Notes from the Resistance
Fusaro has offered a detailed plan, and good one. It’s up to NRA and VCDL to share what plans they have developed to see how their detailed strategies compare… [More]
What happens here will be a bellwether for the midterms. We’re either serious about this — and willing to do all the necessary things — or we’re not and we won’t.
Walz to call special session on gun control, propose assault weapons ban [More]
What lies must he have told NRA to get its endorsement? Apparently he didn’t have to, since his “unwavering pro-gun support” was based on “sportsmen” and “rich hunting heritage.”
[Via Jess]
NRA’s EVP&CEO Problem-President Bachenberg Responds [More]
Sounds like they’re going to fix it, which means they recognize it needs to be fixed, which means all those giving excuses that it’s not important and not to worry our pretty little heads about it were just blowing hot air.
And yeah, I’ve been the only one ’til now, but Nicholas is the one who got a response.
Should I accept or decline her offer? [More]
Well, since you asked, yes, but with caveats.
I wouldn’t go in with attitude if I wanted to get something done or maintain contact. I also wouldn’t go with a list of all grievances. If you can get one or two resolved, that would be “a good first step” and open a door for further interaction. I’d also let her know of my intent to share the basics of our conversation with other RKBA advocates.
I’d pick something where an unequivocal resolution is doable, and have a printed handout of my question/concern, with my contact information, to give her to back up our conversation, for instance:
As an activist member, I’m concerned with how hard it is to reach individual directors. Why can’t NRA post a form on its website allowing us to contact and communicate with one, more, or all of the directors? For that matter, why not make inclusion in an @NRA.org email address directory a requirement for all officers directors?
Or…
I keep seeing the Executive Vice President also referred to as CEO in official Association statements and documents, yet the Bylaws establish all authorized titles and specifically declares, ““The Board may not abolish said offices nor create any other offices.” What is the authority to not comply with that restriction?
Or just hand her this article and tell her you would like a formal written answer to the questions raised, and ask what she thinks a reasonable response time would be.
I’d then thank her for taking the time to meet with me and hear me out, shake hands, document and share the experience, and give an after action report to readers, following up as responses were given or commitments missed, sending her a link to all mentions and inviting her to respond to those.
Why do they under “skills particularly desired” among other more rational things list, “minorities”? Do they fail to realize the irony of putting “minorities” under “skills”? [More]
What, no LGBTQXYZ…?
I understand the importance of expanding support from groups that have previously not been politically involved. The Carl Malone ad was good marketing.
I just hope in its desperation to raise funds because of disaffecting so many members that NRA doesn’t lose itself to that Gun Culture 2.0 diversity nonsense.
ALSO:
A trip down the rabbit hole expands on something we talked about yesterday.
Jeff Knox, Again Responds To NRA’s EVP/CEO Problem [More]
I understand why they do it, but that doesn’t get rid of the problem:
You’ve hit on a critical point that highlights a potential discrepancy between the NRA’s internal governance documents (bylaws) and its external reporting… this kind of situation can create questions about the clarity and consistency of an organization’s governance practices.
In order to be consistent with the Bylaws, they would need to be changed. And while some maintain it’s no big deal, the question becomes “What other clearly stated rules/promises can be broken and shrugged off?”
Leaked Emails Reveal Warnings to NRA Leadership About Corruption Years Before NY Lawsuit [More]
Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown has long been a champion.
As with every anti-firearm “political agreement” at the UN, had it succeeded, U.S. manufacturers, retailers and users would be forced to comply with a global regulatory regime that no Congress ever approved and no American citizen voted for. [More]
How, without complicity and betrayal by the U.S. government?
Naturally, NSSF is all for international engagement.
