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Bang for the Buck
Bill Brewer promised to rescue the National Rifle Association from perilous legal straits, but he’s won only one of the 10 expensive suits he’s filed. Insiders say he’s inappropriately prioritizing the protection of chief executive Wayne LaPierre.
Election 2020
Spending by groups on either side of the gun issue is nearly even in federal races this year.
A consulting operation that's been tied to allegedly illegal campaign tactics by the RNC in Nevada and Montana is running the gun group's get-out-the-vote effort in at least 16 states.
Documents show that the NRA's new anti-Biden ad emerged from the same web of firms involved in potentially illegal coordination in 2016 races.
At the same time, 94 percent of Republican candidates remain in the group's good graces.
While describing extensive corruption at the gun group, Joshua Powell’s book depicts its leader as an inept manager with a self-pitying streak.
Meanwhile, the gun group's legal costs soared.
Breaking down the allegations in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit seeking to dissolve the gun group.
We’re tracking the gun group’s 2020 election expenditures in real time.
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.
National Rifle Association
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…
Once a top lender for the National Rifle Association, Wells Fargo is now highlighting its distance from the gun group. During an annual shareholder’s meeting on April 28, CEO Charles Scharf said the bank’s relationship with the NRA was…
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…
