Less than half of the NRA’s revenues come from program fees and membership dues./The bulk of the group’s money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources./Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program. Donors include firearm companies like Midway USA, Springfield Armory Inc, Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems, and Beretta USA Corporation. Other supporters from the gun industry include Cabala’s, Sturm Rugar & Co, and Smith & Wesson./The NRA also made $20.9 million — about 10 percent of its revenue — from selling advertising to industry companies marketing products in its many publications in 2010, according to the IRS Form 990. /Additionally, some companies donate portions of sales directly to the NRA. Crimson Trace, which makes laser sights, donates 10 percent of each sale to the NRA. Taurus buys an NRA membership for everyone who buys one of their guns. Sturm Rugar gives $1 to the NRA for each gun sold, which amounts to millions. The NRA’s revenues are intrinsically linked to the success of the gun business./The NRA Foundation also collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry, which it then gives to local-level organizations for training and equipment purchases./This shift is key to understanding why a coalition of hunters, collectors and firearm enthusiasts takes the heat for incidents of gun violence, like the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, rather than the companies that manufacture and market assault weapons. /The chief trade association for gun manufacturers is the National Shooting Sports Federation, which is, incidentally, located in Newtown, Conn. But the NRA takes front and center after each and every shooting. /“Today’s NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry,” said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center. “While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the ‘freedom’ of individual gun owners, it’s actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory.”
I love the paranoid gripes about how the NRA does this or does that— while the reality is that the voters don’t agree with the anti-gun lobby. The votes versus the whines and whimpers.
Remember: This is a nation that was born when the legal government moved to take guns away from the average citizen.
Wrong again, Martens. While firearm suicides are down, overall, suicides haven’t gone down all that much. All they’ve done is move the means by which people end their lives. This reinforces my claim that liberals don’t care about the people who died; just the means by which they died. It also explains why liberals refuse to look at the causes of violent crime and are focused solely on one tool of violent crime as though ridding the world of that one tool will fix things. We know it won’t, but that won’t stop retarded people from promising it will. Who knows. Maybe they really are so delusional that they actually believe it will work!.So why is gun death so much worse for a liberal than any other death?
And another liberal proves they don’t understand that correlation does not equal causation. The number one method for suicide in Australia is now by hanging. What is the solution now? Ban rope?
BTW; as there are only in the neighborhood of 300 “gun laws” in the country, compare that to laws regarding motor vehicle use and ownership, not the thousands or millions the NRA folks claim, modifying a few existing ones can improve things, like reducing transactions giving crooks or crazies their guns NOT currently illegal, which should be.
Confiscation is NOT necessary to provide better controls and true security. Military weapons btw really don’t belong on the streets, and magazine capacities limited to those legal for hunting aren’t a bad idea for long weapons, and handguns also don’t need more than clips that are contained within the weapon’s grip length.(extended clips aren’t necessary unless you’re spraying the neighborhood, or a REALLY BAD shot.)
Mickey and Delia over 8 years ago
Less than half of the NRA’s revenues come from program fees and membership dues./The bulk of the group’s money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources./Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program. Donors include firearm companies like Midway USA, Springfield Armory Inc, Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems, and Beretta USA Corporation. Other supporters from the gun industry include Cabala’s, Sturm Rugar & Co, and Smith & Wesson./The NRA also made $20.9 million — about 10 percent of its revenue — from selling advertising to industry companies marketing products in its many publications in 2010, according to the IRS Form 990. /Additionally, some companies donate portions of sales directly to the NRA. Crimson Trace, which makes laser sights, donates 10 percent of each sale to the NRA. Taurus buys an NRA membership for everyone who buys one of their guns. Sturm Rugar gives $1 to the NRA for each gun sold, which amounts to millions. The NRA’s revenues are intrinsically linked to the success of the gun business./The NRA Foundation also collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry, which it then gives to local-level organizations for training and equipment purchases./This shift is key to understanding why a coalition of hunters, collectors and firearm enthusiasts takes the heat for incidents of gun violence, like the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, rather than the companies that manufacture and market assault weapons. /The chief trade association for gun manufacturers is the National Shooting Sports Federation, which is, incidentally, located in Newtown, Conn. But the NRA takes front and center after each and every shooting. /“Today’s NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry,” said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center. “While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the ‘freedom’ of individual gun owners, it’s actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory.”
colcam over 8 years ago
I love the paranoid gripes about how the NRA does this or does that— while the reality is that the voters don’t agree with the anti-gun lobby. The votes versus the whines and whimpers.
Remember: This is a nation that was born when the legal government moved to take guns away from the average citizen.
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lesmcf over 8 years ago
The laws we had in the early 2000nds worked fine.
rallsolo over 8 years ago
Wrong again, Martens. While firearm suicides are down, overall, suicides haven’t gone down all that much. All they’ve done is move the means by which people end their lives. This reinforces my claim that liberals don’t care about the people who died; just the means by which they died. It also explains why liberals refuse to look at the causes of violent crime and are focused solely on one tool of violent crime as though ridding the world of that one tool will fix things. We know it won’t, but that won’t stop retarded people from promising it will. Who knows. Maybe they really are so delusional that they actually believe it will work!.So why is gun death so much worse for a liberal than any other death?
rallsolo over 8 years ago
And another liberal proves they don’t understand that correlation does not equal causation. The number one method for suicide in Australia is now by hanging. What is the solution now? Ban rope?
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
BTW; as there are only in the neighborhood of 300 “gun laws” in the country, compare that to laws regarding motor vehicle use and ownership, not the thousands or millions the NRA folks claim, modifying a few existing ones can improve things, like reducing transactions giving crooks or crazies their guns NOT currently illegal, which should be.
Confiscation is NOT necessary to provide better controls and true security. Military weapons btw really don’t belong on the streets, and magazine capacities limited to those legal for hunting aren’t a bad idea for long weapons, and handguns also don’t need more than clips that are contained within the weapon’s grip length.(extended clips aren’t necessary unless you’re spraying the neighborhood, or a REALLY BAD shot.)