I’ve made my views on giving foreign prohibitionists any say at all clear, bringing this rebuke from an NRA flack:
Yet despite this, those like David Codrea, in an article in the September 2003 issue of “Guns and Ammo”, would continue to council disengagement, retreat from the global battlefield, and a kind of pseudo-isolationism that fails to recognize that there are no protective oceans to hide behind in a world-wide battle of ideas. It is apparently more important for Codrea and his ilk to maintain an ideological purity of thought, rather than achieve any of the incremental positional successes that could best guarantee eventual victory. What is more, it is hard to imagine how an almost Islamist-like exclusionary world-view will enable the Codreas of the world to convert more than the occasional wandering “Aryan” to the paradise of a rapidly diminishing gunowner “reservation”.
The only response to globalist gun-grabbers is, “No. Your move.” And any trade pressure should be met with crushing pressure of or own.
On June 30, Lisa Supernaugh (formerly treasurer Woody Phillips’ right hand) filed a lawsuit against NRA, in Fairfax County Circuit Court. In it, she alleges that she was forced out after reporting illegalities, and that her termination violated New York and Virginia “whistleblower” legal protections. [More]
Everybody satisfied it could never happen again so it’s OK to resume sending money…?
[Via 2A White Rook]
Well. gentlemen I can’t tell you what what a pleasure it’s been for me to have President Bachenberg and Executive Vice President Hamlin talking to real NRA members with real questions. We couldn’t get to them all. So, if if you like what you saw here tonight you need to go to nra.org/townhall… [Watch at 56:06]
Except entering that url in the search bar redirects to https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR047644 which doesn’t give you the opportunity to ask any more questions. Maybe I’ll try another way:
I had to do a post instead of a reply because for reasons of its own, NRA did not publicize the “town hall” on X or Facebook.
These guys are like Wayne LaPierre without the skilled slickness.
The event, taking place Thursday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, invites members to “Join the conversation … to hear directly from Doug [and] ask questions about the direction of our Association.” [More]
I’ve signed up. Have you?
‘Town Hall’ Meeting Being Hosted by NRA’s EVP/CEO Doug Hamlin [More]
Members can register here. See?
I just turned in an AmmoLand article on this with what my question would be if mine gets picked.
What would YOU ask?
The Four Resolutions Raised at the 2025 NRA Annual Meeting [More]
Y’ever try to steer an oil tanker?
John Petrolino brings us the latest “reform” updates.
About the two that got shot down, my guess is condemning collusion would open the door to libel lawsuits, and I don’t know what Mr. Coy did to merit “no confidence” (aside from being an Old Guard apparatchik).
As for conflicts of interest, I never expect anything of anyone I’m not prepared to uphold myself, and I spell out my own self-controls over in the sidebar under my “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Advertising Disclosure” policies. So yeah, I expect these guys to be clean.
I have been saying for years we need the current Bylaws online. In addition to info on the board, how about somebody listen to Nicholas and give members an effective way to contact them individually?
NRA-ILA Petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NFA Restrictions on Short-Barreled Rifles [More]
Pretty long on “common use” popularity and pretty short on core purpose except to address militia controls, as opposed to militia necessity.
Now all SCOTUS has to do is… nothing.
[Via Jess]
His email lays out a very disturbing story, regarding how an NRA Counselor … tried to take over and profit from his associations women’s programs. It involves police, $10,000 in legal bills, and NRA HQ’s total dismissal of his associations concerns and troubles. [More]
So… grassroots OCD hasn’t diminished a bit under “new management”…?
Oscar Mayer’s Fleet of Wienermobiles Go Head-to-Head in Inaugural ‘Wienie 500’ [More]
Oh, no! The NRA entry spun out and cracked up in the first lap! WarOnGuns has obtained an exclusive photo…
[Via Steve T]
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for an IRS investigation into a startling allegation made by former NRA President and Second Amendment champion Marion Hammer in a federal lawsuit in which she says an attorney representing the Brady gun control group allegedly offered her $5 million to “retire and cease advancing the interests of the NRA and defending the Second Amendment”… “This is not the kind of offer a tax exempt organization should be making under any circumstances” … [More]
Hopefully there’s documentation. What a hoot it would be to see them have their 501(c)(4) classification revoked, and one of their mouthpieces get disbarred over ethics.
