NRA: Membership has grown by a quarter million in one month
A day before President Barack Obama is scheduled to release Vice President Joe Biden’s recommendations to curb gun violence in the United States, the National Rifle Association told U.S. News and World Report that they have seen membership grow by 250,000 in the month since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Politico reported membership had grown by more than 100,000 five days ago. The NRA says that when Politico reported the story, membership was close to 200,000, but the number has drastically grown in just five days. The association now has over 4.25 million members, but the NRA says that number is always fluctuating as memberships expire and new members join.
“I would say that every time President Obama opens his mouth and Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein opens her mouth and they talk about gun bans and restricting the rights of law abiding Americans, people pay attention to that and sign up,” says Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA’s public affairs director.
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Gun Control, EPA, Obamacare, Drilling Ban, Tax Rates, Distribution, and few other I can’t remember right now. I feel like we are getting close to a Ft. Sumter State Right moment.
Oil Can on January 16, 2013 at 12:45 AM
Oathkeepers needs some members.
Oathkeepers is not a militia group. It is not a fringe group.
It is a group of former veterans who’ve committed to uphold the Constitution and who’ve sworn to never raise arms against American citizens who are in the act of defending their Constitutional rights. They’ve sworn to uphold their oath to the Constitution and not to any politicians.
Charlemagne on January 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM
Excellent call. It was a wonderful idea, whoever created it. I don’t think you can be a former veteran, though, can you?
The Rogue Tomato on January 16, 2013 at 12:49 AM
We live on a tight budget and can’t really afford much outside of bills, food and gasoline, but my wife’s been talking to me lately about getting a gun – for hunting (but conceivably for home defense too). The more she hears Obama et al. talking, the more she wants me to get a gun. I told her I’d want to get two. Rifle for hunting, shotgun for home defense. Forget the hand gun. A shotgun being racked is a sound most people recognize, especially burglars.
Logus on January 16, 2013 at 1:00 AM
Hypocrisy
Schadenfreude on January 16, 2013 at 1:02 AM
Too expensive for my taste.
mythicknight on January 16, 2013 at 1:38 AM
Looks kind of like a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object and evincing a design to reduce people under absolute despotism.
And, yeah, you haven’t even begun to identify everything that’s been put ‘on the table’.
Dusty on January 16, 2013 at 2:54 AM
I just became a life member yesterday.
The Count on January 16, 2013 at 6:37 AM
I became a life member of the NRA. There is a special right now, $300 instead of the usual $1000.
meci on January 16, 2013 at 7:12 AM
Not True. The link is spam.
MikeA on January 16, 2013 at 7:22 AM
They really are running that deal, though.
mrsknightley on January 16, 2013 at 7:31 AM
I gave NRA memberships (and license plate frames) for Christmas, to a handful of family and friends – it was a real hit.
Pork-Chop on January 16, 2013 at 7:49 AM
Just renewed my NRA membership after letting it go a couple years ago. Now looking at a couple other gun owner rights groups to join and support as well.
Logus, I understand where you are coming from. But you have one in the pipe if it is for self defense reasons. Never leave your firearm as effective as a hollow metal pipe.
The first sound someone wanting to do you and yours harm is “BOOM” and if they are still conscious afterwards, they will be too deaf to hear it racking in the next round.
If the bad guys hear you “racking” one in, they’ll shoot/attack immediately before get you a chance to point and pull the trigger.
And yeah, while a handgun is just there to help you get to your long gun, when you are out and about (if that’s your intent), concealing a handgun is a lot easier than concealing a shotgun.
But if strictly for home defense…many people agree that a shotgun is the way to go. But that’s gigabytes of forums with different beliefs and viewpoints
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Answer: Both!
ProfShadow on January 16, 2013 at 8:41 AM