<P> Actor Chuck Norris serves as the honorary chairman for the association's voter registration campaign . Colion Noir hosts a video program on the NRA's online video channel . </P> <P> The NRA is governed by a board of 76 elected directors, 75 of whom serve three - year terms and one who is elected to serve as a cross-over director . The directors choose a president and other officers from among the membership, as well as the executive director of the NRA General Operations and the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA - ILA). In 2015, 71 members were white and 65 were male . More came from Texas than any other state . Only 7% of eligible members vote . Most board nominations are vetted by an appointed nine - member Nominating Committee . One member is George Kollitides of the Freedom Group . The nomination committee has been called "kingmakers" by MSNBC and Jeff Knox says "the process is front - loaded to give incumbents and Nominating Committee candidates a significant advantage". </P> <P> According to Wayne La Pierre NRA membership exceeded 5 million as of May 2013, one - tenth of whom had joined in the prior six months . Mother Jones has questioned the membership numbers published by the NRA . They say that in 2008, for example, the organization claimed both 3 million and 4.3 million members . Journalist Osha Gray Davidson suggested in 2000 that many deceased "life members" are kept on the books in order to inflate the membership rolls . A 2017 Pew Research Center Study found that more than 14 million Americans consider themselves NRA members, above the real membership number of 5 million . This may be attributed to the fact that the NRA has millions more of Americans who support them and will tell pollsters they are members, even when they are not . In other cases, it could be that their membership has lapsed and for others, they might consider a family member's membership part of their own . </P> <P> Nine US Presidents have been NRA members . In addition to Grant, they are: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (who resigned in 1995), and Donald Trump . Three US Vice Presidents, two Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court, and several US Congressmen, as well as legislators and officials of state governments are members . </P>

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