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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts) Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:24 PM Mar 2018

Anybody here have financial stats on NRA? How much do they have incoming from members?

How much from gun related manufacturers? And

AND

how much do they annually spend on politicians?

Do the figures not match up?

We know they are getting money from Putin now or oligarchs, but maybe they have been for a while.

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Anybody here have financial stats on NRA? How much do they have incoming from members? (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 OP

Opensecrets underpants Mar 2018 #1

Thanks Faux pas Mar 2018 #4

They have multiple fronts hexola Mar 2018 #2

I'd like to know how much of the membership are Americans? hexola Mar 2018 #3

I would like to know how many are living. DURHAM D Mar 2018 #10

And there are lots of people who support them and claim to be members... hexola Mar 2018 #12

If they are a non-profit, I think their numbers have to be public. Right? Equinox Moon Mar 2018 #5

So, a modest spending to Republicans and then this... Equinox Moon Mar 2018 #6

Propublica, links to IRS Form 990s, updated sl8 Mar 2018 #7

Controversy regarding NRA tax filings sl8 Mar 2018 #15

They have two Super PACS which are separate from the NRA membership LeftInTX Mar 2018 #8

NRA-ILA hexola Mar 2018 #9

Pretty sure the NRA-ILA is an internal division of the NRA, not a PAC. n/t sl8 Mar 2018 #16

I only know of one - NRA Political Victory Fund sl8 Mar 2018 #14

Quite a lot I expect, along with huge amounts funneled via the Russians. ananda Mar 2018 #11

They seem to be acting as if they are a third branch of our legislature hexola Mar 2018 #13

underpants

(182,736 posts)

1. Opensecrets

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:29 PM

Mar 2018

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082

Faux pas

(14,657 posts)

4. Thanks

Reply to underpants (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:32 PM

Mar 2018

they are completely wired in, digustipating.

hexola

(4,835 posts)

2. They have multiple fronts

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:30 PM

Mar 2018

Have to consider all those - not just membership

hexola

(4,835 posts)

3. I'd like to know how much of the membership are Americans?

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:31 PM

Mar 2018

They accept international members...

DURHAM D

(32,609 posts)

10. I would like to know how many are living.

Reply to hexola (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 04:21 PM

Mar 2018

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I have been told they don't purge their lifetime members after they die.

hexola

(4,835 posts)

12. And there are lots of people who support them and claim to be members...

Reply to DURHAM D (Reply #10)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 04:23 PM

Mar 2018

Who AREN'T members at all!

And its a bigger number than you might think.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)

5. If they are a non-profit, I think their numbers have to be public. Right?

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:32 PM

Mar 2018

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)

6. So, a modest spending to Republicans and then this...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 03:35 PM

Mar 2018

OUTSIDE SPENDING: $54,398,558
Discloses Donors? YES
Viewpoint: Conservative
Loading Chart

Independent Expenditures: $52,582,309
For Democrats: $265
Against Democrats: $37,010,516
For Republicans: $17,385,437
Against Republicans: $2,281
Electioneering Communications: $0About Electioneering Communications
Communication Costs: $1,816,249

Look at all this money, "against democrats".