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Swordsmyth
08-18-2019, 06:27 PM
As the National Rifle Association flounders, some upstart pro-gun groups see an opportunity to become the nation’s most influential gun rights organization.
The groups say they’re attracting new members and raking in donations. They’re hiring additional staff to work on grassroots advocacy and lobbying. One is going so far as to discuss at a conference in September how to fill the void left by the NRA, which has struggled to address internal squabbles and accusations of financial mismanagement.
“There are a lot of NRA members that don’t like the infighting, don’t like all the lawsuits, don’t like some of the spending that’s been talked about in the press,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation. “A lot of them — they want to defend gun rights, they’re not going to stop defending gun rights, they’re just looking at other places to do it.”
Several of the organizations vying to unseat the NRA as the nation’s top gun advocate are considered more aggressive advocates of the Second Amendment and include the Gun Owners of America and the National Association for Gun Rights, as well as the more moderate Second Amendment Foundation. Their moves come as Congress and President Donald Trump are discussing new gun restrictions after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as well as an upcoming presidential election for which turning out gun owners will be a top priority for Trump’s campaign.
“As an organization, we don’t use Gucci-loafered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. in $200,000 wardrobes to grease the palms of weak-kneed politicians to vote right,” said Dudley Brown, president of the National Association for Gun Rights, referencing the NRA chief executive’s purported lavish spending. “Instead, we activate our members to do that lobbying for us and for them. That’s the power in a grassroots lobby and NRA lost that a long time ago.”
The Second Amendment Foundation and its advocacy wing, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have each seen donations increase 20 to 25 percent from April to July, compared with the same period in 2018, in part because of the controversies surrounding the NRA, said Gottlieb. He would not provide detailed accounting of the donations.

Similarly, Gun Owners of America, said it raised so much money in recent years that it could last five years without additional funds — but also wouldn’t provide detailed figures. The National Association for Gun Rights, meanwhile, said it spent more on pro-gun lobbying than the NRA in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook mass shooting in 2012. It boasts it has 4.5 million (https://nationalgunrights.org/about-us/)grassroots activists, a little less than the around 5 million members the NRA claims.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/rival-gun-groups-look-fill-121307491.html

Anti Federalist
08-18-2019, 08:43 PM
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SAF? - Member. https://www.saf.org/join-saf/

NAGR? - Member. https://nationalgunrights.org/join/

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Anti Globalist
08-19-2019, 08:57 AM
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