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Audit shows NRA in the red for second straight year: report

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...shows-nra-in-the-red-for-second-straight-year

A new third-party audit of the National Rifle Association’s finances, obtained by OpenSecrets, found the group to be in the red for the second year in a row.

The audit found that after a high-spending year during the 2016 elections, the NRA has seen a sharp decrease in income from dues-paying members for two years in a row.

The audit found that after spending at least $54.4 million supporting President Trump and other Republicans in 2016 races, the group had a deficit of nearly $14.8 million at the end of the year. By the end of the following year, 2017, the NRA had a total deficit of $31.8 million.

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What beside Kavanaugh resigning & this could make me any happier? But what about all that Russian money said to be channeled through the NRA. Where did that go?

Wayne LaPierre should take a big pay cut. I'm sure he rakes it in to be their spokes mouth.

See https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148961/evidence-emerges-nras-russia-connection
 
Let them go under. It won't bother me one bit. I have not liked them for a very long time.
There are still some much more effective pro gun groups out there that are doing a much better job.

I am so glad gun haters ONLY....ONLY....focus on the NRA. Thinking it is the ONLY pro gun group out there.
I love it.

Not one time to you hear them talk about any of the others.

Keep tilting at that windmill you call the NRA. maybe one day it will fall. (snicker)

Then the boogie man that haunts your dreams will be gone.
The hob-goblins of your fears will be driven from the field and you will have won.
(or so you think)
 
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JacksinPA said:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...shows-nra-in-the-red-for-second-straight-year

A new third-party audit of the National Rifle Association’s finances, obtained by OpenSecrets, found the group to be in the red for the second year in a row.

The audit found that after a high-spending year during the 2016 elections, the NRA has seen a sharp decrease in income from dues-paying members for two years in a row.

The audit found that after spending at least $54.4 million supporting President Trump and other Republicans in 2016 races, the group had a deficit of nearly $14.8 million at the end of the year. By the end of the following year, 2017, the NRA had a total deficit of $31.8 million.

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What beside Kavanaugh resigning & this could make me any happier? But what about all that Russian money said to be channeled through the NRA. Where did that go?

Wayne LaPierre should take a big pay cut. I'm sure he rakes it in to be their spokes mouth.

See https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148961/evidence-emerges-nras-russia-connection
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My dad stopped paying dues and cancelled his membership. I will never join, and neither will my husband.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...shows-nra-in-the-red-for-second-straight-year

A new third-party audit of the National Rifle Association’s finances, obtained by OpenSecrets, found the group to be in the red for the second year in a row.

The audit found that after a high-spending year during the 2016 elections, the NRA has seen a sharp decrease in income from dues-paying members for two years in a row.

The audit found that after spending at least $54.4 million supporting President Trump and other Republicans in 2016 races, the group had a deficit of nearly $14.8 million at the end of the year. By the end of the following year, 2017, the NRA had a total deficit of $31.8 million.

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What beside Kavanaugh resigning & this could make me any happier? But what about all that Russian money said to be channeled through the NRA. Where did that go?

Wayne LaPierre should take a big pay cut. I'm sure he rakes it in to be their spokes mouth.

See https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148961/evidence-emerges-nras-russia-connection
Click to expand...

Kavanaugh resigned?
 
PleasantValley said:
Let them go under. It won't bother me one bit. I have not liked them for a very long time.
There are still some much more effective pro gun groups out there that are doing a much better job.

I am so glad gun haters ONLY....ONLY....focus on the NRA. Thinking it is the ONLY pro gun group out there.
I love it.

Not one time to you hear them talk about any of the others.

Keep tilting at that windmill you call the NRA. maybe one day it will fall. (snicker)

Then the boogie man that haunts your dreams will be gone.
The hob-goblins of your fears will be driven from the field and you will have won.
(or so you think)
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Wow. Who guessed it was so important that it needed Tolkienesque prose?
 
SheWolf said:
Kavanaugh resigned?
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It would make me very happy if he did. He could make tons more money as a lawyer on K Street in D.C. That could help him with his gambling addiction, which I haven't heard brought up recently. He had reported big credit card & loan debts that suddenly vanished. Wonder what made them disappear? Being in big debt to some people (brings to mind Tony Soprano) could compromise him on SCOTUS.

Remember the sequence where they screwed over the guy with the sporting good store over gambling debts? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_Out
 
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SheWolf said:
My dad stopped paying dues and cancelled his membership. I will never join, and neither will my husband.
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Since moving to PA, which has much laxer gun laws than NJ, I bought 2 guns for home defense. In each box was an NRA membership application which went right in the trash. I have no interest in helping to support a lobbying group for gun makers.
 
I gave up on the NRA a long way back, I would not be upset if they went under.
 
JacksinPA said:
Since moving to PA, which has much laxer gun laws than NJ, I bought 2 guns for home defense. In each box was an NRA membership application which went right in the trash. I have no interest in helping to support a lobbying group for gun makers.
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I feel the same way. And Dana whatever her name is, is total trash, and says horrible stuff.
 
Of course dues/donations are down, the threat of infringements to the 2nd Amendment have been mostly thwarted. Once we get another justice willing to defend the constitutional right, the 2A will be safe for at least a generation.

We simply don't need the NRA's efforts at the moment. The left is too weak to worry about right now.
 
My grandfather got me a lifetime membership decades ago. I've never sent them a dime but use the 5-15% discount at my local store.

So thanks for that NRA
 
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