Who donates to the NRA?

Every time I order from Brownells which is at least monthly, and I am a Life Member.

I started doing it when that O'Malley guy mentioned the NRA during the Democratic Presidential Debate.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Until the Citizens United case though, the NRA was prohibited from certain forms of political speech due to campaigh finance laws.

Do you have a similar chart for the NRA-ILA (Institute for Legislative Action - lobbying arm) or the NRA-PVF (Political Victory Fund - to support candidates)

Aside from my member dues I don't donate to the NRA. I do however donate to the NRA-ILA which the legislative action arm of the NRA. The ILA is the part of the group that works on the legal aspects of gun laws for us.

1) are there large quasi corporate donations that go in the donor category. i.e. the CEO of midwayusa donates $1M. I would consider that a corporate donation

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That would all depend on how it was donated - as Larry Potterfield, concerned citizen, or as Larry Potterfield, CEO of the company and the check was written from the company treasury.

I already mentioned above - I have donated to the NRA-ILA.

Me . I am a life member but supporting the NRA and TSRA is very important !

I donate when I can. That said, the gun industry in America is really pretty small $$ wise. The libs confuse it (or do it to meet their wants) with defense which is NOT the same thing.

I do not contribute when called on the phone. The callers identify themselves as Infocision representing the NRA.

If you do some research, Infocision is a company that was started here where I live and has a somewhat tarnished reputation. They kept a majority of the money that is donated.

I have tried to call into NRA headquarters to find a way to donate money directly, but was thwarted by the calls being routed through Infocision and or stuck on hold for ever.

I refuse to give over .62 cents of every dollar to the solicitation company.

sources of corraboration:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/telemarketers-charity_n_4875269.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigm...nras-wayne-lapierre-gets-paid-to-defend-guns/

http://countingoncharity.blogspot.com/2013/01/fundraising-by-nra.html

http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2013/03/06/telemarketer-delivers-for-nra/

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index...._that_pocketed_89_million_asking_for_cha.html

If you opt out the calls and mailings pretty much end.

There are some good articles on this that I LOVE to throw in Anti's faces:

http://money.cnn.com/news/cnnmoney-investigates/nra-funding-donors/

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/01/do-assault-weapons-sales-pay-nra-salaries/

Life Member.. just signed up for the Benefactor upgrade... also throw some money at NRAILA and SAF.. money folks... they need money.. this is war.. dont forget to vote philosophically.. (ie, not dem, no f'n way)

Right here.

I've been a member since 1986. Donated for years. But when I needed their help,none was forthcoming. Funny how that works.

Mostly just dues, but I decided to start routing more of my donations to Oregon Firearm Federation to help with some of our local issues. It is a war and a long lasting one at that.

There was once a time when the NRA was partially devoted to ensuring the leaders of this country would never consider violating the second. It just wasn't on option and they would never let it come to that. Now the police chiefs, college presidents, states in defiance and, all in between have to tell there students, citizens and, members to arm themselves. You know there a disconnect when you hear the voice of the NRA say from my cold dead hands...

I stopped donating to the NRA because they failed to do the one thing I was donating for them to do... weed through the politics and prevent excessive gun control from ever becoming more than a long and annoying day in office. Children whom could of had world class scholarships for acceding in there application of the second amendment have been denied that right. instead football players are eased through school to get more money.

...Does anyone else feel like It has become just like politics? Government pays themselves greatly but cry's about increases debt, NRA sponsors shooting competitions and even scholarships but then doesn't negotiate to keep those scholarships available. There mission statement and defined objectives are completed when it comes too educating the public, shooting competitions, gun collectors and, hunters. But, what about law enforcement who have to tell citizens what to do, "arm yourself". The children and youth who lost scholarships and the main objective, the second? I honestly can't give money to any association who's spokes person says from my cold dead hands while the majority off loss sustained falls on youth scholarships, PTSD disabled veterans, due process of firearms transfers, law enforcement and, college presidents. Funny thing is that they even failed to educate the majority of citizens or professors bosses wouldn't have to inform college students of the second right any citizen has upon birth here.

