Posted on 06/29/2020 9:17:37 PM PDT by upchuck
After spending over $30m to help elect Donald Trump in 2016, the National Rifle Association faces a deepening financial crisis with over 200 staff layoffs and furloughs in 2020, according to three NRA sources, gun analysts and documents.
The situation is likely to hinder efforts by the gun rights group to help Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election.
The 200-plus layoffs and furloughs, which have not previously been reported and were mainly at NRA headquarters in Virginia, were spurred by declines in revenues and fundraising, heavy legal spending, political infighting, and charges of insider self-dealing under scrutiny by attorneys general in New York and Washington DC, the sources say.
“The widespread Covid layoffs and furloughs have further harmed both the NRA’s legal capacity and political influence beyond what was already a troubling deterioration,” said one NRA official who requested anonymity to discuss internal matters. The official added the outlook this year for NRA political spending was “deeply concerning.”
NRA staff learned about the furloughs, plus 20% staff pay cuts, four-day work weeks and other belt tightening, in an April email from Wayne LaPierre, the longtime top executive of the NRA, which claims it has 5 million members.
LaPierre’s email to the “NRA family” said “we have lost significant revenue” and linked the austerity moves to the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders. The email said the NRA hoped to bring back those furloughed when its finances improved.
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Not good.
Seems like the latest mob rule violence taking place would only add to NRAs coffers.
Indicating they probably had 200 too many employees.
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well those big-ass executive salaries and perks probably should be re-examined, if the most important thing is the group and fulfilling its tenets
they could make a fortune since the BLM currently bought up all the ammo and the shelves are empty
they could make a fortune since the BLM currently bought up all the ammo and the shelves are empty
Meanwhile, more than 300 million guns are in the hands of Americans! Nice try communist news network!
They’ve really helped us out here in California fight the big struggle./s
They sent me some renewal offers with some good gifts. I was surprised because I already renewed for a couple of years just a couple of months ago. They are a very important group. Part of the problem is that many people don’t see the political realities of what the NRA is dealing with and withhold their money because they do not think that they go far enough.
Oliver North saw what was going on and he offered to work there for free in order to fix things. So they kicked him out completely. The NRA provided a nice living for the fat cats who run it.
Uphill battle, with all of the imported peeps.
:-(
The most important thing for Wayne LaPierre is making sure his new suit pipeline keeps operating. Not hard to find the lists of waste of donor money published over past year. Millions of former loyal members have said never again...
Bought?
Stole!
That would be if the economy were functioning properly. Nobody among the tens of millions looking for work is donating to the NRA.
Inventing higher levels of lifetime subscription and multiple prize sweepstakes that imply that a donation is required (when very fine print says otherwise) I think really turns many members off from donating. We don’t need snake oil sales pitches, just constant legal challenges to anti-firearm legislation. This is why I donate to the IRA-ILA and refuse to upgrade to whatever “Eagle Patriot Gold Lifetime Senior Member give us a bunch of money or they’ll take yer guns!” membership plan they invented this month.
Get rid of LaPierre and their troubles will be over.
Amen!
Fire LaPierre and the donations will return. Problem solved.
Maybe, now hear me out here, maybe if they got rid of Wayne, trimmed those executive perks and salaries, actually FOUGHT infringements instead of trying to sugar coat them, actually did something tangible in certain recent events instead of a blanket “we’re looking into it” statement, then maybe there would be donations.
Bumpstock ban, a-ok.
Ny safe act, “yawn”
Northam, “we’re looking into it” a.k.a. focus grouping metrics and sticking head in the sand. Again.
It’s almost as if nra stands for “negotiating rights away” these days, and idiots go “you haaaaave to unnnerstaaaaand”.
No, if rights are negotiable then they aren’t rights at all.
Things would turn around for the NRA in a New York minute if they would just fire Wayne LaPierre.
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