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NRA troubles: A hunter targets the world’s most powerful gun lobby
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | October 11, 2019 | Simon Montlake, Staff writer

Posted on 10/11/2019 12:49:30 PM PDT by Jagermonster

--Why We Wrote This--

What drives a passion for guns? For one man, it started in childhood and continues with loyalty to a cause – if not to the giant organization he’s fighting to clean up.

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A retired millionaire, Mr. Dell’aquila could afford to hire enough workers and equipment to turn his 862-acre ranch into a hunting and fishing redoubt. But that’s not work, and work – sweaty, hazardous, dusty outdoor work – is what makes him tick when he’s out here. “This is where I come up with my best ideas,” he says.

Lately those ideas have been targeted at the National Rifle Association, of which Mr. Dell’aquila is a lifetime member and, until recently, a financial supporter. Today he regrets his past generosity to a group whose stated mission – to defend the right to bear arms – is one he avows as his own. Mr. Dell’aquila wants to see the NRA’s scandal-plagued management gone and is putting his broad shoulder to the wheel, using financial and legal pressure to force reform.

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The real threat to the NRA – for decades, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States – may be from a handful of members who want to blow up the organization from the inside.

In this case, however, they aren’t trying to make the lobbying group impotent. They want to make it stronger – and gun rights even more inviolate. Mr. Dell’aquila is one of the most resolute members of this growing internal revolt by gun lovers against the leaders of a nonprofit that is a synecdoche for U.S. civilian ...

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Any thoughts from the freeperverse as to whether this guy has the right notion about the NRA or not?
1 posted on 10/11/2019 12:49:30 PM PDT by Jagermonster
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To: Jagermonster

Since when is the NRA ‘scandal plagued’?


2 posted on 10/11/2019 1:00:09 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Jagermonster

“the world’s most powerful gun lobby”

*Sigh* Do people realize that if the NRA was gone tomorrow we would STILL have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?? We do not have that right because the “NRA lobbys”.


3 posted on 10/11/2019 1:02:59 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Mr. K

“ Since when is the NRA ‘scandal plagued’?”

Since Wayne LaPierre got caught buying $2,000 suits, among other things.

L


4 posted on 10/11/2019 1:05:05 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Jagermonster

NRA needs a thorough audit by an outside accounting firm. Now! We need this mess corrected prior to campaign season. Up coming election far to important to have this garbage going on. Get it settled!


5 posted on 10/11/2019 1:07:47 PM PDT by donozark (We Build the Wall Inc. (Check it out))
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To: Mr. K

It’s scandal plagued when being written about by liberals. Otherwise not so much.


6 posted on 10/11/2019 1:10:08 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Jagermonster

i am a LIFE member of the NRA not a lifetime member...

the second amendment is because of God, not the NRA...

one does not lobby for a constitutional right... one tries to protect it.


7 posted on 10/11/2019 1:10:36 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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Since when is the NRA ‘scandal plagued’?

Since it was revealed that Wayne La Pierre spent millions on himself and his wife, paid their public relations firm Ackerman McQueen around $40 million per year, and forced the outster of NRA President Oliver North and NRA-ILA Director Chris Cox.

In short, Wayne La Pierre has done what liberal anti gun activists have failed to do: Ruin the NRA from the inside.

8 posted on 10/11/2019 1:10:58 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Jagermonster

I’m guessing he’s GTG. He wants to get rid of La Pierre, which is priority no. 1 for me, And he seems to have the backing of some serious pro gunners like Randy Luth and Rob Pincus.


9 posted on 10/11/2019 1:12:56 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: Lurker

The scandal would be if Mr. LaPierre were wearing $1,800.00 suits.


10 posted on 10/11/2019 1:12:59 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: Mr. K

Since earlier this year when the story broke about Mr. LaPierre’s... interesting... level of financial discipline.


11 posted on 10/11/2019 1:20:34 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Jagermonster

I have decided not to renew my membership until Wayne LaPierre is gone.


12 posted on 10/11/2019 1:23:11 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: Jagermonster

I have decided not to renew my membership until Wayne LaPierre is gone.


13 posted on 10/11/2019 1:23:21 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: Jagermonster

What’s hunting got to do with the 2nd amendment?


14 posted on 10/11/2019 1:31:13 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: Mr. K

Since when is the NRA ‘scandal plagued’?


I’m not a reader of the Christian Science Monitor. Does it refer to the Clinton Foundation as ‘scandal plagued’?


15 posted on 10/11/2019 1:40:43 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Mr. K

Wayne’s $uits apparently. And Nugent turning his amp to 11?


16 posted on 10/11/2019 1:43:47 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Jagermonster; All

This guy was interviewed on the WeLikeShooting podcast on September 5th. Here’s a link to that show:
(It’s in MP3)

https://welikeshooting.com/show/315/


17 posted on 10/11/2019 1:46:58 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Saltmeat

Same here. I’m just going to let my membership lapse.


18 posted on 10/11/2019 2:16:23 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

lol


19 posted on 10/11/2019 2:16:34 PM PDT by bruoz
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To: Hugh the Scot

The price of the suits is not an issue so much as the way LaPierre and a few cronies are milking the NRA for million dollar salaries and then getting 300K of suits and other expensive benifits billed to contractors who then bill the NRA for the expense.


20 posted on 10/11/2019 2:25:53 PM PDT by nvcdl
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