Facts from the NRA Convention
May19
If you’ve been reading some of the other bloggers, you’ll know things were crazy busy this year. By far, Friday seemed much bigger than last year. (I don’t have numbers to prove it, the interference of the Fire Marshal may have messed with our perceptions, even though I have tried to factor that in.) But, here are actual verifiable numbers.
- 64,329 NRA members came through the Exhibit Hall
- As reported last year, John Sigler made it a goal to raise $100,000,000 in two years to fund NRA programs and get some of them permanently endowed. At the halfway point last year, the NRA Advancement staff raised $60,844,197.31. This year, the final tally has hit $120,113,936 for the Freedom Challenge.
- I mentioned the Gregory Match program earlier in the weekend. The ultimate goal was to raise a total of $6 million. They raised $11,358,054. Another shout out to the Advancement Office for their success!
- About 20,000 members of the military have taken advantage of the free membership program for them.
- More than 6,000 people attended the NRA Annual Banquet. Based on Wayne’s comments last year, this would be a record.
- NRA store sales were ~$357,000 during the Annual Meeting.
- During the convention, NRA sold $861,000 in memberships. That’s a 62% increase over last year.
- The NRA range in Fairfax apparently brings in about $1,000,000 in profit a year.
- From the Second Amendment Blog BashTM perspective, we had 46 publishers participate. We also had the first MSM article written exclusively about us, and it has been tweeted out to more than 5,000 Twitter users so far.
I’ll do another post about the NRA Board of Directors elections results later. There are lots of fun numbers and I need to update some graphs.
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It has come to my attention that some who attended the Bash believe I am lying about the Bash-related figures. Contrary to what is being argued elsewhere, I have actual registration paperwork to back me up.
In addition, it has come to my attention that others may intend to hijack the Second Amendment Blog Bash name to do other events. There is no other use for the name other than for the event at the URL 2ABlogBash.com. Any other should be considered trademark infringement.
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Well, the NRA got a chunk of my change. I upgraded from Life to Patron.
Fun stuff…thanks!
Impressive numbers. Hopefully we can improve them next year.
Bitter,
It was great seeing you last week in Pheonix! Thank you for all of the support and for hosting a great Blog Bash!
BTW, your numbers are dead on….
Joe
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