Placer school district gets more NRA money than any other in U.S.
By Ryan Sabalow and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee
Several local school districts and the University of California system received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the National Rifle Association between 2010 and 2016.
The money, in the form of grants from the NRA Foundation, thrusts what were once largely non-controversial gun- and hunting-safety programs and extracurricular shooting clubs into a bitter national debate about accepting money from the polarizing firearms advocacy group.
The NRA gave about $1 million in cash and non-cash grants to school organizations and private shooting clubs in the Sacramento region between 2010 and 2016, according to a Sacramento Bee review of data obtained by the Associated Press.
