I'll take the minority view, but to me that's about $299.00 more than I'm willing to spend.

The NRA of my youth was an honorable organization representing sportsmen, marksmen and collectors. Unfortunately, it has devolved into the paranoia-peddling marketing wing of a firearms industry pandering to kooks who spend their time fantasizing about post-apocalyptic, societal breakdown or government tyranny scenarios.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" -Isaac Asimov