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bpositive

(423 posts)
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:53 AM Feb 2018

NRA is a business, right?

I posted this earlier on another post but felt like it should stand alone.

Those that fund the NRA are indirectly funding the politicians. How many of those asking for reforms belong to the NRA? Stop funding the NRA and business goes bankrupt.

The organization's overall revenue, which includes membership dues, program fees and other contributions, has boomed in recent years – rising to nearly $350 million in 2013. The majority of this money funds NRA initiatives like member newsletters, sporting events and gun safety education and training programs.

A CNNMoney analysis of federal campaign finance records shows that much of this money comes from everyday Americans. And these contributions, which the NRA uses to keep pro-gun lawmakers in office, are on the rise.

http://money.cnn.com/news/cnnmoney-investigates/nra-funding-donors/index.html

Think of the advertising campaign...

Your membership in the NRA contributes to to the death culture! You can help stop the murder of young children. Talk to your friends and family... Stop the funding of terrorism- stop paying your NRA dues, stop contributing to the death of the innocent. Hell, the campaign writes itself. So much material to work with. Guilt the fuckers to stop this madness.

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BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. I would talk to NRA members and gun owners
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 10:06 AM
Feb 2018

but I don't know any by choice. I have never even seen a gun. I heard a bullet whiz by my face and shatter the glass door next to me while walking down a safe, busy street in San Diego by someone who drove past my friend and me one evening. That's as close as I want to get to a gun thank you.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. Agree 100%. However, these are some of the NRA leadership, elected by the members.
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 10:11 AM
Feb 2018
This tells you something about the members.






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Robert K Brown -- publisher or white wing militia mag Soldier of Fortune




Some more --


Robert Keene -- The former NRA president is the former chairman of the American Conservative Union. In 2003, his son was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing at another driver during a road rage incident.

Ronnie G. Barrett
Founder of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing and inventor of the .50 sniper rifle, which can penetrate armor from more than 4,500 feet and is legal for civilian purchase in 49 states.

Grover Norquist
The president of Americans for Tax Reform is a NRA Life Member and member of the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association. After Newtown, he echoed the NRA’s line: “We have got to calm down and not take tragedies like this, crimes like this, and use them for political purposes.”

Larry Craig
The former Idaho senator sponsored a 2005 law protecting gun makers from liability in connection with their products being used by criminals. The NRA spent $1.8 million on lobbying Congress that year.

Numerous other heads of gun and lethal weapons accessories companies.

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Plus there are millions more of gunners who support the NRA's agenda -- including swiftboating Obama, Kerry, Clinton, and local candidates that don't support more guns -- who are just as fanatic about guns, but are too cheap to pay dues.







mopinko

(69,804 posts)
3. i wonder how much of their money even comes from dues.
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 11:11 AM
Feb 2018

not all "members" actually pay dues.
ali velshi said the other day that he owns a gun, and when he bought it, he got an nra membership, unasked, and unpaid for. he says every year they send him a renewal. he has never paid, but every year they count him as a member.

you have to wonder how many members are phony.

follow the money.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
7. Probably both (c)3 and (c)4
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 12:59 PM
Feb 2018

You have to be a (c)4, which is a PAC, to give money to or advocate specific parties and candidates.

501(c)3's are supposed to be tax-exempt educational organizations -- they can educate and advocate for policies, but not candidates.

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