By NRA-ILA Last Friday, President Trump took the historic step of ordering the “un-signing” of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty during his address to the NRA-ILA’s Leadership Forum. President Trump’s action effectively withdraws the United States from the most comprehensive effort towards international gun control. Much of the intervening coverage on the ATT has focused on […]
By NRA-ILA In 2016, UK shooter and popular YouTube gun channel personality Callum Long-Collins told the BBC, “Being British and a firearms owner, it almost feels illegal to have any sort of opinion on using guns for self-defense.” The comments appear to have been proved correct. According to an April 23 article in The Times […]
By NRA-ILA It’s no secret that the Garden State is hardly Eden for Second Amendment supporters, who are subjected there to some of the strictest firearm laws in the nation. But now Democrat Gov. Philip D. Murphy is targeting New Jersey’s law-abiding gun owners and would-be gun owners with proposals to increase by several orders […]
By NRA-ILA FAIRFAX, Va.– The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauds Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb for signing into law a comprehensive gun rights bill that will make it easier for law-abiding Hoosiers to defend themselves. Gov. Holcomb signed the bill into law on the stage of the NRA-ILA’s Leadership Forum at the […]
A reporter for the New York Times has tweeted the following. Wayne LaPierre, @NRA CEO and executive vice president, unanimously re-elected in executive session at the group’s board meeting in Indianapolis. — Danny Hakim (@dannyhakim) April 29, 2019 We’re also hearing reports — not confirmed yet — that Ackerman McQueen’s services have been terminated. If […]
If you’ve been following all of the sturm und drang coming out of the NRA Annual Meetings over the weekend, you may have seen our post on the general membership meeting that was held Saturday. During the meeting, a motion was made to discuss the critical issues and allegations facing the NRA in open session […]
April 29, 2019 An open letter to the NRA MEMBERSHIP and their elected SERVANTS, the NRA Board of Directors. I hope these words don’t fall on deaf ears, as I am just another Bojo on the bus, a small fish in a big – and curently fetid pond: a mere NRA Member. I have, however, […]
This letter comes courtesy Rob Pincus’s Facebook page. April 29, 2019 An Open letter to the NRA Board of Directors. First off, I would like to congratulate all the newly elected NRA board members, I’m sure your reason for running for the NRA Board of Directors (BOD) was driven by patriotism, pride, and selfless service […]
During yesterday’s National Rifle Association membership meeting, one of the organization’s foes that Executive director Wayne LaPierre singled out for criticism was New York’s newly-elected attorney general Letitia James. Now, in the wake of allegations of overspending, conflicts of interest and a lack of internal controls, James has announced that her office has opened a […]
The annual membership meeting of the National Rifle Association was held today here in the Indiana Convention Center. It began with an introduction of all of the organization’s top officers…with one notable exception. That empty spot to the right of Wayne LaPierre (above) was where NRA President Oliver North would have been, had he not announced […]
Yesterday we broke the news that NRA board members asked for Wayne LaPierre’s resignation, and he refused. Later, we shared the letter he wrote in response, in which he effectively claimed that the NRA’s President as of a year ago, Lt. Colonel Oliver North, effectively extorted him in an attempt to force LaPierre’s resignation. Breaking […]
