@BitterReloaded

Still opinionated & holding the community to higher standards. Tired of the poorly informed who choose not to educate themselves. Tracker of NRA data.

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Joined October 2025
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I'm commenting on thoughts I have about gun community topics, particularly the NRA since I'm a longtime life member. Also, since I don't use the book of faces publicly, I may respond to some things I see there over here.
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Smart sending finished earlier today. Higher open rates than what Grok says is standard for election-related emails. Woo hoo! And several requests for absentee ballots based on the tracked clicks. Looks like there may have been a couple of shares, too.
BitterReloaded@BitterReloadedOct 23
Already got an absentee ballot request link click from someone who mostly votes, but not always. (Only a fraction have gone out - it sends based on the times they are likely to open it based on past activity.) Also see people are checking out other @NRA endorsement links...
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The goal is to get a better response by being a trusted voice for pro-gun election news that people know.
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Unless someone can convince me otherwise, my vote and those I influence will go to just 5 people.
John Richardson@jpr9954Oct 24
Final @NRA Candidate List Released - onlygunsandmoney.com/?p=3647… #BODElection

Final NRA Candidate List Released -

NRA Secretary John Frazer has released the complete list of candidates that will appear on the 2027 Board of…

onlygunsandmoney.com
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It's amazing how few Board members ask any kind of follow up to determine how to best guide the ship. What programs are seeing growth & what is the growth in context to investment? How were staff accountable for funds spent on projects & trips?
Willes Lee@WillesLeeOct 22
Executive Committee meet: probably some cuts in the short term but if we’uns (that’d be NRA members & supporters) contribute – time, money - there is favorable growth of programs & membership in the future. Rest was Executive Session. So, vote & #joinNRA. #freedomssafestplace
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Already got an absentee ballot request link click from someone who mostly votes, but not always. (Only a fraction have gone out - it sends based on the times they are likely to open it based on past activity.) Also see people are checking out other @NRA endorsement links...
BitterReloaded@BitterReloadedOct 23
Finally pulled the trigger on a completely custom email to several hundred gun club members who don't reliably vote in midterms based on their voter registration districts. Getting a working script for the different counties was a PITA, but finally got it.
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This email wasn't super long, but did include a quick mention of a topic gun folks are interested in & made the point it will largely be decided at the state level now due to court wins. Keeping it relevant to the local angle.
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BTW, if anyone who is leadership with a Pennsylvania gun club wants to do this, I am happy to share the script. Those files are from April, but most people don't change registration status often. You'll need a spreadsheet version of your club member list. DM for details.
BitterReloaded@BitterReloadedOct 23
Finally pulled the trigger on a completely custom email to several hundred gun club members who don't reliably vote in midterms based on their voter registration districts. Getting a working script for the different counties was a PITA, but finally got it.
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This relates to a point that was left unchallenged (maybe it's too small & not nationally focused enough?) in the recent @TheReloadSite podcast about gun control spending in the elections - it was claimed they weren't running ads against @BrianFitzUSA. Except... 🧵
Willes Lee@WillesLeeOct 23
No way to equal His money, but voting can cancel his antiAmerican antigun agenda. Vote. #freedomssafestplace
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Bloomberg may not be naming @RepBrianFitz, but he's absolutely dumping big money to turn out the Dem voters in Fitzpatrick's district. As a woman, I'm getting slammed with ads on stuff they think I would like. Bloomberg is funding the gun control messages for turnout.
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So I don't really see why Fitzpatrick thinks he's safe if he gives Bloomberg his votes. He's not. Bloomberg is still trying to get him out of office, but he's just not doing it by saying Fitzpatrick's name.
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Finally pulled the trigger on a completely custom email to several hundred gun club members who don't reliably vote in midterms based on their voter registration districts. Getting a working script for the different counties was a PITA, but finally got it.
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The final (final-ish?) version for this election left me with a much smaller group to verify manually than the version I started with.
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The goal with this is to get a better response since we don't spam our members generally, the message is completely locally focused, we didn't weigh in on any no chance races, and it's from a group they are more engaged with than most who send mailers.
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Found out. The NRA's chosen partner here seems to have cut their support down to 1 woman. She's just way behind. She was helpful on the phone, but given that my request was going on a week with no answer, yeah. (Mine was for purchased & unshipped product.)
BitterReloaded@BitterReloadedOct 22
Someone needs to figure out what all is going on with NRA E&T and their partners. I got billed for products not shipped from materials center. Okay, no biggie, reach out via the published ways. No response after almost a week. Call? Not taking them during open hours.
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If they are going to have a partnership that takes this long for customer service for failed shipments, then that whole forum thing would sure be handy for instructors to try to help people out.
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Someone needs to figure out what all is going on with NRA E&T and their partners. I got billed for products not shipped from materials center. Okay, no biggie, reach out via the published ways. No response after almost a week. Call? Not taking them during open hours.
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I'd go ask on the instructor forum since these are teaching materials related to see if anyone knows what is up, but oh yeah, they took that down, too.
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No communication at all from the staff or the Board. The Materials Center is just ignoring requests to make whole or actually ship product ordered. What the hell is going on there? Are these failures to communicate & deliver being reported up the chain?
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Be me. Have a library card. Learn there's a book about snipers in the Revolutionary War coming out next month. Hop on to the library website & put in a purchase request so the local library will have a patriotic book about American owning guns. Get message out everywhere.
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I was just thinking today about sharing the recruiter link to recommend signing up for NRA in my club's private group with the mention of the pending fee increase. But then I thought, "Why not rely on the cheerleader the Board member loves so much?"
BitterReloaded@BitterReloadedOct 14
One of the problems of current Board members who ran on reform, but it turns out weren't seriously involved specifically with NRA before, is that they want to recognize mindless clapping seals & call that real support rather than looking at those doing the real work for the org.
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Oh yeah. He doesn't know about the fee increase. He doesn't have recruiter links. Potentially worse, if he does know or have those things, he's not actually out there helping with it. But that's what they want these days with what I see.
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