More bad news for the anti-gun crowd as the Brady Campaign sells its member list to raise cash

Examiner.com [Indianapolis] ^ | June 11, 12:30 PM | Rob Reed

[archy]

As the American public increasingly turns away from the gun control agenda, the leading gun control group has been forced to sell its membership list to raise money.

While NRA membership nears 4 million members, the flagship gun control group, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, has been revealed to have just over 50,000 members.

The once-secret Brady Campaign membership numbers were discovered when gun rights activist and blogger Joe Huffman found that the Brady Campaign was selling its membership list for direct mail marketing.

As Huffman points out, 50,000 members is far below the "about half a million members" that Michael D. Barnes, then Brady president, claimed in a 2004 interview.

That means that either Barnes misstated the "about half a million" number back in 2004 or, if that membership number was accurate, that about 450,000 former members of the Brady Campaign have left the anti-gun group in the last six years.

Either way, it's the latest in a string of bad news for the gun control group.

In my recent article, The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away, I wrote about the staggering drop in donors, funding and expenditures for the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC.

This includes a fund raising drop from $1.7 million raised in the 2000 election cycle to just over $15,000 raised in the 2008 election cycle.

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC is the arm of the Brady Campaign that directly receives and distributes funds to political candidates to influence elections.

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From Eric Thompson, President of TGSCOM, Inc. :

 

 

 

 

As someone that has debated Paul Helmke and the Brady group on national television, I am very pleased to report that I was wrong when I called them "disingenuous". It was far too nice. They are full of s&@t!

It has been found out recently that in order to raise money for their "cause", that they have been forced to offer for sale their member list. One would think that a membership of their stated 500,000 would bring in a pretty penny, but wait, there are only 50,000 names available for sale. On a personal note, this is a little troubling because I and many of my staff are signed up for their organization to keep tabs on what propaganda they vomit up every so often. I have to wonder what sort of lefty email I've subjected myself to now. Anyone else signed up to keep track of the opposition too? I can't imagine that I'm alone here. Which would only further lower their numbers.

Anyway, on top of a big expected win later this month with the Supreme Court, we get this little bit of light hearted news to further discredit the Brady group. Please do your part to spread it around as much as possible and let's see if we can't put them into the history books as the obsolete, lying and disgustingly self serving group of leftists that they are.

Please see the original story here: http://blog.joehuffman.org/2010/05/28/BradyCampaignMembershipNumbers.aspx

The list can be found for sale here: http://lists.nextmark.com/market?page=order/online/datacard&id=163065

 

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[Deagle]

“The brady campaign is an organization dedicated to eliminating a certain weapon, not about punishing those who use those weapons.”

No, they are about eliminating all weapons!

[PA Engineer]

Would be a great list to get hold of. Imagine the lawsuit the next time someone is gunned down in an unconstitutional gun control zone. I imagine there are 50,000 deep pockets to mine.

[Squantos]

Albeit we keep such in the light of day, for they are never really done.

Stick a fork in em........they be toast under their current banner.

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Vigilance, always.

 

 

[mbennett203]

“Doin’ the happy dance... doin the happy dance...” - Baseketball

[detective]

I would bet the 50,000 number is to high and includes ex-members, etc. The real membership number is probably half that.

[archy]

Who would want to be associated with a hate group like Brady??? I sure wouldn’t.

I just KNEW somebody woukd say something like this. Who, you ask? Who else!

[archy]

Would be a great list to get hold of. Imagine the lawsuit the next time someone is gunned down in an unconstitutional gun control zone. I imagine there are 50,000 deep pockets to mine.

Oh, it could go WELL beyond just a matter of lawsuits:

United states Code, Title 18 , U.S. Criminal code, PART I, CHAPTER 13, §ection 241

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death

[PA Engineer]

Thanks. Saved for future reference. There is going to have to be real justice to make this country whole again.