TheDC Exclusive: NRA spends $20 million this cycle

[Paladin]

By the time voters go to the polls Tuesday, the National Rifle Association will have spent a total of $20 million dollars this cycle on the election




Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/01/th...#ixzz148FSK2J6

[yellowfin]

Interesting that we defend our country from the outside with hundreds of billions of dollars but only 20 million from the greater threat from the inside. The lopsidedness of priority is utterly disgusting.

[Paladin]

Interesting that we defend our country from the outside with hundreds of billions of dollars but only 20 million from the greater threat from the inside.

That's the difference between our gov't spending tax dollars and the NRA spending our donations.

Related: the US population is, IIRC, about 330,000,000. There are an estimated 90,000,000 gun owners, yet there are only about 4,000,000 "current" (paid up) NRA members.

Perhaps someone should post a poll, esp in the OT forum, asking how many CGN members are currently NRA members? I wouldn't be surprised if less than 1/3rd of CGN's 15.5k "active" members are current NRA members. Too many Calgunnies gripe about the sad state of our RKBA in CA, yet aren't willing to pull their own weight.

[wash]

In protest of some of the bad moves NRA makes (interfering with the Heller and McDonald cases then taking credit...), I am not a member and will probably not join any time in the near future.

In California which is one of the leading edges in the fight for second amendment rights, NRA hasn't done enough and nationally they have done things that might not hurt a state with RKBA in their state constitution but could devastate our rights.

NRA needs to change.

They probably do more good than harm but they need to greatly improve that ratio.

[mblat]

In protest of some of the bad moves NRA makes (interfering with the Heller and McDonald cases then taking credit...), I am not a member and will probably not join any time in the near future.

In California which is one of the leading edges in the fight for second amendment rights, NRA hasn't done enough and nationally they have done things that might not hurt a state with RKBA in their state constitution but could devastate our rights.

NRA needs to change.

They probably do more good than harm but they need to greatly improve that ratio.

probably? Besides..... all right you have differences with NRA.... do you have differences with SAF? If yes, what are they? If not - when have you donated last time?

[wash]

At GRPC I handed some cash to Alan Gottleib.

Next question.

[dfletcher]

At GRPC I handed some cash to Alan Gottleib.

Next question.

That's good and more than most do - but in a way, does it count as much as an organization being able to total your name on a membership board? To pollute a line heard a while back "There were 500,000 people at Woodstock. If I hadn't gone there would've been only 499,999 - that wouldn't have been quite as impressive."

[Havoc70]

I am a life member of the NRA, but I don't usually donate to the NRA-ILA. Every time they sent a "Donate X amount and we'll send you this cool stuff" I never got the cool stuff, so to hell with 'em. While that may seem petty, I look at it as "if you can't honor even this agreement, what honor do you have?". If I was an annual member of the NRA I probably wouldn't renew.

Last month I donated $200 to CGF, and I feel better about that than anything else .

[wash]

That's good and more than most do - but in a way, does it count as much as an organization being able to total your name on a membership board? To pollute a line heard a while back "There were 500,000 people at Woodstock. If I hadn't gone there would've been only 499,999 - that wouldn't have been quite as impressive."

That was just the last time.

I don't want to toot my own horn but I do as much as I can.

[bwiese]

In protest of some of the bad moves NRA makes (interfering with the Heller and McDonald cases then taking credit...), I am not a member and will probably not join any time in the near future.
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In California which is one of the leading edges in the fight for second amendment rights, NRA hasn't done enough...

They probably do more good than harm but they need to greatly improve that ratio.

Wash,

Gene, Brett, Brandon and many other CGx'ers are NRA members (all lifers I believe).

While some of us may ***** & moan about a certain national legal strategy here or there, it's kinda nice there's a big dog in the room, especially legislatively. There IS a reason we own Congress They do a HUGE amount of good, and we CGFers do not want to take away from that especially political aspect.

CA NRA team is doing as much as it can in CA against huge odds - but is unfortunately a bit quiet about it. Someday soon - I'm sure there'll be a venue - I'd love for you to have a chat "without spin" with our CA NRA boys, Paul Payne and Ed Worley and CA director Joel Friedman. There's a lot going on these great guys are helping with.

I'll also add that if NRA could double (and maintain at that level) its membership both in CA and nationally (and CRPA gets to 100K) we get to "go psycho", politically speaking, with the ATF offering free gunsmithing services to us and Alison coming over to wash & wax my gunsafe.

[wash]

Yeah, I know.

And I know that CGF board members know what's up but many people do not.

At the same time I don't think NRA will change on a national level unless they get called out when they screw up. That's why I protest.

[bwiese]

Yeah, I know.

And I know that CGF board members know what's up but many people do not.

At the same time I don't think NRA will change on a national level unless they get called out when they screw up. That's why I protest.

I think the screwups are small / repairable over time, and the successes are big.

Anytime you can mark up a credit card bill to allow guns in national parks, etc. you own the room.

[blackberg]

well remember, if you are NRA member, you can VOTE, and start influencing what they do, imagine if a good majority of CA firearm owners and enthusiasts where members, we would have a larger voice nationally.

You dont have to give them money beyond your yearly fee, give it to the CGF instead.

Same goes to the the CRPA.

Join the NRA, Join the CRPA, Donate to CGF

-bb

[greybeard]

Yeah, I know.

And I know that CGF board members know what's up but many people do not.

At the same time I don't think NRA will change on a national level unless they get called out when they screw up. That's why I protest.

Trying going to a few Member's council meeting and see what is going on.

[N6ATF]

Seems as if NRA's $20 million went way further than victim disarmer Whitman's $200 mil or whatever it ended up being.

http://volokh.com/2010/11/02/2d-amend-results/