Adolphus Busch IV Resigns From NRA After Gun Control Defeat In Senate

[onehandle]

Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family brewing fortune, resigned his lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association on Thursday, writing in a letter to NRA President David Keene, "I fail to see how the NRA can disregard the overwhelming will of its members who see background checks as reasonable."

The resignation, first reported by KSDK, came a day after the Senate rejected a series of amendments to a gun control bill, including a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for gun sales. The NRA had vigorously opposed all those measures.

"The NRA I see today has undermined the values upon which it was established," wrote Busch. "Your current strategic focus clearly places priority on the needs of gun and ammunition manufacturers while disregarding the opinions of your 4 million individual members."

Reached for comment on Busch's resignation, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told The Huffington Post, "We disagree with his characterization, but we wish him all the best."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/adolphus-busch-iv-nra_n_3112750.html

[Lint Head]

1. Good!! Now dismantle this propaganda machine for the manufacturers of death.

[Voice for Peace]

15. maybe an avalanche of resignations..

from rich important people?

[geomon666]

2. Someone with an actual conscience.

And here I thought there were no more surprises left for me in this life.

[hrmjustin]

6. Just when i wrote a post about how down i was on this issue now there is a ray of light on it.

[wordpix]

60. can you believe an NRA board member has one?

my mind is boggled, too

[harun]

3. bravo

[MotherPetrie]

4. Hope this crack in the wall spreads until the wall cracks and falls

[DonCoquixote]

5. look like I may need to get a case of Bud

and I hate Bud!

Adolphus Busch, this bud's for you!

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Bud gives me a headache...

even if I have even one. Busch, another Bud product, doesn't. I will have one tonight.

[mountain grammy]

7. Good, let them be left with Ted Nugent and the cold dead hands of Charlton Heston.

[DissidentVoice]

22. I will REALLY shit bricks...

...if Ted Nugent resigns.

He used to be looked at as almost a deity here in Michigan, until he buggered off to Crawford, Texas to stick his nose up George W. Bush's arse.

Granted, the rural areas of Michigan still have loads of pickups bearing "TED NUGENT FOR PRESIDENT" bumper stickers, but in the cities...I think most see him for what he is: a has-been rock star whose last real hit album was Scream Dream, in 1979, and who only gains notoriety with his big pie hole.

That includes in Detroit. (Trivia buffs note: The "Motor City Madman" is NOT from Detroit. He is from Redford Township, a suburb of Detroit, and grew up in Chicago. I remember when his mother, Marion "Ma" Nugent, wrote an often-entertaining column for the Illinois Entertainer, a rock tabloid out of Chicago.)

[mountain grammy]

28. mmm, interesting information.. thanks.

[Bette]

39. I wish..

I wish ted nugent would fulfill his self-prophecy and either go to jail or go die. He's a danger with the way he flaps his jaw, somebody should shut him up. But I don't anyone who wants to die over this cretin...the biggest HAS-BEEN ever! He likes to hunt with bow and arrow except he's not particular about whether his target actually is a kill, or just leaves them to struggle and die a very painful, slow death. If only, the deer could spear him with it's antlers....this did happen to a guy...
And, I cheered for the deer! It won.

[Earth_First]

41. You are strange... nt

[global1]

8. Let's Hope This Starts A Trend And Other Rank And File NRA Members Start Dropping Their....

NRA Membership. This needs to be talked about in MSM - the Cable News shows.

[drm604]

9. I hope that a large proportion of those 4 million members follow his lead.

[Thinkingabout]

10. Good for him, it is time for more real people to stand up and say the same thing. Hey, NO voters,

If you are so deluded to think the NRA is going to protect you in your next election you better think again. Great are the yes voters, they heard the 90% bell and responded to their constituents.

[Skittles]

11. I wish the DUers pimping this garbage would "resign" too

to hell with ANYONE who sides with the NRA

[patrice]

14. +1 They ARE here and expect me to ask them again EVERY time I see them, until I get an answer. nt

[onehandle]

18. It's a hate group. Supporters of the NRA should be subject to our TOS. nt

[SomeGuyInEagan]

46. I am waiting for gun owners to start "Responsible Gun Owners of America" or some such thing.

And leave the NRA. The NRA is a lobbying branch for the gun manufacturers, nothing more, and really doesn't offer gun owners anything other than a black eye. Given an alternative, I could see folks jump.

The best idea I heard was on the David Feldman Podcast, where he suggested someone with money fund a public "NRA Card Buyback" campaign. And it was on the same program that Rick Overton suggested the splinter group for responsible gun owners.

From the mouths of comedians ... some rather sane ideas.

[Taverner]

12. Wow...an Adolph with a heart...

[patrice]

13. Hey Aldphus, how about the NRA protecting FAST-&-FURIOUS assault weapons markets all over the world?

[hopemountain]

16. i hope this is only the beginning

for more members to leave the nra and take their dues with them.
bravo, adolphus busch!

[WCGreen]

17. This buds for you...

[dem in texas]

19. At least one NRA member does the right thing

Let hope some of the other more respectable board members show as much character.

[WillyT]

21. K & R !!!

[DissidentVoice]

23. Who exactly "famous" is on the NRA board?

Besides Ted Nugent, of course.

[Hekate]

24. Usually institutions like that are proud of their high profile board members

A quick google search should yield the information as to who is on the Board of the NRA. Might be fun to start petitioning them individually.

