprise anyone, voting participation in the NRA Board of Directors election has dropped by almost half since 2019. That year the percentage of members voting was 5.95% which is not that great in and of itself. In 2024, it was 3.16%. Over that same time period membership in the NRA has dropped by almost two million members.

We have 27 days left in which to reverse this trend and to elect the NRA 2.0 slate of candidates. Ballots must be received by April 6th. Given that April 6th is a Sunday, I’m am thinking a day or so earlier is the absolute cut-off for your ballot to be received.

Given everything that has been revealed since the 2019 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, it is no wonder that members have left and voting has dropped off. This year is our chance to reverse the voting trend, clean house, and give the NRA a chance to regain its strength. By cleaning house, I mean defeating those who stood by while Wayne and company were merrily grifting away. The old guard, the Friends of Wayne, the cabal, or whatever you want to call them have stood in the way of change and are trying to get elected on the basis of old, sometimes very old, accomplishments. Their time is past.

Now it is time to elect those who stand for accountability, integrity, and, most of all, transparency.

Thanks to the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association for creating the NRA Voting Facts series.

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Let’s Be Above Average

March 7, 2025 by 2 Comments

In another voting facts factoid from the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association, we learn that in the last five NRA Board elections that it took an average of 51,774 votes to be elected.

If what I’m hearing on the ground is accurate, it should take more than that to be elected. The reason being is that I’m hearing from long time members that they plan to vote for the first time. Moreover, they plan to vote for NRA 2.0 and reform.

If you have friends who are NRA members, ask them if they are a voting member? Ask them if they have voted yet? If they answer no, tell them they need to vote and they need to vote for NRA 2.0. While it might be nice to see the NRA returned to its former prominence, I am more concerned about it being an effective advocate for the Second Amendment and not worrying about who gets the credit for the win.

Go to ElectANewNRA.com to see the whole slate.

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NRA Voting Facts Revisited

March 3, 2025 by

In another illustration of how so few eligible NRA voting members actually vote is this factoid from the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association.

Thanks to Bitter and the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association for compiling these numbers. Imagine a NRA if a million members voted for change, reform, and NRA 2.0. Nothing could stop us!

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Sign The Official Envelope!

February 11, 2025 by

This important reminder comes from the Falls Township Rifle & Pistol Association.

They have this important advice:

The biggest gains that can be made for reform leadership are through NRA voting members who don’t typically vote. If you’re recruiting from the ranks of new or infrequent board election voters, don’t let them get caught up in the thousands of ballots that get tossed out each year as invalid.

Aside from arriving late and casting too many votes, “No Authentication” is a top preventable mistake made with ballots that will keep them from being counted.