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Author Topic: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress  (Read 108 times)

Online RobD

A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« on: January 28, 2026, 06:17:24 AM »
No longer will there be TMA Contributing Members, or TMA Officers, or a TMA non-profit Incorporation. 

The TMA is still a non-profit Association of like-minded persons who wish to preserve and promote the rich and fascinating heritage of the traditional muzzleloading firearms of early America.

Your current TMA Officers and Board of Directors are now the TMA Council who will collectively administer the TMA website and forum for functionality, and content as outlined in our TMA User Agreement.

If you are a currently subscribed and paid TMA Contributing Member we thank you for your continued support because without you and your dollars we would not be here today. 

The TMA website and forum domain names and server space have been secured rent free for a full decade, to 2036.

The TMA would like to give back to each of our current paid up TMA Contributing Members with a "pay back" of $100.

This payback will be accomplished via PayPal or a TMA check. 

At your discretion, you can refuse your payback dollars and the TMA will add that to any existing TMA dollars that will find it all officially donated to a worthy charity.


An email will be sent to all current TMA Contributing Members, alerting each of their payback offer and directing them to this thread.  We expect this payback to be completed by the end of March of this year.  If any TMA Contributing Members have not answered our payback email or posted on this thread, their payback dollars will be charity donated.

Once the TMA Contributing Members have been paid and the remaining TMA dollars have been charity donated, the TMA bank account and TMA PayPal account will both be dissolved - no longer needed.

Thank you all for visiting our TMA forum and for supporting our/your worthy goals.

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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2026, 08:54:16 AM »
It's a no-brainer: charity donation for me, please and thank you!

Online RobD

Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2026, 09:16:35 AM »
It's a no-brainer: charity donation for me, please and thank you!

Thank you ... and same for me, charity donation.

Offline Bearhntr

Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2026, 09:22:41 AM »
Charity for me as well!

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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2026, 10:40:56 AM »
Donate mine as well.

Darren

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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2026, 01:09:56 PM »
Well, I think I will take a check.
I can use the money to help pay the dues at my local rifle range if/when it ever reopens.
Then I can compete in the monthly shoots here on TMA.
Sounds like a good use of the money to me.
PM going to Darren with my mailing address.
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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2026, 08:18:34 PM »
Can you tell me who/where the funds will be donated?
We are supposed to be surrounded we're paratroopers
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Online RobD

Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2026, 09:50:48 PM »
Can you tell me who/where the funds will be donated?

Undecided yet ... maybe St Jude's Cancer Children's Fund ... got a suggestion?

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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2026, 11:32:46 PM »
That is definitely a great idea for St Jude's.
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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2026, 07:36:10 AM »
If you go to St Jude?s I?m definitely in for the donation option.
We are supposed to be surrounded we're paratroopers
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Online KDubs

Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2026, 07:43:15 AM »
For those of you donating i would consider
 Tunnels to towers or possibly DAV , disabled American veterans.
 Worthy causes
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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2026, 11:08:55 AM »
Half to St. Jude's for our children and half to DAV for our brothers. Gets my vote.
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Re: A Major Change to Our TMA is Now in Progress
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2026, 12:40:14 PM »
Half to St. Jude's for our children and half to DAV for our brothers. Gets my vote.
Same here!  :yessir: :hairy  :yessir:  :hairy
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