WTF Is Happening at the NRA, Explained

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Chaos broke out at the NRA’s annual convention in Indianapolis last week. The gun group’s figurehead president, Oliver North, backed by its longtime PR firm Ackerman McQueen, allegedly tried to oust the NRA’s powerful CEO, Wayne LaPierre. But LaPierre hit back — forcing North to step down, while winning unanimous reelection by the NRA board.

As this Game of Thrones-worthy infighting played out, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she has opened an investigation into the NRA’s financial practices — amid public accusations that NRA executives and contractors have been feathering their nests with donor dollars — raising the possibility that the association’s non-profit status could be revoked.

Things have gotten so bad that even “chaos president” Donald Trump tweeted at the gun lobby to “get its act together quickly, stop the internal fighting, & get back to GREATNESS – FAST!”

Below, we tease out this hot mess at the NRA:

THE COMBATANTS

The NRA

The gun lobby spent $30 million in the 2016 election to boost Trump — more than twice what it spent on Mitt Romney in 2012. The go-for-broke investment paid off in a president who praises gun rights at every turn and appointed two arch-conservative justices to the Supreme Court.

But these victories have come at a deep cost for the NRA. It has lost the boogeyman of a Democratic president,and the cashflow that’s boosted by convincing gun owners that their rights are under siege. The NRA remains under Senate scrutiny for its associations with Russia in the runup to 2016. And the gun group is finally paying a price for evangelizing assault weapons, as the moral authority of the Parkland teens, and a nation repulsed by active-shooter drills at their kids’ schools, has elevated the anti-gun-violence movement into a political counterweight.

The NRA has been hemorrhaging money — losing more than $45 million in 2016 and another $17 million in 2017 — leading the organization to cut back on everything from office coffee to electioneering: The NRA was outspent by gun-control groups in the 2018 midterm elections.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/wtf-nra-scandals-explainer-830567/

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with gusto!

And a snicker and a

[stillcool]

2. I wonder where the losing money..

is finding a new home?

[louis-t]

4. Well, we do know that Brother Wayne loves

$4,000 suits.

[blugbox]

3. May the organization rot...

...and may they Never Return Again.

[MicaelS]

5. The NRA needs to be split in two.

The real NRA would revert to it's original job of teaching gun safety, marksmanship and similar matters.

The NRA-ILA would keep the hardcore gun rights types and call themselves something else. That would the ILA a stand alone political lobbying group.

[empedocles]

6. What a shit pile. Didn't see any mention of putin money either.

[ROB-ROX]

7. SHILL GROUP FOR CRIMINALS

This TURD group should be investigated to find out where the money came from which they had donated? The NRA people are all morally and spiritually BANKRUPT like the GOP. I will not miss this SHITTY organization when it is shit canned........

[bluestarone]

8. I hope the courts eat them up!