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An email obtained by The Trace criticizes a lack of transparency around ongoing staff reductions, which have hit the group’s fundraising staff especially hard. “Why have we not been advised regarding termination of employees?” it reads.
Bang for the Buck
Calling the gun group “a personal piggy bank” for executives, Letitia James laid out a pattern of financial mismanagement, many details of which were first reported by The Trace.
For more than two decades, the National Rifle Association has used member money to fund a covert campaign to keep Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his loyalists in power. That’s the story told in a recently released episode…
The gun group rails against state power, but almost always rallies behind the cops — who are also reliable donors.
William A. Brewer III certainly has the look of a power attorney. And he enjoys name recognition in the legal world. But does he have the clout to rein in the Attorney General of New York? National Rifle Association…
Ackerman McQueen, the National Rifle Association’s former marketing and public relations agency, is asking a federal judge to bar William A. Brewer III and his law firm from representing the gun group in a lawsuit between the two parties, who…
Coronavirus & Guns
The pandemic has prompted the gun group to slash staff salaries and cancel its annual conference. Meanwhile, it’s inked a partnership with BlazeTV, which airs broadcasters who’ve claimed the virus posed little risk to Americans.
A list of board members, executives, and other high-ranking staffers who have departed the gun group as Wayne LaPierre consolidated power.
The gun group had tried to stop Ackerman McQueen from handing over documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The controversial Carry Guard self-defense insurance is one of several products that state regulators say were marketed in a misleading manner. The gun group could be fined up to $42 million.
In court filings, a production company alleges that the NRA leader suppressed footage showing him and his wife hunting elephants in Botswana.
Gun Rights
Gun-toting protesters swarmed the scene in Richmond. But despite fears, the day was peaceful.
As the Virginia General Assembly, newly under Democratic control, begins to consider an array of firearms-related bills — more than 100 have been introduced, so far — one measure has drawn criticism from both sides of the gun debate. Under…
National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre rarely gives interviews. So it was a surprise to many when, earlier this week, The New York Times Magazine published a feature story detailing LaPierre’s take on the turmoil that has…
Gun Policy
House and Senate appropriators struck an agreement that will inject $25 million into studying a problem long obscured by a dearth of government-backed research.
In a filing, Ackerman McQueen had suggested that testimony by the NRA leader contradicted the gun group’s legal claims.
