MidwayUSA is one of the largest online retailers of firearms gubbins. And not only does their customer service rock, but they put out a ton of great videos on various gunsmithing and shooting related topics to help their customers. Well, to get them to buy more products, but it’s more than Cheaper Than Dirt does. Anyway, this week they passed their 1 millionth customer in the last year. And, to celebrate, they dropped a $1 million check in the mail to the NRA. Make the jump for the presser . . .
One million is an attention-getting number, no matter what the circumstances. At MidwayUSA, Brenda and I – along with the MidwayUSA Employees – have celebrated a good many ‘one million’ milestones during the last 35+ years.
In 1983, our seventh year in business, we reached the milestone of one million dollars in business during a single calendar year. 2008 was the first year we filled one million orders for our Customers. In 2012 your NRA “Round-Up” contributions, through MidwayUSA, exceeded one million dollars during that single year. Please note that NRA “Round-Up” contributions come from you, our Customers, and each week since 1992 we have sent your contributions directly to the NRA/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2nd Amendment. Our Customers should get all the credit for that, we just collect and remit your money. Now, in March of 2013 came another milestone to celebrate – one million active Customers – Customers who have ordered from MidwayUSA during the last twelve months. For a country kid from Missouri, that’s an amazing milestone.
I believe our vision to be the best-run, most-respected business in America, for the benefit of our Customers, our family values and our relentless pursuit of Customer Satisfaction are what brought us to this milestone of one million active Customers. Brenda and I, along with all the Employees at MidwayUSA, thank you very much for your support.
As you might imagine, we gave quite a bit of thought as to how we could celebrate. Should we choose our one millionth active Customer and give he or she a special gift? Well, we could have done that, but all of our Customers are equally important, not just the one who put us over the top. Then someone came up with the idea that we should donate $1 to the NRA for each of our active Customers. Well, let’s see, what is $1 times one million?
And so it was! On Monday morning about 10am, when we went over one million active Customers, MidwayUSA authorized our bank to send a wire transfer of one million dollars to the NRA/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2nd Amendment; because we can and because we should.
Lawyers are the scum of the earth.
Sorry…. I know some lawyers are on our side too.
Thank You Midway.
So, I’ve got about 2000 rounds of 7.62×39 and probably a couple hundred 5.56 just sitting in a box. I have zero intention of using them in the next year, should I jsut sellt his stuff at a profit now and buy new when the time comes, or will it never really go down in price?
Thank you, Midway.
I want to be able to mount the rifle on the pistol’s accessory rail.
Good going Midway, Randy
Mr. Farago: Give credit where credit is due, Rush Limbaugh said something very similar back on January 17th on his program. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/17/amnesty_for_illegal_gun_owners
This woman should be tarred and feathered.
The only jobs that the gungrabbers care about is their own. Let’s put the bastards on unemployment at the earliest possibility.
Couldnt they have donated some of that to the SAF? In the end they are the ones who are going to be doing most of the work to overturn all the incoming legislation I feel.
Still though, hell yeah!!
Larry just seems like an all around nice guy. I use midway from time to time and hope for continued success for him!
There is just no reaching some folks.
Ted Harvey: “What we are trying to do here tonight is not to protect ourselves from violent crime. What we are trying to do here tonight is prevent students and teachers from feeling uncomfortable by you carrying a gun to protect yourself.”
Ted Harvey’s brain a moment later: “Wait … no … that sounds bad. Um … keep talking … try to make sense. Wait, no … “
In response to Sen. Ted Harvey’s remark, he was in favor of a person to carry to defend themselves. If you listen to his remarks more closely, his tongue in cheek remarks was more towards the assemble than to Amanda and he apologize to her that this feel good measure has nothing to do w/ her constitutional right to carry and defend herself. Like he stated in his remark, it was a feel good measure not for her but for the people who don’t feel comfortable with her carrying a firearm. I believe Sen. Ted Harvey did a great job of poking fun of the people who support the new bill without actually calling them out. Subtle. Effective.
Hudak on the other hand…wow. All women in the state of CO should petition her out of office. To tell a young woman that statistics is against you and to down play rape like that is an injustice to all the women in this great nation. Call boxes, whistles, so call “safe zones” in colleges, means nothing. You’ll be dead and raped or raped and dead. Seems to me CO wants more victims.
http://www.midwayusa.com is my starting page in a browser!
Where are the war on women comments from the media? The silence is deafening. CO has gone full bore against women protecting themselves and it’s disgusting.
I buy from them whenever I can. They are a great company. Thanks Midway!
“It was later found out that Mr. Potterfield was referring to his CEO, Nick Richards Attenbourough. A egregious PR boondoggle.”
Just kidding!!
I had a bad experience with Midway but it was through no fault of their own. I got pissy about it but this is just another reason I gotta give them credit. They certainly have my business back. Very cool….
Speaking of past and future contributors, Where is Jack hiding?
I love MidwayUSA, I’ve always had great experiences with them in the past, and will continue shopping there in the future.
“Hunting rifle” ….and Hickok appeared.
The Avalanche suck and so does the rest of Colorado.
I’ll be there freezing MAO.
They dont care if its a AR-15 or Remington 870 Shotgun there all assault weapons to fascist Nazi’s Progressive Democrats are.
This senator’s response is troubling on another level. Many people — including myself — have been thinking or saying that we need more emotion on the gun rights side. If Ms. Collins’ testimony was not able to sway a female senator, nothing will.
Strange how in this time of every gunshot in the nation being reported on national news that this woman’s remarks are not shown.
The worst handgun I ever shot was a Glock .40 full-size. Sold it off two years later and will never buy another Glock.
So dissent has gone from “the highest form of patriotism” to “criminal conspiracy” in a decade.
“I am an officer, you are and agent, he is a spy.”
“I am a member of a religion, you are part of a sect, he belongs to a cult.”
“I am a patriot, you are a malcontent, he is a dissident.”
Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Aside from that RINO POS Peter King from NY, there isn’t a single anti-2A proposal from any Republican. And there isn’t a single pro-2A proposal from any Democrat. What are the odds of that?
Drawn. I bet the prank would have stopped quickly.