Young&Ret., I do not understand what point you're trying to make. When it comes to the "from my cold dead hands" remark, I remember that as coming from Charlton Heston during one of the NRA annual meetings during the course of a speech as NRA president, and it was oft repeated. As president, it's worth mentioning that he did not draw a salary.

oneounceload said:

That would all depend on how it was donated - as Larry Potterfield, concerned citizen, or as Larry Potterfield, CEO of the company and the check was written from the company treasury.

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Excerpt from the FactCheck.org article in a previous thread:

The NRA-ILA, which is the lobbying arm of the NRA, operates a “round-up” program with fewer participating companies, although it has been in existence for longer. Its program was the brainchild of gun store owner Larry Potterfield, the founder and CEO of Midway USA in Missouri. In a video on his website, Potterfield says he started the program in 1992 and the money raised from his customers goes into the “Endowment for the Protection of the Second Amendment.” A few other companies have since joined the program, but Midway customers are still the largest contributors by far. In a Dec. 7, 2012, press release, the company said its customers have donated $7.6 million to the NRA lobbying group since 1992.

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I already mentioned above - I have donated to the NRA-ILA.

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Me too.

Right after the infamous Executive Orders.

ME !!! Since 1958. I decided then and there to help pay for all the lazy so'n'so's who owned guns but were too cheap, lazy, stupid, and slothful to do a damn thing to thwart the anti-gunners.
From there I also worked my way to BENEFACTOR Life Member.
And so it goes...

gripper said:

I've been a member since 1986. Donated for years. But when I needed their help,none was forthcoming. Funny how that works.

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What help did you need that they failed to provide?

LONG story short- I won my case( can be found on the NH Supreme Court web page, opinion from 02/20/2015. Finished the remand,and survived a SCOTUS appeal( Petition for Certiorari). At the start, I asked them for help in 2013. Got told I was on my own. Yet I've had none stop fundraising calls. So,yeah- I'm a bit ambivalent. I " won",but lost everything ( job,got blacklisted in my field in NH). Again, you can read the 13 page NHSC opinion. Still a member. But I tell the fundraisers to call someone they didn't deny resources to when asked. With their help, I could have been done in 6 months vs 2-3 years,and might still have my old job.

Young&ret, you might wanna take another whack at your point; it makes no sense. The NRA has never been as ardent in defending our right as they are now, they have never been more 'radical' or absolutist on this point. Heck, they are probably getting dangerously close to outright supporting our rights to NFA items at this point --a far cry from when that crowd was allowed to be sold downriver at a late hour in the eighties.

The NRA of yesteryear was a bunch of Fudds who wanted the feds to stop interfering with public hunting practices, and that was the extent of their 'advocacy' for our RKBA. The helped pass the 34 NFA, were ambivalent or impotent about the 68 GCA, and it wasn't until the Brady Bill & 94 AWB that the naiive, selfish old Fudds finally started to be purged from the important chairs in leadership, and the organization started to care about things like handguns, self defense, concealed carry, and made assault weapons their battle flag. Anyone who hates 'what the NRA has become' has failed to realize that decades of unchecked aggression by the anti's have driven the organization to this point of defiance. Not one step further.

Now, next we need to start stepping forward, but let's first resist this present onslaught of coordinated propaganda & media-fixing by 'our' president.

TCB

I'm not really happy with the leadership of the state rifle association in my state. The NRA has done quite a bit in Illinois, seems to be more PR savvy and they're more effective at calling the Illinois anti-gunners(like Barrack Obama) on their hypocrisy. This recent NRA video is a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ4ScTbrl84&feature=youtu.be

Anyone who hates 'what the NRA has become' has failed to realize that decades of unchecked aggression by the anti's have driven the organization to this point of defiance.

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Illinois violated the human rights of the hapless Americans who were unfortunate enough to live within its borders for almost 52 years, including 5 years AFTER the Heller decision.