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I worked at the Convention on Wednesday, Thursday, (store) and Friday (registration). Wednesday was spent pricing ALL the goodies you saw in the store. It was a massive undertaking, but we had lots of volunteers. People worked hard and every one had a big smile on their face. Thursday morning was spent setting up the displays and shirt racks in the store. I was one of 9 checkers when the store opened at 2pm. It turned into a zoo very quickly and people were spending LOTS of money. I had one sell of over $1200. On Friday, I worked from 12:30pm to 6pm in registration. I did not have one person complain about having to join the NRA to go in the convention. We actually had a $10 associate membership available but no one asked for it. The easiest sell was when a Grandparent brought their Grandchild in to the convention. EVERYONE that I approached about buying their Grandchild a Life Membership bought one ($550). I had one Grandparent with a 3 year old and he was so excited about providing this for the child.

I asked a store supervisor about people stealing from the store. He said that has never been a problem because "these people are not the type that steal". The vendors said the same thing. I talked to several and they said they had never had anything stolen from their displays. We (NRA and gun "nuts") are not the problem.