NRA, Gun Groups See Membership Soar After Florida Massacre

Anti-gun zealots never learn. They attempt to ban or to limit guns/ammo, sales go through the roof. Then they malign the National Rifle Association by calling its members "terrorists" only for NRA membership and the membership of other gun-rights groups rise.

I was already an NRA member and joined the Second Amendment Foundation last week as a result of this. I'm now joining the Gun Owners of America. I dedicate these two decisions to everybody who hates the Second Amendment, including but not limited to the lying media and to the thousands of utterly ignorant people who couldn't tell a buttstock from a charging handle.

Over a dozen plus leaders from gun rights organizations and shooting associations in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia told Time (magazine) their membership base has seen a dramatic increase since the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 killed and 16 wounded or injured.

“As soon as anti-gun attacks started coming in on Twitter, Facebook, and in the media, we began to hear from people who didn’t even own guns who wanted to join up or contribute out of solidarity in defense of the Second Amendment to the Constitution,” said Patrick Parsons, who heads the Georgia Gun Owners, an independent gun rights organization in Georgia. Parsons added the group’s membership, which he estimated at 13,000, had increased by 1,000 after the Florida shooting, and that he had been “working around the clock taking calls, answering emails from interested people, sending out new member packets.”

The Connecticut Citizens Defense League, which has a membership of almost 29,000 people, said it typically gets 15 or 20 applications a week, but received almost 200 in the last week.

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NRA, Gun Groups See Membership Soar After Florida Massacre