Support Project One Million: Texas and help this grassroots effort meet the goal of 1,000,000 NRA members in Texas in 2009.  Join the National Rifle Association (NRA)  and spread the word about the Project.

Why Now, Why Texas?

The NRA is the largest, strongest and most effective civil rights organization in the United States.  It has defended the Second Amendment and the rights of gun owners in Washington, in every state capitol, in the United Nations and even in the flood-ravaged streets of New Orleans when honest, law-abiding Hurricane Katrina victims where systematically disarmed on a politician's whim.  The NRA is also the largest and most respected firearms training and education organization in the country.  More law enforcement personnel and civilians are trained by the NRA and its Certified Instructors than all other students combined.  The NRA is also the world leader in firearm safety training for children and youth, with the NRA's Eddie Eagle Program and the NRA Home Firearm Safety Course setting the "gold standard" for safety programs.  The NRA has done all this on a budget that is dwarfed by the financial support provided to the anti-gun cause and organizations by multi-billionaires and their foundations from the U.S. and abroad. 

So how does the NRA do it?  We,  the members, are the key to our success.  The fact that the NRA has millions of members and has the loyalty of many tens of millions of non-member gun owners is a fact well known in Washington and in state capitols.  So while money is a key element in the NRA's success, it is still the membership that makes us the most effective civil rights organization the world has ever known.  

Why Now?

The 2008 federal elections make it abundantly clear that the NRA must grow at an unprecedented rate the next several months, if gun owners are to protect the Second Amendment and the gains we have made at both the state and federal level in the last several years. That is no typo, I said months, not years. We do not have years before the anti-gun leadership in the Democrat Party start their agenda. If the NRA doubles or triples in membership relatively over night, that will send a chill through the likes of Senators Schumber, Feinstein and Boxer, and even Nancy Pelosi will have to admit that gun control is still a losing issue for their Party. The message will not only be in terms of the total number of NRA members, but also  in the speed with which the membership grew after the 2008 election.

Why Texas?

There are approximately 250,000 NRA members in Texas. Many Texans are surprised to learn that our great State is actually third in terms of NRA membership nationwide.  From time to time, many of us have commented that if every NRA member recruited just one more member, the NRA would double in size. Well, Project One Million: Texas is only asking you to get four new members. I know, I know, but this is Texas and we do everything bigger and better here.  Seriously, this is obviously a very ambitious undertaking and it will not be easy to increase Texas NRA membership fourfold in a matter of months, but it is certainly doable. All of the elements of a successful campaign are present.  Texas sells over 1 million hunting licenses every year. Every one of those licensees should be a member of the NRA. There are no accurate figures for the number of Texans who own guns, but they must number in the millions. All of these people are candidates for membership. Even NRA members have family who have not joined the organization so our recruiting can begin at home! If we can accomplish the goal of 1 million Texas NRA members, then our achievement will serve as a challenge to other states and we can see the NRA with 8, 10 or perhaps even 12 million members! With membership at that level, no one will dare to attack our Second Amendment rights, either in Washington or Austin.

Please join us in this effort and spread the word: Support Project One Million: Texas!

Chas.