Americans innately know when the federal government is about to make a power grab. Guns sales have skyrocketed since the Newtown, Connecticut massacre. And so has membership to the NRA:
The National Rifle Association, while staying mostly quiet in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Connecticut, has registered an average of 8,000 new members a day since the tragedy, an NRA source told Fox News.
While this broadly aligns with trends seen
after similar incidents in the past, the surge in membership this time is said
to dwarf past trends.
The source, based on his access to an internal
memo prepared by the organization’s membership division, said both the number
of individual contributions to the NRA and their average amount have risen
significantly in this period.
Amid the uptick, the NRA is planning what it
describes as a “major” news conference on Friday. In its first public statement
since last week's shooting, issued Tuesday by an aide to NRA President Wayne
LaPierre, the organization also conveyed condolences to the murder victims'
families and expressed the group's willingness to offer "meaningful
contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
"The National Rifle Association of
America is made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters -- and we
were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and
senseless murders in Newtown," the statement said on Tuesday.
"Out of respect for the families, and as
a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full
investigation of the facts before commenting."
Sources close to the issue had earlier
alerted Fox News that the National Rifle Association would soon start to
"push back" against gun-control proponents.
At least the NRA had the decency to step
aside and allow the families of these victims to mourn before defending our
God-given rights. We can’t say the same
for the Maoist gun grabbers in the Democratic Party.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/19/nra-sees-surge-in-membership-after-connecticut-school-shooting/#ixzz2Fejvm1Oa
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