U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The NRA Foundation hosts fundraisers through Friends of NRA between 1,100 and 1,500 times a year. These draw around 250 people per event. This means the NRA Foundation physically sees about 5% of the total NRA’s membership once a year. While the $70 million raised every year goes to support youth and scout shooting sports and safety programs, women’s defense programs, programs for disabled veterans, and law enforcement. These meeting also act as a bell weather for the shooting community and the activism of the gun owning community.
Participation in up and the monies raised is up. WAY UP!
No other organization sees as many of its members in small groups the way the NRA does. National conventions are nice, but the ability to touch so many members is unique to the NRA and the NRA Foundation.
So what are the NRA members saying? They’re asking one question “How can we help?”.
I’ve said this before; gun owners only get politically active when their rights are threatened. 120,000,000 gun owners realize that our rights are at risk. Today and for this upcoming political cycle, our rights are under attack like never before.
40%+ of registered Democrats want the 2nd Amendment REPEALED! 80% want the banning and confiscation of all semi-automatic firearms. To be blunt I’m not sure they know what they’re being polled about, but the numbers are what they are.
The anti-Trump left thinks the NRA is responsible for DJT’s election, and so they attack the NRA. We’re called terrorists, and baby killers all in an attempt to marginalize the NRA … to silence our voice. All the rallies, the attacks on the NRA, and the name calling are not intended to save lives but to rally votes and to damage or destroy the NRA. They are intended to limit the ability for the NRA to help protect our rights.
A little perspective:
I would propose to you that Barack Obama’s statement that as a Constitutional Law Professor there were real limits to gun control soothed enough fears to let him become President.
I would propose to you that Hillary Clinton’s calls for the banning of all semi-automatics and gun confiscation angered enough gun owners that is cost her the Presidency.
11 Children die every day from texting while driving. That’s 2X the annual number of people killed by guns when drugs or gangs are not involved. That is like ten school shooting a week.
How come no one wants the age to own a cell-phone raised to 21?
The activist left is not about saving lives, they are about ending your rights so they can win elections.
Gun owners only become political when they’re attacked and when our rights are under assault. The anti-gun left called for the repeal of the 2A, and the confiscation of firearms. Will you stand up for your rights and create a red-wave or will you sit on your hands and let your guns be confiscated?
So what can you do?
Join the NRA, write your congressman (here is a link)
Stay informed and subscribe to the NRA-ILA newsletter. I have a link for that too!
We can turn the tide, smack these bastards so hard in the next election that they learn not to touch our rights. You in?
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.
Good article Don!
98% of All Mass Shootings Occur in Gun Free Zones, You Do The Math !
I got an email from them last week telling be I needed to pay my membership or I would lose my valuable benefits and my magazine. My membership is not due until next month and I pay it on time. When it came to the election not to long ago I wrote to them and asked why I didn’t get a ballot. Never heard a peep from them but they sure have their hand out so they can pay the extravagant salaries. I pay and can’t vote, hum sounds like Marxism to me. So I have a few weeks to… Read more »
It is time to call on all parties to stop kicking the can down the road about school security, my suggestion is to get all of the security for all politician security details suspended until they do the maximum school security mandates. They have kicked this since 1999 Columbine and every one of them says it has to be politically correct, more gun control, and of coarse THE COST! What price do we put on our children there is no price that we should put on them! If the government can establish the T S A for Air Port Security… Read more »
Joining the NRA should only be the first step for gun owners. Then GOA and JPFO at least ,both the latter have a no compromise stance as far as I can see. Let us know if it changes! The big money backing the communists in my state right now is flooding the airwaves with non stop devilrat commercials, sickening!! I vote in every election and am very vocal in opposing the communist party candidates. They go by many aliases nowadays! The primary one is democrat,DevilRat -that is!
So again time after time, rather than address the anti gun movement, gun owners squabble over wheatear they will or will not support the NRA. Although not perfect, and let’s face it no one person or organization is perfect, at least the are not the ones that are calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. If they were not the tip of the spear, they would not be the target of those that want to disarm Americans. What gun owners should be and could be doing is supporting as many pro-gun organizations as they can. That’s the only way… Read more »
Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. So restricting someone from texting or talking may be a restriction to their rights. Driving is not a constitutional right. In my state it is called a privilege. Perhaps not allowing anyone to drive before they are 21 is the answer. And think of all the other accidents this could prevent.
Via Reddit comes word that way back in the 90’s, incoming NRA president Oliver North supported the Clinton-era Assault Weapon Ban, and told Larry King that anyone who wanted to shoot an “assault weapon” should join the marines.
Just another point, if they were willing to sacrifice our rights in the past, why does anyone think they will not do it AGAIN in the future, or, present?
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Ok, I just gotta know…… when did the loyal royal blue of our beloved Ronbo Maximus get changed to commie stark raving red? Commie color has always been red. When and how did we get the red for those that love our country and freedom? The red wave was Lenin, stalin, pol pot, Castro, Chavez, Mao,…. if we cant get our representative color back, how can we get our country? As far as the NRA, I am a member, teach their classes, represent them as an rso, but the top needs changed. Everytime someone farts in their general direction, they… Read more »
I will never join the NRA again until they prove to me they will never “compromise” again. The GOA is who I support. “No compromise” The NRA Supported and helped write the Unconstitutional NICS in the 90’s. They originally supported the “Gun Free Zone Act”. Here is what LaPierre said, on behalf of the NRA, when testifying on May 27, 1999, before the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee: “We think it’s reasonable to support the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act.” They helped put these schools in this situation.. Now, it seems they support these “ERPO’s / Extreme… Read more »