ORIGINAL: Hossfly
All true, although I would personally object to the AMA being compared with the NRA.
Planes are for pleasure, guns are for killing people.
I hope people enjoy flying much more than killing people.
They don't compare.
-David C.
Very true in that AMA and NRA do NOT compare.
Modeling is for pleasure and AMA is an IRS 501 (c) (3) charitable educational organization which is prohibited from political lobby. AMA can *educate* but officially nothing more.
NRA is an organization, not charitable in mission, and is there to lobby for the rights of all citizens, under the Constitution of the United States, that right to bear arms, the one thing that oppressive government is most afraid of.
While NRA has a charitable foundation for educational purposes, AMA has yet to establish any group to exercise any political input reference our *pleasure*.
The NRA has a mission and goes forward with that mission even though it too has a lot of inside politics in how to accomplish that mission.
In my opinion, AMA also has a mission, however such mission is frequently ignored in the pursuit of playing 'Insurance Broke'.
Horrace Cain
AMA 539
Life member, NRA.
Charter Founder, Second Amendment Task Force.
And like the AMA, the NRA has liability policies to cover member club's playground. They also have a national "playground", far removed from the "majority' of membership, they sponsor and promote competitions, issue members a choice of magazines and a large number of other things..not the least of which they are at least 20 times larger than the AMA-and are not an insurance company, either.
The big difference in the isurance is that the NRA only requires 50% of the club's members to be NRA for the insurance to cover the club/landowner.