{"id":1135,"date":"2015-12-30T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/12\/30\/nra-foundation-helps-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:12","slug":"nra-foundation-helps-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"NRA Foundation Helps North Carolina Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7897,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nrafoundation.org\\\/donate&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250920132016\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nrafoundation.org\\\/donate&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/home.nra.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 14:46:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 14:46:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nCatching 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>NRA Foundation Funds Montgomery Community College Scholarships<\/p>\n<p>TROY, N.C. \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their time in MCC\u2019s 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\u2019s 5,400 square feet of shop workspace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friends of NRA and the NRA Foundation are both great proponents of Montgomery Community College\u2019s gunsmithing program,&#8221; said Mark Dye, gunsmithing program director at Montgomery Community College. &#8220;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\u2019s unwavering commitment to our focus on this great American tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a tax deduction for 2015, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrafoundation.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donation to the NRA Foundation<\/a> is tax deductible. You have until midnight tomorrow to make one if you use a credit card.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on emails that arrived while I was out of town, I came across this one from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2020,2021,118],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gunsmithing","tag-montgomery-community-college","tag-nra-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10563,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}