100,000
— New NRA members in the past 18 days, according to Politico. The NRA now has 4.2 million paid members. UPDATE: NRA membership, according to US News and World Report, has increased by 250,000 in the month since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Wayne LaPierre delivers a statement on the NRA's response to calls for tighter gun control, in Washington Dec. 21, 2012.
