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Tom Selleck will remain a member of the NRA but leave the directing up to other members of the board. (Photo: Selleck/Instagram)

One of the most recognizable faces of the NRA is stepping down. This year Tom Selleck will leave the NRA board of directors for work reasons. He served as a member of the board for the past 12 years and gained membership at the age of 8.
As an actor he’s done a lot to represent the NRA as a public and steady supporter of gun rights. As a member of the board of directors of the NRA he’s done a bit less.
“He has nothing to do with policy,” said Selleck’s publicist Annette Wolf. “He’s never been active on the board or anything the NRA engages in. He’s almost always been a silent board member.”
“Tom Selleck has stepped down from the board of the NRA due to his work schedule,” she continued. “Mr. Selleck remains a member of the NRA.”
While he may have participated little on the board, Selleck has done a lot to promote the NRA. His popularity drew memberships and donations, and he personally donated firearms from his TV and movie projects to the NRA Museum over the years.

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Selleck donated this Shofield from “Crossfire Trail” to the NRA Museum. (Photo: NRA)

Some people might see this as Selleck distancing himself from the gun rights organization. Others will think he is making room for new leadership on the NRA’s board of directors.
Last year former president and current board member Marion Hammer called for a ban on bump stocks for rifles. Her support for new forms of gun control shocked NRA members and gun-rights advocates.
Actions like these have led many gun owners to believe that the NRA, or at least some of its leaders, were weak on Second Amendment issues. Or worse, that they were willing to scare gun owners into raising more money for the NRA by increasing the likelihood of future forms of gun control.
There has been a rise in tension between these softer members and so-called “gundamentalists” of the NRA. Hammer even called them “the enemy within.”
Adam Kraut, a prominent gun rights attorney, is one gundamentalist running for membership on the board of directors. As a member of the Firearms Policy Coalition and Firearms Policy Foundation, Kraut has proven to be a Second Amendment purist.
Last year many fresh faces were added to the NRA board including Ronnie Barrett of Barret Firearms, Magpul’s Dwayne Liptak Jr. and Smith & Wesson shooter Julie Golob
________________________________                 I myself while being a Life Member of the NRA. Think that Guns of America is a much more effective outfit in the fight to save our Civil Rights here in the USA. Grumpy

GREENVILLE, SC, USA & HALIFAX, NS, CANADA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates August 2018 firearms sales at 1,001,981 units, a year-over-year decline of 6.3% from August 2017. Likely single-unit handgun sales (529,087) fell year-over-year by 5.6% and single-unit long-gun sales (399,884) fell year-over-year by 8.8%.
All other likely firearms sales (73,010) increased year-over-year by 3.3%. This includes so-called “multiple” sales where the allocation between handguns and long-guns cannot be determined from the data record.
Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting’s firearms unit sales estimates are based on raw data taken from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), adjusted for checks likely to be unrelated to end-user sales. The FBI’s raw numbers (for August, some 2,026,309, the highest August number on record) cannot be taken at face-value as very large numbers of background checks are unrelated to end-user sales. For example, in August the state of Kentucky conducted about 394,000 so-called permit checks alone whereas end-user checks at firearms retailers likely amounted to just over 16,000 checks.

Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer comments that “as expected, likely firearms sales increased from July to August 2018 as the slow-sales summer season ebbs away, but the sum total of likely U.S. firearms sales for the first eight months of 2018 is, at 8.8 million units, considerably below the 9.2 million units sold in the first eight months of 2017, let alone the 10.2 million units for the first eight months of 2016.”

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