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0 pointszepto10y ago0 comments

Is the NRA transparent about its finances? I personally have no idea who supports it.

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wl10y ago· 1 in thread

There have been accusations that they inflate their membership numbers, but conservatively, the NRA has over three million dues-paying members and they claim nearly five million.

I was looking for EFF membership numbers as a point of comparison, but I couldn't find them. Does anyone know where to find them?

zeptoOP10y ago

Those numbers seem easily plausible, but that's not really what I asked - do we have any actual transparency into it, and where else does the money come from? There could be 3m members but that still represent a minority of their support.

DrScump10y ago

How much they (NRA-ILA) spend on lobbying is transparent, duly reported like any other interest group.

ILA is just one facet of what the NRA does; the rest is generally ignored by major media.

(ILA = Institute for Legislative Action, the lobbying arm)

BTW, I'm not saying that the rest of NRA isn't also financially transparent, I just haven't researched that in years.

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