Three days after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 21 dead, attendance was down at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston, Texas. The expected number of attendees was 55,000, according to organizers before the event. The last time the NRA annual convention was held in Texas, 86,000 people reportedly attended.
The organization is also seeing a decline in membership, which came to light in an internal document obtained by The Reload. According to the report, the NRA had fewer than 4,750,000 members in 2021 and more than 5,000,000 in 2018. The steady decline in membership correlates with the decrease in revenue. According to CBS, revenue was down 23 percent between 2016 and 2020.