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angrychair

(8,695 posts)
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 03:19 PM Nov 2018

How the NRA makes its millions

How the NRA makes it’s millions in nine easy steps:

step 1: mass shooting
step 2: stoke fear of shootings
step 3: collect money
step 4: ridicule calls for gun control
after mass shootings
step 5: stoke fear of gun control
step 6: collect money
step 7: rinse and repeat
step 8. Agree to carry water for Russian oligarchs
step 9. Launder Russian oligarch money into political campaign contributions

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How the NRA makes its millions (Original Post) angrychair Nov 2018 OP
step 8. Agree to carry water for Russian oligarchs DBoon Nov 2018 #1
Noted angrychair Nov 2018 #2
step 5: stoke fear of gun control mitch96 Nov 2018 #3
The NRA is a relative light weight when it comes to spending on lobbying hack89 Nov 2018 #4
The NRA also takes $ from the weapons manufacturing KCDebbie Nov 2018 #5
Step 10. Every last one of them "six-packed" to death FiveGoodMen Nov 2018 #6

DBoon

(22,356 posts)
1. step 8. Agree to carry water for Russian oligarchs
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 03:33 PM
Nov 2018

step 9. Launder Russian oligarch money into political campaign contributions

mitch96

(13,892 posts)
3. step 5: stoke fear of gun control
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 03:56 PM
Nov 2018

This week end I went to a gun show (keep friends close, enemies closer)
All the vendors were bitching that business is slow, nobody's buying. Even to the point that they said that this administration was bad for their business.
Under Obama they sold like crazy with crazy high prices....
I smiled... Thoughts and prayers..
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hack89

(39,171 posts)
4. The NRA is a relative light weight when it comes to spending on lobbying
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 03:56 PM
Nov 2018

they are not even in the top 20. I have never understood why gun control groups can't raise as much as they do - there is certainly plenty of money to be had for Democratic causes.

 

KCDebbie

(664 posts)
5. The NRA also takes $ from the weapons manufacturing
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 04:33 PM
Nov 2018

Industry to make sure that this nation, the ONLY market in the world in which they can sell their products to the civilian population, is always open for their business of selling guns!

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