Catching up on emails that arrived while I was out of town, I came across this one from the NRA. It discusses the substantial donations made by the NRA Foundation to Montgomery Community College to fund scholarships for gunsmithing students.
NRA Foundation Funds Montgomery Community College ScholarshipsI am especially gratified by these donations as my family connections to Montgomery County go back to before the Civil War. My father was born in Troy and I still have cousins living there.
TROY, N.C. – Nearly $100,000 in NRA Foundation grants have funded Montgomery Community College scholarships for its gunsmithing program since 1994. These merit-based scholarships help spur high academic achievement and pristine attendance records while providing students with the freedom and flexibility to undertake notably challenging projects.
Throughout their time in MCC’s gunsmithing program, students develop skills tooling and blueprinting, metal finishing, firearm diagnostics and repair, and custom firearms manufacturing. More than two-thirds of class time is spent hands-on in the college’s 5,400 square feet of shop workspace.
"Friends of NRA and the NRA Foundation are both great proponents of Montgomery Community College’s gunsmithing program," said Mark Dye, gunsmithing program director at Montgomery Community College. "In their biggest show of support yet, the NRA Foundation granted us funds to award 12 gunsmithing scholarships this year. We are truly grateful for the NRA’s unwavering commitment to our focus on this great American tradition."
Both the East and West Friends of NRA State Fund Committees in North Carolina award grants to the program each year. In 2014, nearly half of all scholarships awarded to MCC gunsmithing students came from The NRA Foundation.
If you need a tax deduction for 2015, a donation to the NRA Foundation is tax deductible. You have until midnight tomorrow to make one if you use a credit card.
This is essential long term work/investment that isn't advertised all that much but is nonetheless very important.
ReplyDeleteWith the politics being always the hot topic it's easy to forget all the various work the NRA does.
I remember reading an article that said that the NRA had become some sort of de-facto regulatory agency when it comes to firearms training/qualification, for example, as many CCW statutes mandate NRA courses when training is required by law.
This one is nice. I had been following your blog and learn something new while you are able to have it. You people can take help from the MA Gun License to know what are the do's and don't s regarding handling guns wisely and in a proper manner.
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