the NRA represents gun manufacturers NOT gun owners
2000 3.6 million members were claimed
2008 Membership dues reported in tax files dropped by 36.6 percent
2010 4 million members were claimed but dues reported in tax files were HALF of year 2000
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the NRA represents gun manufacturers NOT gun owners
2000 3.6 million members were claimed
2008 Membership dues reported in tax files dropped by 36.6 percent
2010 4 million members were claimed but dues reported in tax files were HALF of year 2000
2013 4.5 million members were claimed
2016 5 people members were claimed
Prior to the 1970s, the NRA was nonpartisan. the NRA mainly focused on sportsmen, hunters and target shooters, and downplayed gun control issues.
During the 1970s, it became increasingly aligned with the Republican Party.
1975 it established its lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA
1977, activists within the organization whose central concern was Second Amendment rights, blamed incumbent leaders for existing gun control legislation like the GCA and believed that no compromise should be made
the organization expanded its membership by focusing heavily
on political issues and forming coalitions with conservative politicians.
Mostly, Republicans
the NRA a 501(c)(4) nonprofit and enjoys tax-exempt status as a
"social welfare" organization. BUT you can't confirm membership
& it offers $40 annual, $100 two-, $100 three-, $140 five-year and lifetime memberships
offers discounted sign-ups ahead of elections , & after high-profile shootings
they continue counting annual members on its rolls even after their membership lapsed
or any " life members" who had actually been deceased but no one thought to update it
a substantial number of the group's 1 million Life Members are dead
the NRA is not required to disclose the sources of
"contributions, grants, gifts, or other similar amounts."
BUT it had 127.4 percent increase 2007 - 2016
vs a 28% membership due tax file drop
tax files only indicates fewer new or renewing members,
the total print circulation of their member subscribed literature
2012 3.1 million
2017.3.7 million
At no point in the past 10 years has ever reached above 4 million,
They represent the people who..