[Kennah]

35. Asked and answered. There are a number of famous folks on the NRA BOD.

http://nra.org/board/

[LAGC]

36. Senator Larry E. Craig (Ret.)

Well, at least we know the NRA is open to diversity on its board!

[Kennah]

37. And, he looks real cute in that hat.

[rppper]

38. There are a lot of bad haircuts and....

Very, very old bad men and women in that group...nugent's in his 60's and he looks younger than 85% of them.....some of them didn't look healthy....

[greiner3]

44. It seems;

As the entire NRA.org site is down.

Even using the 'ping' of NRA.org, all I get are errors.

Anonymous?

[Beacool]

25. Well done.

I guess that tomorrow I'm going to have to go out and by me some beer.

[malthaussen]

26. Integrity

I like that.

-- Mal

[Sunlei]

27. Good for Adolphus Busch IV ! , I've always said the NRA are only for gun sales.

Good to see a board member noticed the same exact thing!

[bucolic_frolic]

29. He is a brave and patriotic American

America needs more like him who will stand for common sense.

Maybe he'll run for office?

[Marr]

30. Yep-- the NRA has become little more than a lobbyist for gun manufacturers.

[onehandle]

31. For terrorism.

The NRA has made it harder to track the components of the Boston Marathon bombing.

[AAO]

32. Beer Hero!

[Hugabear]

33. Supporting the NRA should be grounds for PPR here on DU

Whatever the NRA used to be, it's now a hate group that pisses all over the will of the people.

[47of74]

50. As far as I'm concerned the NRA is about the same as the Ku Klux Klan or al-Qaida.

[Historic NY]

34. Finally, cracks appear.

[Canuckistanian]

42. I'd like to see Tom Selleck resign now

That would really be the last nail in the coffin of the NRA's perceived power.

[kimbutgar]

43. Who was it that called him out?

I think it was Jon Stewart or Bill Maher that called him out to resign or come on their show to explain their being on the BOD of the NRA. No response. I used to like Magnum until I heard he was a raging right winger.

[Canuckistanian]

47. It was Lawrence O'Donnell n/t

[stlsaxman]

40. Here is link to local tv coverage... his letter to NRA is read- it's AWESOME!

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/376098/3/KSDK-Exclusive-Adolphus-Busch-IV-resigns-NRA-membership


Too bad i'm 27 years sober- i'd buy a case of Bud... I couldn't see buying drek like O'Douls!

[Maineman]

45. It is time to become a single issue voter, as much as I hate the idea.

NRA control of Congress is symbolic of a very big problem, that of corporate control of our government. Killing every reasonable strategy for reducing gun violence is despicable. It is time for we-the-people to make a stand. We must vote against every elected official who filabustered the efforts to do something appropriate about gun violence.

[Vietnameravet]

48. Thanks

Thanks so much for posting this..i have been "talking" with right wingers and the amount of sheer hate and stupidity is overwhelming..This is a nice ray of sunshine that provides many of us with a ray of hope in these very dark times.

[hope4more]

49. Puppetmasters

[Vietnameravet]

53. Sad thing is..

no one forces the USA to be a puppet..its something many just choose..and most ignore..

[lark]

51. When even right wing toadies think you're too extreme -

it's time to turn out the lights, the party's just about over. Best news in a few days. Suck on that - NRA.

[Bay Boy]

52. I smell a rat here..

...why resign after the vote?
Why not come out beforehand and make some noise if you truly believe this is the right thing to do?

[Bay Boy]

54. HuffPo has made a correction...

...it was a life membership he resigned not a board membership.

[CokeMachine]

55. Quit it

you'll ruin their narative. The correction has been there since yesterday but is has sadly been overlooked in more than one OP -- I can't come to believe it was on purpose though

Posted: 04/18/2013 7:17 pm EDT | Updated: 04/19/2013 11:19 am EDT

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated incorrectly that Adolphus Busch IV had resigned his membership on the NRA board. Busch was not a member of the board.

[geek tragedy]

58. "their narrative." To whom are you referring? nt

[CokeMachine]

59. The posters that conviently forgot to note the correction.

Look I hate the NRA as much as anyone but when incorrect information is posted on purpose I'll make note of it.

Good enough?

[geek tragedy]

63. Sorry, I do not believe you.

Given that you've never once publicly disagreed with the NRA here, nope.

[CokeMachine]

64. Sorry you don't believe me and I don't care.

Do you mean in this thread or all of my 478 posts? At this point I really don't care what you believe. A quick look at your transparency page tells me and apparently 52 others all we need to know about you. I won't play in your troll hunting game. But thanks for asking me play.

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[CokeMachine]

66. No thanks. Ain't playing your game.

Have a good weekend!

[LanternWaste]

56. An apt example of character and convictions.

An apt example of character and convictions.

[MatthewStLouis]

57. To those who want to beatify August A. Busch IV: know he may have some skeletons in his closet.

His girlfriend died under suspicious drug-related circumstances, $1.75M wrongful death settlement made to her family....

I'm glad he renounced his membership anyway.

[wordpix]

61. is he related to the BFEE? I realize his name is spelled differently but you never know

[Duval]

62. I don't believe

anything that comes out of a Bush's or Busch 's mouth. Sorry. But, thanks for posting. We can only hope.