2023 NRA Convention

[Whip_McCord]

I had a great time at the NRA convention. The media lied to me, they said they would be an army of moms demanding action ready to destroy me as I approach, and all I saw outside were vendors on break having a smoke.

I cannot believe the media would not give you 100% honest reporting.

 

[Whip_McCord]

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This could hold all kinds of free stuff.

The bag comments above reminded me of something I witnessed. I thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

A few years ago I was at a Walgreens. A lady that just bought two cloth shopping bags paid and had the cashier place them in a plastic bag. A couple weeks later at a different Walgreens, someone else did the same thing. Kind of defeats the purpose of the reusable cloth bag. I was dumbfounded.

 

[DadSmith]

The bag comments above reminded me of something I witnessed. I thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

A few years ago I was at a Walgreens. A lady that just bought two cloth shopping bags paid and had the cashier place them in a plastic bag. A couple weeks later at a different Walgreens, someone else did the same thing. Kind of defeats the purpose of the reusable cloth bag. I was dumbfounded.

Yep it's probably a memory thing, then instead of going with plastic they bought more.
Doesn't make sense, but........

 

[dekeshooter]

With INGO represented so well at NRAAM who won a new firearm? I hoped that all the drawings are legit and not just a trick to get my contact information.

I didn’t win a gun but I was drawn for buy one/get one pheasant hunt in SD. I talked to the lodge yesterday and my nephew and I are going in the fall of 2024. 3 days/4 nights includes lodging, meals and beverages. Going to cost us about $1500 each.

 

[cg21]

I didn’t win a gun but I was drawn for buy one/get one pheasant hunt in SD. I talked to the lodge yesterday and my nephew and I are going in the fall of 2024. 3 days/4 nights includes lodging, meals and beverages. Going to cost us about $1500 each.

Wow that is awesome

 

[lrdudley]

I brought a backpack with me, so I had no desire for a SAR, or any other bag...

I brought a backpack also. Put two SAR bags in it on our way in on Friday morning.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

The bag comments above reminded me of something I witnessed. I thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

A few years ago I was at a Walgreens. A lady that just bought two cloth shopping bags paid and had the cashier place them in a plastic bag. A couple weeks later at a different Walgreens, someone else did the same thing. Kind of defeats the purpose of the reusable cloth bag. I was dumbfounded.

A few days ago, in the grocery store, I saw a lady wearing a shirt with "WEAR A MASK!!!" printed on it. She was not wearing a mask herself.

 

[BE Mike]

I saw on the news that there were 80,000 people in attendance. Is this up or down from the last NRA Convention in Indy?

 

[WebSnyper]

I saw on the news that there were 80,000 people in attendance. Is this up or down from the last NRA Convention in Indy?

I wonder how they estimate that number? As far as I could tell, they weren't scanning anything or clicking any counters. Now I get they can put together estimates from hotel bookings, etc, but still a fairly WAG I'd think.

 

[wtburnette]

You had to either register or pre-register for the badges. I would think they could get a number from that.

 

[BE Mike]

Looks like the attendance figures are up from the 2014 NRA Convention in Indy, where the total was just over 75,000.

NRA convention attendees give Indianapolis high marks

More than 70,000 gun enthusiasts were expected to attend the 143rd annual National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis.

www.indystar.com

 

[WebSnyper]

You had to either register or pre-register for the badges. I would think they could get a number from that.

True, but I registered for 4 of them myself ;-) as a just in case I had someone else want to attend.

But makes sense. You had to register, so that's at least a pretty good estimate. Amazingly, I kind of forgot about that even though I attended.

 

[actaeon277]

Crowd size can be estimated by counting the amount of people in a block.
Sample size a few different blocks.
Create a number from those estimates.

How to properly estimate the size of crowds

500,000 or 20,000? Here's how to take the guesswork out of estimating crowd sizes

kidl.at

Modern crowd-size estimation techniques are typically based on the Jacobs Method, invented by Herbert Jacobs in the 1960s. Jacobs, who was a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was watching Vietnam War protesters outside his office window, and noticed they were standing on a paved pattern of repeating squares. He counted the students in a few squares, and calculated the average number of students per square, or crowd density. Then he simply multiplied the number of squares by the density to estimate the size of the crowd.

 

[KittySlayer]

Crowd size can be estimated by counting the amount of people in a block.
Sample size a few different blocks.
Create a number from those estimates.

They seem to have gotten a pretty accurate count for Hillary's inauguration.

 

[actaeon277]

Discussion about a candidates speech at the convention.

 

[KellyinAvon]

 

[Wolfhound]

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Is 77k a good attendance for that event? I have been to 4 of them and it seemed a little down from the others. Easier to get around though which was nice.

 

[OneBadV8]

Is 77k a good attendance for that event? I have been to 4 of them and it seemed a little down from the others. Easier to get around though which was nice.

I think the pre-covid one was north of 80k

All conventions took a HUGE attendance hit during covid. So it's nice to see them starting to get back to the original sizes again.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Is 77k a good attendance for that event? I have been to 4 of them and it seemed a little down from the others. Easier to get around though which was nice.

16K more than Houston in 2022. High-70s-low 80s were the norm for several years pre-COVID.

 

[actaeon277]

Wasn't the last Indy one betw 70k and 75k?