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The NRA and the other guns rights organizations have bought into this fund raising tactic.
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The problem, as I've noted before, is that relying on the Supreme Court to invalidate a Small Arms Treaty signed by the President and ratified by the Senate is basically a last ditch effort. There are a lot of ways that strategy could go wrong.
Right now any threat of the UN Small Arms Treaty is remote at best; but that is in no small part because some organizations, like the NRA, have gotten certified as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and gone to the UN. Just this past summer, Wayne LaPierre addressed the UN Small Arms Treaty group. And the NRA's role in getting a filibuster-proof majority of Senators to say they wouldn't ratify such a treaty was helpful as well.
So, even though it remains a remote threat (in part thanks to such work) there is fighting that needs to be done there and there are organizations that are doing it. However, I'd be skeptical of any organization that claims to be fighting the UN treaty but hasn't even bothered to go to New York and participate in the process.