NRA Attracting Younger Members

Say the National Rifle Association and many recall the image of Charlton Heston holding a rifle and proclaiming, nurse “From my cold dead hands.”

Today’s face of NRA members is growing considerably younger but are nevertheless just as vigilant when it comes to defending the Second Amendment.

“It’s like this: If you lose one right, then the other ones are at risk,” said Julie Marshall, 23.

Marshall is a member of the Gold Country Friends of the NRA. She joined because because she’s a gun owner and wants to help educate people about the Second Amendment’s importance.

“I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters. My mother and my grandmother loved shooting and it’s something I grew to love,” Marshall said. “I also learned to respect firearms.”-[source]