The Parkland school shooting may have been a tragedy for the students who died, the ones who lived with trauma and a nation that has been gripped by fear of when the next school shooting will occur, but it has been a boon for the NRA.

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The gun rights organization saw a massive donations surge in the aftermath of the shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to CNN. The Center for Responsive Politics found that itemized contributions (that is, individual donations that equal at least $200) increased by roughly 200 percent from the two weeks prior to the shooting to the two weeks after it happened. The week immediately after the shooting saw a 500 percent increase from the week prior to it.

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“In the year since the Trump administration took office, there’s no serious discussion about gun control. This shooting may prompt some people to buy guns, it’s unlikely to create the same kind of sales spike we saw following shootings during the Obama administration,” David Studdert, a Stanford professor who has studied gun sales after mass shootings, told CNN Money.