In 1995, the NRA was pretty much just as useless and tone deaf as they are today. Eventually, George H. W. Bush got fed up and resigned. Go read the letter.
Miscellaneous Heathen
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
My grandfather quit the NRA somewhere in the early 90s because he claimed they had become a politically motivated lobbying group. He, too, had been a lifetime member since the end of WWII. When I was kicking around between grad schools trying to figure out what to do with myself, he had encouraged me to seek NRA endorsement for the purpose of training others as a sideline business. “Don’t join the sons-a-bitches, but get their endorsement,” he said. “Looks good on a resume.” Not sure it would still look good on my resume, but my granddaddy said don’t join ’em, so I won’t.