Amanda Suffecool: An Engineer and Gun Rights Advocate is Running for an NRA Board Seat

By John Petrolino The world of everything guns has been rapidly shifting from male dominance to a symbiotic sharing between males and females alike. The accidental advocate, Amanda Suffecool, didn’t wake up one day and say to herself “How can I immerse myself in the Second Amendment and have my life revolve around it?” Like … Read more

NRA Board Member Phil Journey’s ‘Restore the NRA’ Video Drops, Says LaPierre is ‘Plundering’ the NRA

NRA Board Member Phil Journey shouldn’t expect a warm welcome from the loyal LaPierre faction that runs the National Rifle Association at this month’s NRA Convention in Houston. Certainly not after he dropped a video urging NRA members to reform the nation’s oldest civil rights organization from within as part of a “Restore the NRA” … Read more

Save the Second’s NRA Board Term Limit Push is On – Deadline December 2

As the National Rifle Association’s recent tax filing revealed, NRA EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre got a big salary bump last year. This, during a time of unprecedented charges of cronyism, self-dealing and lavish spending on travel and wardrobe. Not to mention the drain on the association funds as a result of fighting a flurry of … Read more

NRA Infighting, Scandals Result in Split Among Association’s Donors

By Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press Joe Olson was once such a passionate supporter of the National Rifle Association that he pledged to bequeath several million dollars from his estate to the gun organization upon his death. But the steady drip of investigations and misspending allegations and a shakeup at the top ranks of the … Read more

The Just-Concluded NRA Board of Directors Meeting in a Nutshell

By Ron Carter I just arrived home after concluding my first time attending an NRA board meeting. I home flew from Dulles to Denver and drove another two hours and am still overloaded with what happened, what didn’t happen, who attended and who was absent. First, I arrived at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport on … Read more

1 of 5 Million: A Single Member Attends Day One of the NRA Board Meetings

By savethe2a.org Yesterday, Save The Second board member Rob Pincus attended the NRA Board Meeting…for about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, he was the only one of 5 Million NRA members who showed up to try to learn the truth about what was going on inside the NRA Board and to lobby for reform inside the troubled … Read more

Savethe2A.org Rallying NRA Members for This Weekend’s Board of Directors Meeting in Herndon, Virginia

Savethe2a.org was founded by two concerned NRA Members after the tumultuous members meeting at the NRA annual donvention this past spring. The organization is advocating for specific reforms at the NRA to help it recover from the internal crisis it is currently facing after years of dysfunction. Save The Second was successful in collecting enough … Read more

Marion Hammer Mounts a Scorched Earth Attack on NRA’s Detractors and Other Gun Rights Groups

The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com Former NRA President and current Florida lobbyist consultant Marion Hammer took to the pages of the Washington Times to torch almost everyone in the gun rights community who isn’t named Wayne LaPierre. Call us cynical, but this poison pen letter reads more as an act of desperation … Read more

David Dell’Aquila Responds to Marion Hammer’s Attacks in NRA Fund Raising Letter

If you’ve been paying attention at all, you’re aware of David Dell’Aquila’s months-long effort to force NRA EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre out of the Association’s top job. He’s gone so far as to file a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit against the NRA and NRA Foundation alleging fraud in its fundraising practices. That’s now … Read more