After the most recent school shooting left 21 dead in Uvalde, Texas, the chief executive of the NRA touted its school security program. In reality School Shield has not awarded any grants since before the pandemic.
the chief executive of the National Rifle Association plugged a program that the group says helps to pay for school security. But the NRA's School Shield actually has been dormant since before the coronavirus pandemic and has received only a fraction of the NRA's funds.in Houston on May 27, said the NRA had launched School Shield"to help promote and fund the necessary security that every school child needs and deserves.
But the total amount of NRA funds given to schools to improve security since the program began in 2014 is less than $2 million, or 0.08% of the $2.2 billion in revenue the NRA and its associated foundation have raised in the same timeframe, from 2014 to 2019. That is according to an NBC News review of charitable tax filings and information from the Second Amendment organization.
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