The NRA is not demographically challenged.

[Kang Colby]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2015/10/30/the-nra-is-not-demographically-challenged/

The recent ongoing controller meme is that gun ownership is dying off. Soon gun ownership will be a relic of the extinct, ageing, uneducated white male they tell us.

I hate to share the bad news with controllers, but gun ownership is increasing across every measurable demographic. This four page piece by Frank Miniter does a good job of cutting through the emotion and getting to the facts.

Its surprising that millenials, who were raised on Call of Duty, and low violent crime rates aren't eager to join the dozen or so controllers on Tuesday afternoons to bang on tambourines outside of HRA HQ.

[LonePirate]

1. How surprising! More RW clap trap from Forbes.

And it offers nothing to disprove the report it aims to discredit, although it attempts to fool readers into thinking it discredits Miniter by providing unrelated stats and studies.

[GGJohn]

2. Yeah, you keep on believing that,

in the meanwhile, firearm ownership is increasing as evidenced by all the new applications for a FOID in IL.

[Eleanors38]

3. USA Today? Pew Research? Right Wing? Ba-WAH-HA!....

The OP cited USA Today (a blood-thirsty outfit which wants GUNZ EVERYWHERE!), and Pew Resarch, which links to its own data under "Growing Public Support for Gun Rights," and the dramatically changing attitudes toward gun ownership among blacks and women.

Just because MSM, in its shrinking impact on public policy, is agit-prop for gun-control doesn't and won't willingly publish even fair articles about guns, doesn't mean you can't find dramatically different findings and accuracy. Findings even MSM allows to slip through.

[msongs]

4. as marketing arm of the gun industry the NRA is quite effective. what piles of bodies? nt

[Silicosys4]

5. What marketing arm?

The millions of dues paying NRA members say differently.

[krispos42]

7. The U.S. gun industry tripled between 2007 and 2013

I'm talking number of guns made. Also, imports of guns doubled in the same seven-year period.

The NRA didn't do that.

The Democratic Party's platform of useless pandering laws and affiliation with disarmament crusaders that care only that a law attacks "gun nuts" has done that.

But keep right on tilting for assault weapon bans as a panacea for mass shootings.

[bluestateguy]

6. Yes I always knew that

The NRA and gun owners in general are not demographically dying out.

The Republican Party, however, is another story.