Wayne LaPierre Tells His Side of Story in This Month’s NRA Publications

My copy of America’s First Freedom arrived yesterday. And who did I see on the front cover? None other than Wayne LaPierre right next to the headline, “The Future of the NRA.” In the story, he gives his side of the scandals that have plagued the National Rifle Association for most of 2019. The NRA … Read more

NRA Warns Trump on Background Check Support

The NRA’s embattled Executive Director Wayne LaPierre warned President Trump that promoting additional gun control would not go over well among his supporters. LaPierre, breaking from the NRA’s past tendency to maintain a low profile following news-making spree killings, reportedly made the comments in a phone call with President Trump Tuesday. From The Greenwich Time: … Read more

NRA Documents Reveal Brewer Law Firm Spending, LaPierre Expense Details

The growing turmoil within the NRA is no secret. It bubbled up into the mainstream media and began to boil over at the annual membership meeting in Indianapolis (though a lid was quickly put on that pot to keep the matter among board members and officers). If you need to catch up, read this, this and … Read more

NRA on the UN’s Small Arms Trade Treaty

United Nations Death Star - I sense a disturbance in the force...

Members of the TTAG Armed Intelligentsia know we’ve been on this UN Thang for a long time. Long enough to get completely bored with the subject. Which is when bureaucrats are at their most dangerous, by the way – when they’ve lulled you into a stupor. Not sure if that’s the case here, but Wayne LaPierre sure seems to think so. And so the Exec. VP of the National Rifle Association made the trek to NYC and the less-than-hallowed halls of the U.N. to testify(?) in front of a committee regarding the U.N. Small Arms Trade Treaty. As a public service to our readers, we’re reprinting the text of Big Wayne’s address below . . .

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