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Re: Harvey Paul's Post # 1440
I've never been a member of MRA or even visited the place, but a few comments about your query:
I've never been a member of MRA or even visited the place, but a few comments about your query:
- With the nature of gun ownership being what it is, and the fact that no club really vets members, there is no way that I'd want all the members of any such group to have my phone number and Email address. IIRC stated above . . . MRA has something like 2000 members, not a small club.
- Officers/BOD member info should be available to all members. Each club should decide how this is done: bulletin board at the club, website (open or restricted to members), etc.
- Rules, bylaws and regulations should all be posted preferably on the website, so members and prospective members understand what is and isn't allowed. It shouldn't be a secret. My first gun club (24 years a member) never has had a website and current management doesn't want one, reason enough for people to look elsewhere. Another club I used to belong to - all rules were made in BOD meetings which were secret, no minutes of BOD meetings were ever released to members, no copies of bylaws or rules available to members (or even the secretary of said club) - signs of bad management.
- Braintree R&P used to print your name on your badge (we are NOT just a number). They stopped doing that when they got overrun with 60-100 new members joining each month. We still introduce ourselves and call each other by name, not badge number.
- Clubs "requiring" sponsors is a joke. You meet someone, talk with them for a few minutes and they "sponsor" you. There is no mechanism for doing background checks and all 4 clubs I've belonged to require sponsors but if you don't know someone an officer/BOD member will volunteer to be the name put down on the application. There is no risk being a sponsor either. And 3 of the 4 clubs I've belonged to only had 250-350 members, not big clubs.