Posted on 04/27/2019 8:30:16 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
The latest edition of The American Rifleman, a NRA monthly magazine, has a huge article this month on NY Gov Cuomo’s attempt to “shudown the NRA.”
Holy crap, 72 on their board? They don’t represent the membership, they ARE the membership!
Lol. I see. I would get calls from the RNC and finally told them to take me off their call and mailing lists and I heard no more from them.
You must be a GOA member if you don’t like the NRA.
I’ll have to read it.
I get the American Rifleman. Haven’t had time yet to look at it.
I was at the Convention Yesterday couldn’t believe all the folks that were there then after POTUS speech more flooded to the Convention Center.
A relentless defender of 2nd Amendment Rights,
and
A complete shill for the firearms industry.
Exactly and the latter is their undoing and may in fact be our President's if he is too buddy buddy with them in their current swampy state. I am not a fan of this LaPierre guy.
I see everyone’s head is still in the sand about where everything is going with 2A rights.
This has been brewing for a while, it’s just gotten big enough that the willfully ignorant are being forced to pay a little attention.
Grover Norquist lost his re-election bid last year. No longer on NRA Board.
Lapierre has been a blight on the NRA for years, as has his henchwoman the Crazy Cat Lady (Marion Hammer) who has supported more gun control than gun rights in the past few years.
Have long advocated a 51 (one from every State and one at-large) Member Board. Others have as well. 72 Member Board is much too large. Some States have several Board members, others none. Not fair. And no one really knows who “their” Board Member is.
I’m a cheap bastard, too. I have a $32.00 Android TracFone from Walmart. I average paying about $25.00 every two months. It’s good enough for me.
I’m so close to giving up my landline.
This appears to be the best analysis of the situation. Long read but worth it.
https://www.thetrace.org/features/nra-financial-misconduct-ackerman-mcqueen/
analyzed 11 years’ worth of the organization’s public financial statements, starting in 2007. In seven of those years, he told me, “the NRA owed more money to others than it had at its discretion to spend.” A financial audit from 2017 revealed that it had nearly reached the limit of a $25 million line of credit. Additionally, it had been forced to liquidate more than $2 million from an investment fund, borrow almost $4 million from its officers’ life-insurance policies, and tap another $5 million from its affiliated charitable foundation.
Not a single cause nor a magic bullet to fix the situation. Easy money over, Organization raided and now time to spread the blame...…………………………………………………..
SAF (Second Amendmenr Foundation) and GOA (Gun Owners of America).
I was a member if the latter, but I got annoyed with their putting the subject of their letters on the envelope. It was generally a bunch of stuff about thwarting Obama agenda. It irritated me because I get a lot of packages containing vintage camera equipment and just about every postal worker in my area is a black Democrat and the last people I want conflict with are the ones handling my mail. I was all for thwarting the Obama’s anti-gun agenda, but keep that stuff on the inside of the envelope.
The NRA and Ackerman McQueen have become so intertwined that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Top officials and staff move freely between the two organizations; Oliver North, the former Iran-Contra operative, who now serves as the NRA’s president, is paid roughly $1 million a year through Ackerman, according to two NRA sources. But this relationship, which in many ways has built the contemporary NRA, seems also to be largely responsible for the NRA’s dire financial state. According to interviews and to documents that I obtained — federal tax forms, charity records, contracts, corporate filings, and internal communications — a small group of NRA executives, contractors, and vendors has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the nonprofit’s budget, through gratuitous payments, sweetheart deals, and opaque financial arrangements.
‘86 was, politically, before my time, but yes, they certainly did. The NRA has caved a handful of times over the course of it’s history. Thinking about it, I think the bill that I only vaguely recall, likely contained language to make protesting outside abortion clinics a federal crime, as that was probably the biggest free speech issue of the ‘90s. I don’t have the foggiest recollection of how the bill would have benefitted gun owners... it certainly wasn’t anything as significant as Heller, or the end of the AWB. I have a pretty good memory and it scares me, I can’t remember the specific bill, but I suppose cramming hundreds of different regulations into a single bill is by design... specifically so people can’t remember or pay attention to it all. As far as LaPierre goes, he hasn’t done much to impress me since that time either... but I still hope that one day I could join without any personal reservations.
If you give up your landline, I would recommend Consumer Cellular. You can match up your needs with monthly fees. I’m thinking seriously about it but there are no stores near me. I’d need someone to do the set up for me. I’m 68 and have only basic technical knowledge.
Good luck.
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