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A campaign finance watchdog and gun safety group are suing the Federal Election Commission for its failure to act on multiple complaints alleging that the National Rifle Association unlawfully coordinated with political candidates over several election cycles, as first reported…
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Following the The Trace’s investigation into the NRA’s financial impropriety, some prominent activists want the organization’s leadership ousted.
Working for the National Rifle Association was like a dream for Aaron Davis. A committed supporter of gun rights since his youth, Davis landed a job on the NRA’s fundraising team in 2005. But as he told The Trace’s Mike…
Spies discusses his investigation into financial impropriety at the National Rifle Association.
The Trace and The New Yorker’s latest collaboration reveals a web of business deals that have steered hundreds of millions of dollars to insiders.
The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making.
The National Rifle Association is facing fresh scrutiny this week after the Huffington Post reported that an “NRA official” had corresponded with the infamous Sandy Hook school shooting denier Wolfgang Halbig. The official, Mark Richardson, had emailed Halbig…
Here are the facts about all ten inquiries into the gun rights group.
In recent years, medical professionals have jumped into the debate over gun policy. In 2015, doctors’ groups issued a call to action on reducing firearm violence. Last year, hundreds more doctors joined the #ThisIsOurLane push against the National…
Lawmakers demand documents after The Trace’s reporting shows NRA’s use of shell companies to support Trump, Senate campaigns.
The role of a former NRA president and the group’s 2015 Moscow trip are under scrutiny.
Another campaign watchdog has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing the National Rifle Association of illegally coordinating its support for three GOP Senate candidates. The latest complaint, from the American Democracy Legal Fund — the legal…
But will that give the gun group cover amid the wider Trump-Russia investigation?
The same media consultant purchased ads for the NRA and for Senate candidates in the Missouri, Montana, and North Carolina races.
New York regulators have fined 10 insurance companies a total of $5 million for underwriting the National Rifle Association’s troubled self-defense insurance programs in violation of state law, The Trace has learned. The fines were part of a…