I don't like the lobbying and stuff either but it is as old as civilization itself. It is a reality that affects us regardless of if we want it to or not. There are two ways to go about this: refuse to participate and hope the fecal matter never hits the oscillating wind machine, or get with the biggest defender of liberty that there is. Its time for gun owners to realize that there are 80-100 million of us out there and only 4-5 million of them are funding the damned fight for the rest. If only a quarter of the gun owners would put their money where their mouth is that would eliminate the need for the NRA to ask the rest of us for so much money.