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-Lurid Crime Tales-

NRA's Impressive Record of Defeat

2023-07-27

[Ammoland] U.S.A. — The National Rifle Association has received yet another judicial slap-down. Lead counsel Bill Brewer, along with attorneys for Wayne LaPierre, Secretary John Frazer, former Treasurer Woody Phillips, and former executive Josh Powell filed yet another raft of petitions calling for the suit to be dismissed or seriously throttled. In an order issued on June 8, the judge in the case rejected virtually all of these motions and petitions, most of which had already been previously rejected by the court. Not surprisingly, Judge Cohen, who has been very fair and reasonable in his handling of the case, after rejecting the defense motions and affirming several petitions from the plaintiff, NY AG Letitia James, ordered that all parties involved "submit a joint letter proposing a trial plan and schedule so that the Court can reserve the necessary dates" for trial. The ruling is just one more in a long line of defeats for the NRA, with Brewer at the helm of its legal strategy.

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past four years — as is apparently the case with many NRA members and the entire NRA Board of Directors — the Attorney General of New York filed charges against the Association and several of its top executives in August of 2020 after the publication of a damning investigative report in April of 2019. The New York AG charged Association’s paid staff and elected officers with diverting charitable funds away from their intended purposes and into the pockets of NRA brass and their pals.

There is no question that the New York Attorney General is an ambitious, partisan politician who campaigned on a promise to destroy the NRA, and it is undeniable that her pursuit of the Association is very much politically motivated. In their talking points, the NRA "leadership" restates that accurate analysis, and goes on to dismiss everything raised in the suit as just a politically-motivated attack with no substance. The trouble is that dismissal is a lie. There is a great deal of substance to the suits.

When James’ investigators started looking into the organization, they found a seething den of corruption. In short, virtually all of the charges brought by the NY AG are backed up by documentary evidence and appalling levels of self-incrimination on the part of NRA "leaders."

The sad truth is that NRA executives and their cronies have been blatantly pocketing tens of millions of dollars from the NRA for years. Meanwhile, the NRA Board of Directors, who hold a fiduciary responsibility to the members of the Association, have willfully looked away, abdicating their responsibilities, instead standing resolutely behind Wayne LaPierre and his fellow miscreants.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 ^ ditto

Posted by: Mercutio 2023-07-27 20:05

#5 The only reason I still have membership is my range requirements include that. Given my range membership is $200/yr for a wonderful shooting center that I had to wait 2 years to get into means I'll keep it up.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-07-27 17:32

#4 They're irrelevant. The fight for RKBA is local.

Posted by: badanov 2023-07-27 16:32

#3 NRA hasn't been a real 2A defender since the 80s-early 90s. Several leftist in sheep's clothing got onto the board during the Clinton years and it went downhill from there. Now it is about the level of the SPLC for defending the constitution and our rights.

Posted by: DarthVader 2023-07-27 11:14

#2 Yeah, and just like BLM, the NRA leadership is robbing the till...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-27 11:10

#1 The New York AG charged Association’s paid staff and elected officers with diverting charitable funds away from their intended purposes and into the pockets of NRA brass and their pals.

So just like BLM. I'm sure the AG is pursuing that group as well. /sarc

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-07-27 10:17

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