NRA raised more in August than any month of 2016, as Biden-Trump showdown nears
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EXCLUSIVE: The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, the political action committee (PAC) associated with the gun rights organization, raised more than $1.7 million in August, beating its August 2016 total and raising more than it did in any month ahead of the presidential election that year.
The $1,725,700 the organization raised in August is almost $240,000 higher than its best month of 2016, March, when it raised just under $1.5 million. The NRA's PAC pulled in $1.4 million in August 2016.
"The NRA is grateful to our members and gun owners for a record-breaking August," NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter told Fox News. "Americans step up when their rights are in danger, and they’re stepping up now because they know the stakes of this election couldn’t be higher."
Hunter added that its August fundraising total "is proof that people want to protect their gun rights and their right to self-defense, and that they trust and depend on the NRA to protect these rights and freedoms."
The fundraising boom comes as the November presidential election between President Trump and Joe Biden, who take fundamentally different stances on gun rights, nears.
The NRA's August numbers are its highest of this election cycle, surpassing the $1,702,369 it raised in March of 2019. But they are not the group's highest numbers ever.
The group reported almost $2.4 million in contributions in March 2018 in the immediate aftermath of the Parkland massacre. It also raised over $1.8 million the following month.
Still, $1.7 million is an exceptional haul for the group, which has endorsed Trump ahead of an election in which the president is looking to defend his incumbency against Biden, whose campaign is being hailed by left-leaning groups as "the strongest gun safety ticket in history" while the NRA is calling Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, the "most anti-gun presidential ticket in history."
NRA spokesperson Lars Dalseide told Fox News last month that Biden "has promised to confiscate guns, destroy the American firearms industry, ban the manufacture and sale of popular semi-automatic firearms as well as standard capacity magazines, mandate that the only guns sold in America will be smart guns, and ban private firearm transfers.”
The Biden-Harris platform on guns, as outlined on their website, is an ambitious agenda that would add significant amounts of regulation and oversight on guns.
It seeks to repeal a law that prevents gun manufacturers from being sued for crimes people commit with guns; limit Americans to buying one firearm per month; ban the importation of "assault weapons" via executive order; require background checks for all gun sales; ban online gun sales; work to require that all guns sol... (Read more)
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