Regardless of what you think of them, the USA kind of needs them. Teaches people what NOT to do when debating gun laws, in my opinion.
I've never read something so fallacious in all my life.
Well that's why we have books, magazines and the internet technically speaking. We don't really need the NRA to make new
material for us to gawk and laugh at.
i wouldn't be surprised if this was some scheme for the NRA to trick its members into donating
They didn’t even need this scheme to get my father’s regular tithe...
Oh no. That's horrible. Whatever will we do?
The notion that the NRA gets most of their money from private donors is false.
While that is still part of the organization's core function, today less than half of the NRA's revenues come from program fees and membership dues.
The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources.
Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program. Donors include firearm companies like Midway USA, Springfield Armory Inc, Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems, and Beretta USA Corporation. Other supporters from the gun industry include Cabala's, Sturm Rugar & Co, and Smith & Wesson.
The NRA also made $20.9 million — about 10 percent of its revenue — from selling advertising to industry companies marketing products in its many publications in 2010, according to the IRS Form 990.
Additionally, some companies donate portions of sales directly to the NRA. Crimson Trace, which makes laser sights, donates 10 percent of each sale to the NRA. Taurus buys an NRA membership for everyone who buys one of their guns. Sturm Rugar gives $1 to the NRA for each gun sold, which amounts to millions. The NRA's revenues are intrinsically linked to the success of the gun business.
The NRA Foundation also collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry, which it then gives to local-level organizations for training and equipment purchases.
Fear mongering propaganda meant to scare their members into donating
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nra-gets-spends-money-213800803.html
It literally changes almost year to year and president to president, with $164 million being provided by members alone in 2016. $104 million was donated by "contributors" in that same year. Considering your information from 2013 was a relatively benign year for gun issues, and only mentions roughly $26 Million to $50 Million from the industry and shows no numbers from members, and my information comes from an election year which always boosts membership rates I think it's still fair to say a large portion of their money comes from due paying members.
That's what the security of a republican majority and president does to you, fuckers. They needed the fear-mongering gun grabs they had back when Obama was in office.
If anything it's actually killing it even more so. Gun sales are at record lows, since now people feel safe that no extra gun legislation will go into play and thus no longer "need to buy em before they ban em". As someone who works in the industry I can tell you a lot of big names closed and a lot of mom and pops shut down due to the general slump in sales. Both of these have more than likely lead to a decline in membership rates, hell I know I was getting calls for days asking to sign up before I finally blocked the number.
Right now is really the prime time to kill the NRA, and they've done it all themselves.
That was the jist of what I was trying to say, you might recall the huge gun grabs that happened when Obama made a few few statements after a couple mass shootings, I can't imagine how much that helped the NRA.
This is the trick Alex Jones has used to keep bleeding the suckers, he'll either push their stupid shit or he'll say they've got 3 days worth of money in the bank account, DONATE DONATE DONATE DONATE
One can only hope, but it's just wishful thinking imo
Theres a couple different lobbying groups for guns, the NRA is the most prolific and well funded and certainly the most radical. The Second Ammendment foundation is the one I'm a member of. They dont have the funding to do a whole heck of a lot but I'd rather support them than the NRA.
I've never been a big fan of the NRA, but the worst thing for me personally is I used their form emails to send letters to my local representatives back in 2013/2014 over the potential AWB that was in the house. Ever since, Ive been getting emails non stop from organizations trying to get me to buy apocalypse seeds, conservative clickbait news, and just god awful spam. Anytime you unsubscribe from one, it signs you up for 5 more. Fuckin awful.
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