Cold Steel
Active Member
For the past several decades I've been watching the NRA and haven't been a member for years. But nothing has disturbed me more than the gross misappropriation of funds from the fight against gun control to the lining of pockets of NRA executives. In an article by Jeff Knox, son of Neal Knox, a man I greatly respected for his tireless fight against gun control, he writes:
On the day he left, they acted as though they were grieved to see him go, and you would have thought it was a funeral as they somberly offered him their heartfelt condolences. But as soon as he was out of earshot, they mocked him derisively. Loyalty was everything at the NRA, and no one would have dared show genuine compassion because it was run like a Marxist state. Once out of favor, your name was Mudd.
A few years after I left, the NRA fired its entire public affairs staff. When I heard the news, I was incensed. That day someone, I don't know who, dropped a dime and called the Washington Post, and the following day it made the front page. It quickly came to the attention of the NRA board, which, just before its annual meeting, fired the executive vice president and one or two others. But things never got better. Wayne kept amassing power and, as noted above, raided the piggy bank every chance he got.
Now the NRA is a cash cow for the executives, and even when I was there, when a VIP came for a visit, they'd give me or someone else a credit card and we'd take them to very nice restaurants with plenty of booze flowing.
We also would go out for office outings and we'd put it on the tab -- for morale, of course. The NRA also hired beautiful women and there was, in my day, widespread incidences of affairs.
I've had it with them. I'll support the Second Amendment Foundation, but I've had it with three NRA.
What do you think?
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This is outrageous. I met Neal Knox a number of times when I worked for the NRA in the late 70s. He was a gentleman and a dedicated supporter of the Constitution. Many of my colleagues treated him with respect to his face, but stabbed him relentlessly behind his back.As soon as Dad was out of the leadership, [Wayne] LaPierre’s salary started going up, basically doubling from around $200,000 in 1996, to over $400,000 in 1999, then $600,000, then $800,000 and rising. Not long after Dad’s death, when I took over The Firearms Coalition, I wrote several articles about LaPierre’s exorbitant pay, and his compensation was briefly rolled back a few thousand dollars, but then resumed its upward trend, breaking $900,000 and passing through $1 million per year.
In 2015 LaPierre received over $5 million due to a retirement fund payout that I still don’t understand. The retirement fund was frozen due to lack of funds a couple of years later, after LaPierre, Chris Cox, and Woody Phillips, the Treasurer had all received major cash-outs.
In 2017 LaPierre received $1.4 million in official compensation and that was upped to $2.2 million in 2018. They have yet to report his compensation for 2019 or 2020.
On the day he left, they acted as though they were grieved to see him go, and you would have thought it was a funeral as they somberly offered him their heartfelt condolences. But as soon as he was out of earshot, they mocked him derisively. Loyalty was everything at the NRA, and no one would have dared show genuine compassion because it was run like a Marxist state. Once out of favor, your name was Mudd.
A few years after I left, the NRA fired its entire public affairs staff. When I heard the news, I was incensed. That day someone, I don't know who, dropped a dime and called the Washington Post, and the following day it made the front page. It quickly came to the attention of the NRA board, which, just before its annual meeting, fired the executive vice president and one or two others. But things never got better. Wayne kept amassing power and, as noted above, raided the piggy bank every chance he got.
Now the NRA is a cash cow for the executives, and even when I was there, when a VIP came for a visit, they'd give me or someone else a credit card and we'd take them to very nice restaurants with plenty of booze flowing.
We also would go out for office outings and we'd put it on the tab -- for morale, of course. The NRA also hired beautiful women and there was, in my day, widespread incidences of affairs.
I've had it with them. I'll support the Second Amendment Foundation, but I've had it with three NRA.
What do you think?
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