Just curious.  I don't know anyone who ever won anything, and someone once mentioned most of those business card car drawings are rigged - it's always a cousin or such.  It's not like anyone checks.  I was curious about NRA, who's reputation can be spotty (accusations of cronyism, etc)

I want to say I've seen people on here talk about guns they have won at NRA raffles at events. I know it was on at least one of the gun forums I read.

I don't know anyone that has won one of their bigger sweepstakes but to be fair I don't know many people that have won anything too big(other than my old dental surgeon winning the lottery and leaving her job).

NRA boasts 5 million members...

I won a 10/22 at a friends of NRA banquet a few years back.  All of the "good" high dollar guns/ prizes did seem to be won by people high up in the supporting orgs. Which was a bit . But then again they drew the numbers live and in front of everyone so I don't see how it could have been rigged

I always forget to send the entry back in.

Those generally tend to be on the up and up - the local ones where they throw everyone's name in the ball, and draw it in front of everyone.  The one's you have to question, are the bigger ones that they send the mailings out for.  It happens, the McDonald's million dollar Monopoly sweepstakes were rigged by one of their executives.  A state lotto was rigged once.  And those are the big ones,with real money that you'd think have some kind of audits and such.  Sweepstakes where you don't necessarily even buy the ticket, but just send in one, or drop a business card, and someone in an office somewhere draw's the winner - like the NRA mailings, those are just ripe for fraud - if anyone is of a mind.  And it seems like someone somewhere is always of a mind...  the car drawing ones from the local dealership are pretty much never legit, from what I've been able to tell.  Since it's "throw in your business card so we can spam you, and you could win a BRAND NEW CAR!!" with no listed rules, etc, are by far the easiest to rig - and not even illegal necessarily.  

I'm not saying the NRA is any more corrupt than any one else, pretty much anyone doing a sweepstakes this way though is one to hold in suspect.  I'm sure the flashlights and backpacks go random generator.  But those top prizes worth 50 grand or more....  You kind of have to wonder.  Especially since they don't even go through the motions of ever even announcing who won.  Why aren't they promoting that?  May not mean anything, the NRA isn't really that good at stuff like this so it could just be ineptitude, but still, you have to wonder...

To be fair if I won one of those piles of guns giveaways they do where you win like 20 plus guns I don't know if I'd want them to advertise my name. Seems like a good way to get robbed. Honestly I think most of them would be in the dealers cosigned section as generally a bunch of the stuff isn't that good or just stuff that doesn't interest me(like the Olympic or DPMs rifles or say a bolt action rifle in a caliber I don't already have as I'd rather just use 308).

If I won one of the trucks or something before it came home it would go to a shop to remove all of the marketing stickers put on it. I don't want to drive around in a Jesse James marked jeep nor one marked with pretty much anything else.

Last year a members wife won a NRA truck.There was a thread about it.

Hell Id probably have to sell the truck or half the guns anyways to pay the taxes as Im sure its either taxed as income or a gift.

do it online



https://nraraffle.nra.org/



 

An Arfcommer's wife won the NRA Truck drawing.

ETA: Beat

And only .0000000001% of the people win.
Defiantly rigged.

The NRA doesn't control them. They're contracted out to a fundraising company. If the contest was rigged, it was rigged by the company who contracted with NRA, or whoever else, to run the fundraiser.

If you want to see it happen in person, go to a Friends of NRA dinner. They get some very nice prizes and they announce the winners at the dinner. If it's a gun, it goes back to a local FFL for transfer. Other stuff goes home with the winner. I've seen some nice prizes. The winners were local people who made use of them.

Sometimes I wonder how many times I am counted.

Surest and quickest way to immortality is an NRA life membership.

But, I've been nominated by my peers for the medal of credulousness, so I've got that going for me. Wayne notified me in a personally addressed and signed letter.

On the bigger prices like the trucks I think most of the time it includes a cash price as well to help cover the taxes(on the money and on the prizes).

In the legit drawings, usually buried in the fine print, is an address you can write to, to get a list of winners. I don't know if you can get that done via email nowadays though.

Did you see the numbers ?

Thats what I was looking for!  Awesome!  Asked and answered