I'm a Fudd.
I support the 2nd as it is written which means military rifles are protected.
We all know the NRA proper is in shambles. Is it still worth donating to the NRA-ILA? I want to do my part to ensure the latest gun grabbing craziness does not go unchecked. If not them, who else has boots on the ground on the Hill?
I disagree completely.If you support maintaining 2A freedom, keep contributing to the NRA arm of your choice. But let them know your feelings about Wayne and the bloated board.
As the OP said, the NRA is the 500 lb. gorilla of gun rights lobbying. Without that, Bloomberg Money will buy Congress in one election cycle. And we will have nothing.
NRA ILA was worth the money, until they dumped Cox.
NRA PVF was useful, supporting pro-2A pols.
During the 2016 elections I dumped plenty of green into the NRA. No more from me until Wayne takes a walk. I don't care whether he was/is any good at his job, he's tainted himself and the organisation. Time to do the right thing.
NRA is all about greed and self dealing for a comfortable Board enjoying the gifts of the gullible gun owners being fleeced. Send Money to Jim and Tammy Baker and ask for their prayers..
If I raise $1 million dollars and expense $50,000 for my new toy loosely connected to the shoot I went to with the donor, not a single BoD in the world will say no. And I guarantee if you were on the board, you would approve the expense too. If you didn't your org would never bring in money, because fundraising is not "here is the check." Been there done that. That literally take 5 seconds. Fundraisers and lobbying is 90% hobnobbing and socializing with people who want to be made to feel like bigshots.
Look at the expense report of any rainmaker, you probably wont like it. Clothes, shoes, cars, toys, strip clubs, Club Med, whatever it is. The question is: how much money do they bring in? If they bring in a lot more than they expense, you keep them and sign the expense report.
As I said, I have about 4000 criticisms of WLP even before this... I think he should have retired well before 2016. This is not one of them.
So NRA's take got a $100,000,000 bump from Sandy Hook and subsequent events, from $246 million to $347 million and upward.
You can buy a lot of legislators for that kind of money.
Or a few suits for Wayne.
Chis Cox is no longer on the payroll; Wayne threw him under the bus.
Ackerman, for its part, says Mr. LaPierre had wanted the mansion, which it said was to be paid for by the NRA. According to Ackerman’s version of events, Mr. LaPierre had asked Ackerman to help facilitate the deal, and an Ackerman lawyer set up WBB Investments to buy the house so the LaPierre connection wouldn’t become public.
Enter the check, dated May 25, 2018, and drawn on an NRA account at Wells Fargo . It is the most-direct evidence of the flow of money in the aborted deal to have emerged.
The $70,000 house payment, ProPublica reported last week, was flagged by NRA accountants in July 2018 as violating NRA procedures and an example of “senior management override of internal controls.”
Another question: FPC and GoA are great litigators AFTER an infringement, but who will lobby Congress/states BEFORE an infringement to prevent it?
Answers??? Are we between a rock and a hard place?