I let my membership lapse when it became clear that the LaPierre cabal were using the organization as a piggy bank. I refused to pay my good money to fund other peoples’ lavish lifestyles while ignoring their core mission. I really didn’t want to continue to pay good money to an organization that was ignoring its primary mission to wage into the culture wars. So, I left.

Then the reformers managed to storm the gates. A forlorn hope at first, and then in the last election, a tidal wave of change. Including people that I knew and trusted from my years in the gun blogosphere. I was cautiously optimistic. Things looked good, but was it enough to put my hard earned cash back in.

The tipping point was this week’s statement against the administration’s trial balloon to ban transgendered people from purchasing and owning firearms.

It is the clear statement of mission. The clear statement of defending the citizenry’s rights regardless of if the people involved are politically popular. The clear statement I want from my NRA.

I am once again the NRA.