National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre isn’t someone who seeks out mainstream media attention. Unless it’s following an incident like a mass shooting or pending gun control legislation in Congress that requires a response from the NRA, he’s not one to gab idly with journalists just to get his name and … Read more
By Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press Joe Olson was once such a passionate supporter of the National Rifle Association that he pledged to bequeath several million dollars from his estate to the gun organization upon his death. But the steady drip of investigations and misspending allegations and a shakeup at the top ranks of the … Read more
By Ron Carter I just arrived home after concluding my first time attending an NRA board meeting. I home flew from Dulles to Denver and drove another two hours and am still overloaded with what happened, what didn’t happen, who attended and who was absent. First, I arrived at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport on … Read more
Earlier today we reported that National Rifle Association board member Richard Childress, a former NRA first vice president, had resigned. Now CNN is reporting the departure of two more board members. Country music singer and NRA board member Craig Morgan has resigned, sources with knowledge of the matter tell CNN, and NASCAR team owner Richard … Read more
Steve Hilton is a Fox News talking head and hosts a show called The Next Revolution. He devoted his most recent Swamp Watch segment to Wayne LaPierre and the swirling controversies surrounding the NRA EVP and CEO, concluding with this . . . “For years Wayne has taken NRA members’ money to live the life … Read more
Scandal has plagued the National Rifle Association for months now. Plenty of folks, myself included, think the NRA’s EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre owns much of the mess. Others believe Mr. LaPierre has saved the organization from ruin, time and time again, including now. Even if LaPierre really has saved the organization in the past, … Read more
From the NRA’s statement: [T]here’s nothing about an insane criminal committing a horrible act that should lead to the government taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. That will only make us less safe. Yet, that’s exactly what we’re seeing right now. A highly-orchestrated effort to disarm American citizens unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this … Read more
David Dell’Aquila, the dissident NRA donor who has now filed a class action lawsuit against Wayne LaPierre, the NRA and the NRA Foundation, has sent letters to the members of the NRA’s board of directors, New York attorney general Lucinda James and District of Columbia attorney general Karl Racine. In the letter to board members … Read more
On July 22, four National Rifle Association board members wrote a letter to NRA secretary John Frazier asking that the NRA conduct an independent investigation of various allegations of impropriety and financial misconduct. They also asked for an independent review of the tens of millions of dollars in legal fees being paid to outside counsel … Read more
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