Years of NRA tax returns obtained by The Daily Beast show that the gun group’s revenue has been falling for years. And last year was the NRA’s weakest fundraising year since 2008.
20% of gun owners (including me) claim to lean or be Democrats. That’s a fifth of possible customers you’ll never get a penny from. 44% claim to be or lean republican and the remaining 36% didn’t swing either way or didn’t answer. I’m sure a lot of them also have moved on to more inclusive organizations like you’ve said.
Gun safety and ownership shouldn’t be a political thing, but the NRA makes it one every chance it gets. Like, from my understanding, they’ve been quietly uppity on preventing smart guns from being sold in the US for years now for no reason.
Same. I realize the politicians voting against gun rights are almost all Democrats, but the NRA needs to quit being political and stick to the topics instead of demonizing half their potential membership.
The “gun show” loophole is the “I want to sell my gun to someone who isn’t a firearms dealer” loophole.
Terming it a gun show loophole makes legislators go after gun shows as if dealers are selling firearms there to anybody without a background check.
It also leads into legislation like the recent proposal for preventing non-dealers from turning a profit on gun sales( many guns increase in value over time, discouraging private sales in general)
What most people can agree on is universal background checks for private sales, but because of weasel words the conversation is poisoned.
Yeah, I call it the gun show loophole because that’s the common phrasing, but I see your issue with the phrase. Do you have a preferred name for it?
I personally still think any gun sale should be facilitated through an FFL whether directly or as a third party for the purpose of background checks being done.
Yeah! It’s not surprising.
20% of gun owners (including me) claim to lean or be Democrats. That’s a fifth of possible customers you’ll never get a penny from. 44% claim to be or lean republican and the remaining 36% didn’t swing either way or didn’t answer. I’m sure a lot of them also have moved on to more inclusive organizations like you’ve said.
Gun safety and ownership shouldn’t be a political thing, but the NRA makes it one every chance it gets. Like, from my understanding, they’ve been quietly uppity on preventing smart guns from being sold in the US for years now for no reason.
Same. I realize the politicians voting against gun rights are almost all Democrats, but the NRA needs to quit being political and stick to the topics instead of demonizing half their potential membership.
Shit, or work with the Dems and Republicans to make reasonable gun legislation that everyone can support, for example the gun show loophole IMO.
The “gun show” loophole is the “I want to sell my gun to someone who isn’t a firearms dealer” loophole.
Terming it a gun show loophole makes legislators go after gun shows as if dealers are selling firearms there to anybody without a background check.
It also leads into legislation like the recent proposal for preventing non-dealers from turning a profit on gun sales( many guns increase in value over time, discouraging private sales in general)
What most people can agree on is universal background checks for private sales, but because of weasel words the conversation is poisoned.
Yeah, I call it the gun show loophole because that’s the common phrasing, but I see your issue with the phrase. Do you have a preferred name for it?
I personally still think any gun sale should be facilitated through an FFL whether directly or as a third party for the purpose of background checks being done.
Let it burn to the ground at this point. Other organizations can take up the mantle in a less shitty way.