Along a major highway in Kentucky, anti-NRA vandals wrote "Kill The
NRA" across a billboard.
Opponents of the
NRA, which also acts as a powerful lobbying group, and proponents for stricter gun-control laws are planning multiple protests, a "die-in" and advocacy training to coincide with the event.
The
NRA's political action committee, the Political Victory Fund, also grades elected officials on an A to F scale, a shorthand voting guide that steers members to pro-gun candidates.
But the insurance company MetLife discontinued its discount programme with the
NRA on Friday.
The lowest favorability rating was in June 1995, when 42% viewed the
NRA favorably, at a time when the
NRA sent out a fundraising letter calling federal law enforcement agents "jack-booted government thugs" in the wake of the Waco siege in 1993.
Collection of non-tax revenues, among which penalties by other state bodies collected by the
NRA, reached BGN 376 M, up by BGN 51 M from the 2013 target.
The
NRA Cargo Slide by Jotto Gear provides easy access to cargo in a pickup truck or SUV at the campsite or on the job.
Overall, the
NRA spent just north of $25 million on last year's election: $7 million supporting Republican candidates, and $18 million attacking Democrats.
"Is the press and political class here in Washington so consumed by fear and hatred of the
NRA and America's gun owners," he asked, "that you're willing to accept a world where real resistance to evil monsters is a lone, unarmed school principal?" Proponents of gun control immediately rejected the idea, hardening battle lines in a social debate that divides Americans as much as abortion or same-sex marriage.
Seldom has the
NRA gone so long after a fatal shooting without a public presence.
We traditionally endorse a few candidates in hopes of bringing fresh blood into cloistered world of the
NRA Board.
Maurice Collins SC, for Celtic Roads Group, said the
NRA was itself effectively the operator of the M50 and appeared not to have reduced tolls there.