Honestly, I just don’t have time for this kind of bullshit anymore:
The NRA filed suit Monday against the NRA Foundation, alleging rogue leadership at the foundation misused about $160 million dollars.
FOX News reported that the NRA “alleged the foundation used its trademarks without authorization and diverted donations intended for NRA charitable programs.”
The lawsuit claims that the foundation is run by a group of former NRA board members who lost control of the NRA board and are now bitter. Reuters pointed out that the lawsuit describes the former board members as Wayne LaPierre “allies.”
NRA attorneys wrote, “The Foundation has been seized by a disgruntled faction of former NRA directors who lost control of the NRA’s Board following revelations of financial improprieties, mismanagement, and breaches of fiduciary duty and member trust.”
Disband the lot: the NRA, the NRA Foundation, and any of the rent-seekers on the periphery: the fund-raisers, the pimps who push “NRA-approved” life insurance policies, and whoever else I’ve missed.
Keep, but rename the youth- and training programs, because that’s all the NRA is good for.
Feel free to take me to task for all the great things the NRA is supposed to have done for gun owners over the years, because in the immortal words of someone talking about something else, taken all together it doesn’t amount to a bucket of cold spit. And that includes the NRA-ILA, which has a woeful track record in its stated purpose.
Forget about this lobbying group, and if you’re going to give money to the Cause, direct it towards the Second Amendment Foundation*, which does stuff like file successful lawsuits against the gun-grabbers — you know, things that actually work.
But the NRA? Drop them all down a nearby well, them and their fucking “Foundation”.
*full disclosure: I have nothing to do with the SAF and never have. I have over the years, had plenty to do with the NRA, and the experience has left me mostly underwhelmed and unimpressed.
I was an NRA member in the 80’s and early 90’s and put their sticker on my truck rear window because I heard that will deter theft. It never got stolen! LOL
I got no use for them.
My guns, and everything else I own, are mine and nobody else gets to say anything about it.
I’m glad LaPierre is out but the rot runs deep and has gone on too long.
Check Jeff Knox’s group the Firearms Coalition and Firearms Policy Coalition as well.
There are a lot of good pro 2A organizations out there alas the time for the NRA has passed. the only good things about them are their training material, grants to further build and improve shooting ranges and they get the attention of the general public. LaPierre turned it into a cash cow for him and his cronies.
The state level organizations fight at the local level and the Second Amendment Foundation has a great reacord of suing the states into compliance.
The firearms museum at Alexandria, VA is worth seeing. The NRA has a very impressive of fascinating firearms throughout history. I’d hate to see that collection get broken up.
I miss the days of Harlon Carter and Neal Knox.
IIRC, when the NRA was first founded it was essentially an organization for training on the proper use of firearms. Somewhere along the line it began championing and negotiating gun rights, often by giving up ground to the opposition, a losing tactic when dealing with leftists. The NRA needs to get back to its training roots and leave the political side to groups better suited to counter the agenda of leftist/communist thugs.
Indeed. One of the founding members was Union General Burnside. He and many others on the Union side found out what happens when you recruit warm bodies from the cities (because that’s where the numbers are) stuff them into uniforms, and march them up against Southern troops who grew up shooting. You wind up with so much blue uniformed hamburger.
All of which inspired the later formation of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to then be followed by the Department of Civilian Marksmanship. There was a time when you could send your surplus 1903 Springfield rifle off to a government arsenal to have a new surplus barrel installed for something like $7.50.
My having no
Interest in being associated with Wayne LaPierre is the reason I dropped my membership over 20 years ago
It sounds like his sorry ass supporters now inhabit the Foundation’s directorate
To Hell with all of them
+1 here on the training programs and the Museum is outstanding. But the NRA is pretty much a localized version of the Republican Party. If they accomplished anything it was by accident.
When America lost the presidential election in 1992, the NRA offered an installment program for life membership, and I jumped on it. (Ok, GHWB was a waste-of-skin too, but whatever.)
Not because I was impressed with the NRA; on the contrary, I knew it was a paper tiger. But the commies were afraid of it, and I wanted its numbers to be pumped up to keep Clinton and the other criminals at bay.
In spite of the NRA’s efforts, gun rights have been increasing in the U.S. We can thank other gun rights organizations for that.
30+ years of dire warnings and fundraising requests have done nothing to improve my opinion of the NRA. What I’d like to see is a Phoenix-like rebirth of what is, arguably, the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S.
NRA? NRA Foundation?
A pox on both their houses. The NRA wrote more gun control legislation (via “If we hadn’t intervened, it would have been much worse”) than Chuckie Schumer and Diane Feinstein ever dreamed of.
The only reason I’m still an NRA member is because NRA membership is a requirement at my shooting range. Their people in DC were cruising on the gravy boat for too long and too often to justify support.
Became a LIFE MEMBER sometime back in the early 90’s, shortly after getting my FFL. Still have both because it makes it easier to stay in the community – but Wayne & Co. chased me away from any active role in the NRA.