While the National Rifle Association’s internal and external troubles are making headlines with a new lawsuit filed against its advertising agency and an open letter of support for CEO Wayne LaPierre posted on the organization’s website, the CEO of United Airlines was challenged during a stockholders’ meeting this week about the airline’s decision to end […]
NRA Drama Heats with New York Investigation, Subpoenas
UPDATED: As the embattled National Rifle Association’s Board of Directors gathered to meet Monday in Indianapolis following a contentious members’ meeting Saturday and crowded exhibit hall featuring “acres” of guns and gear, New York Attorney General Letitia James—no friend of the organization—announced she was launching an investigation of NRA and issuing subpoenas. James has called […]
NRA Board Change Sees Oliver North Tapped as President
The National Rifle Association announced Monday that retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North will become the next president of the association “within a few weeks,” in an unusual chain of developments that saw Pete Brownell decide not to run for a second term, and the organization’s first and second vice presidents unable to […]
NRA’s LaPierre Rips ‘Elite Media’ as Thousands Jam Convention
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivered a fiery — some might call it pure boilerplate — speech to a crowded members’ meeting Saturday focusing on one of the organization’s favorite targets: the media. Using a series of clips from past confrontations with the press and speeches over the years in which he […]
New Study Says ‘Mass’ Shootings = Less Than 1% of Gun Deaths
A new study appearing in Monday’s Annals of Internal Medicine, and reported by CNN, contained two revelations including one that may cause a problem for gun prohibitionists: Mass shootings make up less than 1 percent of U.S. gun deaths. The study, titled “Handgun Acquisitions in California After Two Mass Shootings,” appeared coincidentally on the day […]
National CCW Reciprocity a Reality Under Trump?
When the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms last week called on President-elect Donald Trump to “make the Second Amendment great again,” one item of possible business that got attention on social media was national concealed carry reciprocity. SAF and CCRKBA encouraged Trump to have his new […]