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Bang for the Buck
How vendors and executives are bleeding the gun group dry.
The gun group's foundation directed at least $180K to a nonprofit run by Susan LaPierre, who also asked NRA vendors to contribute.
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For the second time in two months, The National Rifle Association is taking its longtime marketing firm Ackerman McQueen to court. This time, Ackerman is firing back. Late Wednesday, NRA lawyers filed suit against Ackerman in Virginia Circuit…
Weeks after the massacre at Sandy Hook, while addressing a hunting conference in Reno, Nevada, the National Rifle Association’s leader, Wayne LaPierre, decried the hypocrisy of political “elites” who were pushing for stronger gun laws while protected by armed security…
A loss of the organization’s tax-exempt status is not the only possibility — nor even the most devastating.
Under questioning from a Democratic congressman, a top Treasury Department official testified that the kind of reported self-dealing that has transpired at the National Rifle Association would merit further inquiry into an organization’s tax-exempt status. The exchange happened during a…
The gun group has blamed its money problems on its longtime marketing firm, but a newly unearthed document shows that the financial improprieties reach further.
The request for documents from NRA head Wayne LaPierre, former president Oliver North, and PR agency Ackerman McQueen is another sign of trouble for the group.
One board member suggests otherwise, as reformers fume over a new rule they say is designed to snuff out change.
The embattled executive vice president survived a final leadership challenge as the tumultuous 2019 NRA convention drew to a close.
As New York’s attorney general announces a new investigation, the group’s board appears to rally behind Wayne LaPierre.
Attorney General Letitia James of New York has opened a formal investigation into the National Rifle Association’s nonprofit status and asked the organization and several affiliated groups to preserve financial records. According to The New York Times, James’s…
He had been locked in a power struggle with Wayne LaPierre.
An internal power struggle has spilled into the open at the NRA’s annual convention, with LaPierre accusing board President Oliver North of “extortion.”
A federal judge on Friday sentenced Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist who pleaded guilty in December to a conspiracy against the United States, to 18 months in prison. The term, which includes the nine months Butina has…