… would be the revelation that Wayne LaPierre took all those private taxpayer-subsidized jets to Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
But you can’t have everything.
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Broke, rudderless, and mired in costly litigation, the NRA is now facing a real possibility of going out of business—or being forcibly dismantled.
… LaPierre [takes] a $2.1 million salary, enormous for the head of a nonprofit—the NRA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) social welfare organization …
August 7th, 2020 at 11:14AM
I can think of nothing that would antagonize otherwise inclined-to-avoid-politics members of the trapshooting club or students at the range safety course than this lawsuit.
August 7th, 2020 at 12:04PM
Stephen: Only partly true. I suspect scads of sports shooters want nothing to do with so aggressively ideological – not to mention corrupt – an organization. And after all there’s nothing particularly scandalous about a big lawsuit – when it had money, the NRA filed big-ass lawsuits all the time. That’s one of the ways it bankrupted itself.
I’ve been to NRA-affiliated gun shows. I can think of few students/ordinary sport shooters who would identify with the hollow-eyed hicks, and bands of black-clothed proto-fascists I encountered. If the NRA itself were inclined, in your words, to avoid politics – or at least not to be entirely political – maybe it wouldn’t have alienated so many gun owners.