Saturday, September 28, 2013

Friends of the NRA

The National Rifle Association announced on Thursday that Friends of NRA, a grassroots fundraising program, had raised $51 million in 2013, exceeding the total amount raised 2012 by $1 million.
“The program’s growth has been even throughout the country, with average net per event rising $11,000 to nearly $41,000,” the NRA said in a statement. “Year-end forecasts have Friends of NRA generating at least $65 million, a 30 percent increase over 2012.”
Friends of NRA holds banquets across the country to raise money for the NRA Foundation, which supports sport-shooting programs. The grassroots operation has only completed 80 percent of its fundraising events to date.

5 comments:

  1. It's instructive to note that the Brady Bunch's entire budget in 2012 was almost $4,000,000. But sure, an American here and there supports gun control.

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  2. Yes Mikeb, how exactly is the NRA any different than any member of the gun control lobby? Both are supporting a special interest made up of contributors.

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  3. Well, I've always said the passion of gun people is matched by the apathy of non-gun people.

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    1. It's one of the blessings of human nature that evil is supported by weak-minded people with little initiative.

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    2. Then certainly NRA Greg with his hillbilly toothless grin is a weak minded person with little initiative. The deliverance boy supports human death to secure his rights, that's evil.

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