what is your ultimate reason for avoiding the NRA?

Oof, seriously? Where to start… I am not going to write a book in this thread. It’s a surprising question. To be clear, this is not the #NRA of the 1970’s, which started as a gun safety organisation. Today’s NRA is the complete inverse. It’s anti-gun safety. NRA has become extremist. They lobby hard against every single gun safety measure that emerges. They would fight for the right of 12 year olds to carry hand grenades and land mines if it were up for discussion. They would advocate for schitzophrenics to carry ak-47s. They fight policy that would prohibit parents from leaving an insecure loaded gun lying around in reach of toddlers.

The NRA is in bed with ALEC and Koch brothers. They channel dark money from Russia and other illegit sources into republican war chests. ALEC is not just a lobby but also a bill mill that:

• opposes tax regs
• masks corporate tampering with politics
• fights immigration; pushes xenophobia
• fights affirmative action and feminism
• fights public education
• fights public healthcare
• fights environmental regs
• pushes climate denial propaganda and policy
• fights workers’ rights and weakens labor unions
• advocates citizens united
• advocates voter suppression and intimidation
• brainwashes voters to think democrats would nullify 2A and generally prohibit guns; they produce a constant stream of extremist propaganda on the Alex Jones level of nutty to have that effect
  etc.

you’ll probably find a lot of people that are ideologically opposed to you.

I don’t give a shit what the guy who packs guns into shipping boxes believes. I care where the money goes. When you buy a gun that feeds the NRA, you feed actions and policy that assault liberal values. You’re not a democrat in practice if you feed the NRA.