Ex-NRA insider speaks out: Gun owners should be 'horrified' by what I saw

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A former high-ranking official within the National Rifle Association is breaking ranks with the powerful gun lobby, publishing a book that accuses its leaders of decades worth of mismanagement and fraud that he says has left the organization in a state of financial and moral disarray.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas, Joshua Powell, who formerly served as chief of staff to longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, said the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to dissolve the NRA for an array of "illegal conduct" merely scratches the surface of a much deeper culture of corruption.

"I think the NRA faces a massive threat," Powell said. "I think that the attorney general is really at the tip of the iceberg in understanding what's gone on at the [NRA] for 30 years."

Powell, one of four top NRA executives named in the lawsuit, is now seeking to distance himself from the organization he once helped lead. He not only decried the alleged mismanagement of millions of dollars in charitable donations for the personal use of the organization's top executives but also denounced the organization's posture on the issue of gun violence, particularly in the wake of school shootings, as self-serving and dangerous.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/ex-nra-insider-speaks-gun-163000994.html

[SheltieLover]

1. I remember when the NRA was a good org

Focused on gun safety & gun owner education. Before russian ties & gop.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. If only more people on the right would come to see the corruption,

in more ways than one, of the groups they're part of. I wonder what makes it possible for some to break away, while others become more entrenched in the cult, even as more damning evidence comes to light.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Thanks for speaking out-after 30 years.