by Don McDougall
United States -(AmmoLand.com)- Gun owners are leaving the Democrat party. That decline in people who identify as Democrat is due to their attacks on gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment.
They may never go back and will not ever vote against gun rights. The anti-gun left will tell you the NRA is made up white guys over 60. 15+ years ago they were right. Today and over the past 15-20 years, the make-up of the NRA has changed. This has ramifications for the upcoming election and the nation as a whole.
So what does the NRA membership look like today?
- 40% women
- 40% minority mostly Asian and Hispanic men and women.
- Sure, the rest are a lot of white guys but the average age is down from 60 to 40-45.
The NRA is more inter-racial, younger and looks a hell of a lot more like America than the anti-gun left would have you think. The gun grabber like Hillary and her ilk are stuck in the 1990’s.
They see the NRA as it was 25-30 years ago. Old – White – needing to lose 30 lbs. They’re simply wrong. The NRA looks like America because it IS made up of average Americans.
Why are the gun banners so wrong? They confuse race with cultural assimilation. The Hispanic families or Vietnamese families that moved here 20-30 years ago have children who are Americans. These new Americans have American dreams listen to American music and are in fact slightly more conservative than their peers and parents. The women are the fastest growing demographic of new gun owners. The apparent assumption that anyone of color or gender will stay a liberal and not assimilate into American culture or change their views is a mistake.
The NRA, NFL, NBA and music,…etc. These new immigrants do what all new immigrants do given the chance – they BECOME LIKE US, they BECOME AMERICANS!
So when the anti-gunners read this (and they do), they will tell you I’m lying. That it is safe for you to hate and vilify the NRA because it is all white and made us of racists who grind baby’s bones to make bread and murder cats as a sacrifice to the goddess Hooku. Oh, and according to many of the left we’re also all “latent homosexuals who worship guns as sexual objects.” The fact is we are all just average people who just want our rights protected and to be left alone.
The anti-gun left wants to define the NRA. They want to tell you who we are, what we believe and what we think. They are 180 degrees off and are incapable of accepting how wrong they are. This is why their insincere calls for gun control fail. This is why their lies fall on deaf ears. The anti-gunners feel safe attacking a group they felt was made up of old white guys.
But when their target audiences are women and minorities, and they make up 40% of the group being attacking they look like fools.
So how can I tell you what the NRA make up is? It’s simple, and while the anti-gunners are crying foul, I am sure of my association and my numbers. You see while the NRA proper does not count the race of their members the Friend of the NRA does. So consider this 1,100 events with an average of 150 people plus per event. The fact is 3% of the NRA members by count come to Friends of the NRA dinners and events. We PHYSICALLY SEE 3% of the NRA membership by count every year. Friends of the NRA raised $600,000,000.00 in the last decade or so for juniors’ programs and women’s programs. Not a dime goes to politics. Women on Target touched close to 1 million women, all 1st-time gun owners and now happy and productive NRA members.
The gun grabbers who think an organization as effective of the NRA and it’s charitable foundations do not know the make-up of their members are just deluding themselves.
Some final statistics that you need to know.
The NRA is 23% Democrat! Only slightly less than the national average for the general population! (The national average is 29% democrat.) The NRA supports ANY politician who respects the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution. They are not a left or right organization. Most of the NRA support goes to the GOP because the GOP supports the 2nd Amendment, not the other way around.
The most popular rifle used in high power competition? AR in all its forms. The gun the anti-gun left want to ban is the most commonly used centerfire rifle used competition today! I wonder if they know that?
Funny thing facts.
About Don McDougall:
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range, you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
And could the writer of this fine piece of factfinding also publish the source of the raw data that led to these facts? Source citations are the first thing needed to produce facts that can be verified.
How did the writer get to his knowledge,for instance about ethnicity of the members, when the NRA does not publish its membership records?
Don I’m not sure why you are so concerned with what anti-gun elements think of the NRA because you are never going to please or satisfy them.You are playing their game by making a race issue out of our Constitutional right to bear arms.They want our guns gone then they take all our rights,you would not please them if every single member was non-White.But most importantly Don,why do you openly disparage White males and White males that are older?Your comments if said about any other race would get you fired and exiled from public life.Don’t play the Lefts aka Communists… Read more »
The one common denominator I keep seeing here, over and over again is the absolute crap the left has bought into, the stunning ignorance of facts among these people.
It is a shame but it is what you get when a corrupt and biased MSM controls all the messaging along with the Progressive dominated educational system.
Sally… not sure what your point is here. There is absolutely NOTHING “disgraceful, disgusting and irresponsible” about legal gun ownership. When it comes to ANY firearm, there is only one (1) salient point… the only important issue is who is wielding that firearm, and why. All else is distracting and useless, smoke-blowing commentary. THERE (and nowhere else) is the entire issue that needs to be addressed. Remember that “common sense” is only common to those who actually HAVE it… you clearly are not included in that group, and I refuse to accept your (or anyone else’s) miserably-mistaken definition of it.… Read more »
This article cites no sources and so I cannot use it to learn from or to discuss with others. Did the author count NRA members himself, or what?
The poor spelling doesn’t help. Did anyone proofread, let alone fact check it?
I am sure with all the kmoney the FONRA has these defects could be corrected and a stronger case made.
Diversity is an issue because in 1967 the NRA supported the Mulford Act to deny blacks the right to carry firearms. It would be interesting to hear if they ever expressed regret over that decision.
I am a NRA member that in the last few years have been attending the Friends of the NRA local dinner. I would love to see tshirts as part of the signup package that say; I AM THE NRA on them, on the back print all the programs the. Let people see see that we are their neighbors and not just nuts that are fixed on overthrowing the government like the libtards want to make them believe.
#1 I’m a WHITE MALE, NOT out of a test tube, I WAS BORN THIS WAY.
#2 You take away the 2nd amendment, you NO LONGER HAVE AMERICA.
#3 I for one is NOT FORCING any one to STAY in this GREAT COUNTRY. I suggest if you REALLY DONT like it here, there’s always CANADA. Fair WARNING, the rate and direction that Canada is going, it will BE just AS BAD if NOT WORSE than Mexico!
I, like many others here, would love to see the sources of the information shared in this article. Specifically, where did you get those numbers since the NRA claims to not gather information about the race of their members.
For now, the number of people of color in the NRA can be gleened from pictures from their rallies…and needless to say not looking too good on the diverisity front…the pictures do not support the position that the NRA is now 40% people of color
Jeez guys. Ur making it so obvious that ur mostly liberals leaving anti NRA comments. And ur voter registration information is public information. U don’t have to sign a release, or verbally offer it, because it’s public. Sorry to squash ur liberal ass opinions. But u are wrong again. ..as always. Bit of advice. ..educate yourself before u open ur mouth about something u don’t know. Makes u look stupid!