{"id":37567,"date":"2016-07-26T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=37567"},"modified":"2016-07-26T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:59:22","slug":"ruger-delivers-on-and-extends-the-2-million-gun-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/ruger-delivers-on-and-extends-the-2-million-gun-challenge\/37567\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruger Delivers On and Extends the &#8220;2 Million Gun Challenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2point5milliongunchallenge.jpg\" alt=\"2point5milliongunchallenge\" width=\"478\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2point5milliongunchallenge.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2point5milliongunchallenge-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>Sturm, Ruger &amp; Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) is excited to announce the extension of the 2 Million Gun Challenge to Benefit the NRA &#8211; which is now the 2.5 Million Gun Challenge!<br \/>\nBetween the 2015 and 2016 NRA Annual Meetings, Ruger met the challenge goal of selling two million new firearms, for a total donation of $4,000,000 to the NRA-ILA. Ruger CEO Mike Fifer and President\/COO Chris Killoy presented Chris Cox, NRA-ILA&#8217;s Executive Director, with a check for $4,000,000 at the 2016 NRA Annual Meetings in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruger&#8217;s continued commitment to supporting the NRA-ILA is outstanding,&#8221; said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox. &#8220;The funds raised from this program will help us in both our fight to protect America&#8217;s Second Amendment and our effort to educate voters and get them to the polls this crucial election year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the challenge period, one of the largest independent distributors of Ruger\u00ae firearms, Davidson&#8217;s \/ Gallery of Guns, also pledged to donate $1 for each new Ruger firearm they sold. Their effort added more than $350,000 to the NRA-ILA cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that everyone in our industry should stand united and fight to protect our Second Amendment rights,&#8221; said Davidson&#8217;s CEO and President Bryan Tucker. Mr. Tucker echoed the message of Chris Cox, noting that &#8220;Our participation in the Two Million Gun Challenge is one of the ways that we continue to support the NRA-ILA and show our leadership in defense of the American Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Ruger and Davidson&#8217;s \/ Gallery of Guns have pledged to extend the challenge period through the end of October, to ensure continued support up until the election. Ruger&#8217;s goal is to sell another 500,000 new firearms &#8211; totaling $5,000,000 in donations to the NRA ILA for the 2015-2016 period.<\/p>\n<p>Ruger CEO Mike Fifer commented, &#8220;With the support of our loyal consumers, we are not only able to make history again, but we also are showing our support of the NRA-ILA during this critical election year. I want to sincerely thank Bryan Tucker and the Davidson&#8217;s organization for joining us in this challenge. I hope others follow in their footsteps to create a level of support for our Second Amendment Rights and the NRA-ILA that is contagious,&#8221; Fifer concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 Million Gun Challenge to Benefit the NRA is now the 2.5 Million Gun Challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":37568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-37567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-ruger-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}