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The Association and its patriotic members deserve an enormous amount of credit.” Through it all, the NRA has emerged stronger – better positioned to fight for its members and their freedoms. “The safety and well-being of our staff and members is paramount. “With respect to questions comparing figures from a pre-pandemic 2018 to 2020 (figures during a worldwide pandemic), the NRA, like many others, continues to confront this global pandemic that forced the cancellation of many events and impacted revenue streams,” Hunter said. But it did argue many of the struggles faced by the NRA in recent years have been the result of the pandemic. The NRA did not respond to questions about why the report clashed with previous claims the organization had 6 million members in 2018. And we are confronting a New York Attorney General who openly vowed to destroy our organization.” We are driving the passage of constitutional carry – the gold standard of self-defense. “We are winning many battles to elect pro-Second Amendment lawmakers. “We sank an ATF nominee who was adverse to the Second Amendment,” Hunter told The Reload. As of August 2021, the group recorded north of 4.5 million members.Īmy Hunter, director of NRA Media Relations, described the report as “outdated” and “unaudited.” She said group “is not inclined to discuss non-public business strategies with those outside the organization,” but described it as “very positive.” Instead, membership appears to have fluctuated between roughly four and five million from 2012 to August 2021, breaching five million members only once, in 2018. The NRA has reported up to six million members in previous years, but a graph contained in the document reveals the group’s year-end membership totals never even reached 5.5 million. Though the numbers fluctuate based on election years and in the aftermath of high-profile mass shootings, the report also shows a steady decline in membership year-over-year after reaching a peak in 2018. The document reveals a relative stagnation in overall membership totals since at least 2013. The document, which contains the NRA’s financial statements as of August 31, 2021, shows an organization continuing to slash spending as it fails to retain dues-paying members. Mark Walker’s campaign spent a combined $200 on membership fees to the NRA in October and November.The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) struggles with declining membership appear to have continued well into 2021, internal financial reports obtained by The Reload show. Trent Kelly’s campaign spent $750 on NRA membership in December 2017, while North Carolina GOP Rep. Fleming is an official at the Department of Health and Human Services. A Trump administration political appointee, John Fleming, was among nine former members of Congress whose campaign committees also paid for NRA membership. senators and nine current members of the House have used campaign money to pay the cost of membership to the powerful gun rights lobby or its related entities since 2004, with the outlays ranging from $25 to $1,500, according to Federal Election Commission records. In some cases, though, the funds flow the other way, too: Lawmakers use campaign money to pay membership dues to the organization. Many members of Congress receive campaign donations from the National Rifle Association. A participant at gun rights rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash.