NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!.....

washingtonexaminer ^ | 4/1/2019 | Paul Bedard

[caww]

The National Rifle Association has recovered from a membership drop after President Trump’s 2016 election and is now at the highest levels ever 'in its history'...New figures put the membership at approximately 5.5 million.

Typically the gun lobby membership dips after elections, especially in nonelection years like this year. But officials said it is “holding steady” at unusually high levels, an indication that members are steeling for the upcoming presidential election.

The positive news for the NRA comes amid lingering concerns about a costly New York fight. It prompted Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre to write a letter to supporters warning of a negative court ruling.

But some NRA officials said that the case is going well and they expect an eventual victory.

Many new gun advocates signed up as annual NRA members after the latest gun control fight and have since continued their membership.

What’s more, there are expectations that membership in the NRA will continue to grow going into the 2020 elections that will pit NRA fan Trump against gun control Democrats. The group is just at the beginning of its series of annual events around the country where new members typically join, such as the upcoming April 26-28 national convention in Indianapolis.

[JudgemAll]

Ehhh! Red flag law NRA. Fix NICS NRA. Bumpstock ban NRA... and on and on...

Brainwashing for a new generation of Fudds.

[Fungi]

Can you translate that into readable English please? Thank you.

[Inyo-Mono]

So I take it that you are anti NRA? You wouldn’t even be able to own a BB gun today if it wasn’t for the NRA.

[Innovative]

Excellent.

The NRA is doing a lot of important work, protecting our 2nd Amendment rights.

They need our support.

[laplata]

I take it that you take the Second amendment for granted and don’t think that it’s threatened.

[cquiggy]

Great News ! If it weren’t for the facts. That is a very small number if you take into consideration the number of gun owners in the USA. Not to mention the number of background checks done every month. And yes I know that the background check numbers reflect repeat buyers and random repeat background inquiries done by law enforcement agencies like they do here in KY. Here’s where sadly the NRA is missing the opportunity to double or triple there membership numbers. Just the number of new gun buyers alone should be a huge driver of new membership. Who better to want the guidance and advice of the NRA than a new buyer with possibly no gun experience many of whom are women. It’s time for the NRA to figure this out. More money for membership. Less spending on ridiculous junk mailings. I am the NRA Life Member in fact. I don’t need Junk Mail. I need a larger membership to help me insure that my rights are not infringed.

[onyx]

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[Yogafist]

Well, the NRA did, once, withhold an endorsement for a Senate candidate because their membership was angry that they intended to endorse Harry Reid.

[TigersEye]

The DemoRats have been pushing for gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month
  —
  the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[wjcsux]

You are right on the money. The NRA has fought for our rights through thick and thin.

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[Renegade]

NRA better get off it’s azz and file against Pittsburgh recently passed law banning AR’s.

[USS Alaska]

You are right on the money. The NRA has fought for our rights through thick and thin.

Until the demonRATs went full crazy, anti-gun, the NRA would regularly back demonRATs over pubbies. Many of us would get pissed but back then, the demonRATS were a different party. Some demonRATs were very pro-gun and the NRA was a single issue lobby.

Having been a NRA member since the late 60s, I will say that the NRA has been 100% pro-gun owner, even if they did back some demonRATs over pubbies because the demonRAT had a proven voting record in favor of the 2nd Amendment.

[JudgemAll]

Horsecrap. The NRA is progressively pushing gun control.

They do these PR moves to get adherents and then they pull out, just like when the Komen Breast Cancer started claiming they were pro life only to reverse after the donations came in

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