NRA’s Political Victory Fund Dwarfs Gun Control Groups’ Fundraising In March

By Micah Rate

The Parkland gun control activists dominated headlines after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They appeared for television interviews and worked with other gun control organizations to hold the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., an event that, according to some estimates, drew more than two million people. Though anti-Second Amendment protesters were out in full force, the National Rifle Association and spokeswoman Dana Loesch pushed back against this rhetoric, and the gun rights organization was able to raise more and more support–and money.

The NRA raised so much money in March that it set a new record for the organization. McClatchy reports:

The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31, the group’s first full month of political fundraising since the nation’s deadliest high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, according to filings submitted to the Federal Elections Commission. The total is $1.5 million more than the organization raised during the same time period in 2017, when it took in $884,000 in donations, and $1.6 million more than it raised in February 2018.

The $2.4 million haul is the most money raised by the NRA’s political …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms