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lrb111 wrote:

mr.72 wrote: Really? So if I buy my 15 year old daughter an associate membership to the NRA, then that results in another vote for some politician? .

Basically, Yes. Get her a membership now, she will be 19 before the next full national election.

That was a rhetorical question.

lrb111 wrote: Membership equals votes to politicians. So, does 10 members each with a million$ or 10 million voters with a $ carry more weight to a politician?

Really? So if I buy my 15 year old daughter an associate membership to the NRA, then that results in another vote for some politician?

If the membership numbers were so important, you'd think the NRA would advertise that number pretty prominently. Alas, they don't. In fact I recently spent more than a little while trying to dig up the NRA's membership numbers on the internet and could only find estimates, nothing official from the NRA at all. Still those NRA members do not equate to votes in Washington. If the NRA had 100,000,000 members, then maybe that would make a big difference.

There are probably 170 million or more registered voters in the USA. The 4 million or so NRA members is not some huge voting bloc, even if all of them voted, every single time.

Commander wrote: NRA needs all the members it can get.

Really? Do they need members or do they need money?

I would think there is a certain amount of overhead cost involved in managing a member of the NRA. They'd probably rather have 10 members donating $100M each than 100M members donating $10 each.