“I believe the NRA Board BOD must work to gain back the trust of our membership through transparency; we must rebuild our education, training, competition, and community outreach activities; and the BOD must take action to identify and remove anyone that is responsible for allowing the situation to fester which saw the NRA in the New York courts and elsewhere.
We can accomplish this by working with the members and like-minded local grassroots organizations to put real reform into the NRA policies, select and elect 2A-friendly state and local representatives of the people, and develop good 2A-friendly personal freedom legislation FOR THE PEOPLE.

Also, I want to work on revamping the nominating and petition process to make it simpler and allow more action from the members to nominate BOD members that truly represent them.  We need to work to refine our fiscal policies and processes to ensure the problems of the last decade or so do not reappear.”

A Lifetime Benefactor Member and involved with the Cape Fear Friends of NRA, Jim was born into largely a Navy family and being a member of Navy Junior ROTC in high school, Jim “the rebel bastard” joined the US Army in 1976 and trained as an infantryman and paratrooper. Spending nearly 21 years on active duty, mostly at Ft Bragg in Special Operations and Airborne units, he retired in 1996. He is a Desert Storm / Desert Shield combat veteran and saw several mission deployments in Central & South America and Korea.

Jim spent most of the next 21 years as a Department of Defense civil service employee, including assignments with Joint Special Operations Command, US Army Special Operations Command, and the 82^nd Airborne Division.

A member of the Boy Scouts of America for 55 plus years, he is a Shooting Sports Director and annually instructs at National Camping School to certify other Scout leaders as Shooting Sports Directors.

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