Here is the response to my email to the NRA.
Thank you for contacting NRA-ILA. Please read the following statement issued by NRA-ILA on June 25th. http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5936
In addition, please view responses from two of our board members.
There are a myriad of rumors regarding the NRA cluttering the internet, but one in particular is causing me personal anguish. That rumor reports that the NRA staff has issued a gag order to the NRA Board of Directors regarding comments on the nomination of Elena Kagen to the Supreme Court. Let me explain something about the structure of the NRA; authority to do anything within the NRA comes from you the members of the NRA. That authority is delegated to your elected Board of Directors, who in turn elects officers and formulate policy, that is then issued to the Executive Vice President/CEO, who then turns that policy into action through the professional staff. Gag orders for the Board of Directors do not exist.
Friends; those of you close to me should know by now that telling me I can’t speak up on an issue of vital importance to the 2nd Amendment is going to get you into a war. I spoke vociferously regarding the nomination of Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; in fact I joined a number of national 2nd Amendment leaders protesting the appointment and urging through a nationally published letter she not be confirmed. I did that because of her ties to New York State and the position she took, making anti-2nd Amendment decisions.
We fervently hope the Republican Senators will block this nomination.
The 2nd Amendment protects all the rest. Why would the NRA, the protector of the 2nd Amendment, attempt to limit the 1st Amendment rights of its’ own Board of Directors? It does not, but if you think the Board members you voted for could be gagged then you voted for the wrong guys.
Tom King
NRA Board of Directors
President
NYS Rifle & Pistol Association
“None of us have been given instructions to not testify. There is a standing policy decided a long time ago by the Legislative Policy Committee and approved by the entire Board of Directors that matters such as this will be handled by the ILA division of NRA, but I don’t view that as a “Gag Order”. Having ILA handle matters this important just lends itself to good operations.”
NRA Board Member
John Burtt
the anti NRA but Pro 2nd crowd is strong here at FR.
there job here it seems to lie, as often as possible and denigrate any pro NRA members by calling them Koolaid drinkers....
instead of working togehter , their job seems to be to destroy other pro 2nd organizations that are not the ones they belong to.
despicable.
the NRA is the first and still the best.
lies are for cowards.