The NRA is not what some believe they are. Gun owners have been used by those in charge of running the NRA..gun owners have been scammed by those using donations and dues for their own personal pleasure, to the tune of millions and maybe billions of dollars.
NRA lawsuit: who are the four leaders accused of corruption?
Wayne LaPierre, Wilson Phillips, Joshua Powell and John Frazer have held leading positions at the National Rifle Association
A lawsuit by Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, has sued the powerful National Rifle Association, and also its four top leaders in an attempt to expose alleged corruption and misuse of funds.
Who are they and what are they accused of doing?
Wayne LaPierre The NRA executive vice-president and chief executive has led the group for 39 years. His best-known mantra, repeated after mass shootings in the US, including in schools, is: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
He has called for armed guards at every school in America and he leads lobbying efforts against any new laws proposed to curb gun sales, or any restrictive interpretation of the US constitution’s second amendment about the right to bear arms.
Thursday’s lawsuit alleges he “has exploited the organization for his financial benefit … [and] to continue, by use of a secret ‘poison pill contract’, his employment even after removal and ensuring NRA income for life; and to intimidate, punish, and expel anyone at a senior level who raised concerns about his conduct. The effect has been to divert millions of dollars away from the charitable mission.”
He is accused of diverting NRA funds for “trips to the Bahamas to vacation on a yacht owned by the principal of numerous NRA vendors … costly black car services, gifts for favored friends”.
LaPierre was invited to the White House two weeks after Donald Trump took office in 2017, after the NRA donated at least $30m to his election campaign.
Wilson Phillips Phillips was a former treasurer and chief financial officer of the NRA for 26 years, until 2018, when he retired.
He is popularly known as “Woody” and is described by the lawsuit as being “among the senior executives LaPierre handpicked to facilitate his misuse of charitable assets”. He and two other fellow defendants are described as having been hired despite a lack of skills and experience.
Phillips is accused of facilitating millions of dollars in entertainment and travel expenses incurred by NRA executives and being improperly billed to the group and evading IRS requirements.
A report in the New Yorker last year alleged that before working for the NRA, in the early 90s, Phillips was quietly fired by a consultancy firm in Washington DC after a $1m embezzlement.
He was hired for the NRA by LaPierre in 1993. Between 2005 and 2017 he was paid at least $10m, the New Yorker said, citing available tax filings.
Joshua Powell Powell is a former NRA chief of staff and executive director of general operations.
According to the lawsuit, Powell was fired by the NRA in January 2020 for falsifying expenses. He allegedly exploited his NRA credit card and ran up huge bills at “a high-end Italian restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia”.
Before that Phillips nearly tripled his salary in less than three years, to $800,000, despite three complaints of abusive behavior, and evidence of illegal conduct and inappropriate spending, the lawsuit says.
He began working for the NRA in January 2017, brought in to “modernize” the NRA, and in December 2018, LaPierre created the role of senior strategist for Powell.
Powell was accused of sexual harassment in the workplace, which he denied, according to an investigation by the Trace and ProPublica.
Millions of dollars of NRA funds were misappropriated with Powell’s assistance, the lawsuit says, and he secured contracts that secretly benefited family members.
John Frazer Frazer is the NRA corporate secretary and general counsel. When the native New Yorker joined the NRA, he is described in the lawsuit as having only had only “a brief 18-month tenure in private practice and was unprepared to manage the legal and regulatory affairs of the NRA”.
He has been the secretary and general counsel and ex officio director of the NRA since 2015 and has worked at the NRA since 1993, the lawsuit says. Attorney General James seeks his ousting from the group.
He is accused of assisting LaPierre in diverting millions in NRA funds for the chief executive’s allegedly luxurious lifestyle.
“Frazer permitted the NRA to secretly pay millions of dollars to several board members through consulting arrangements that were neither disclosed to, nor approved by, the NRA board,” the lawsuit says.
He allegedly signed off on false financial filings to the authorities by the group, including documents submitted to the New York Charities Bureau.
It's what they do. I've not seen 1 dem/lib on here tell us what bidens plans are............all they do is attack trump.
No wonder biden lives in his basement. Or, out side, or in his sun room sun glasses on, so no one can see him attempting to read the teleprompter while still not being able to complete a sentence.
You haven't been paying attention. Ask Vers if I helped him. Then apologize.
Yet every election cycle it seems some lame brain leftist starts talking about taking or limiting guns.
I am no big gun guy. I have a shotgun and around 200 rounds in store. That isn't that much. My wife and I each have a 9mm with about the same each. Maybe a little less.
If you can't load the gun, you might as well have a tomahawk, and yes, I have one of those. I keep it by the door, just in case somebody wants to push in.
Paranoid, no. Prepared, yes. I was an Eagle Scout....always be prepared. Preparedness never hurts anything. Being unprepared does.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
There you go. As if you care or will actually look at it.
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No wonder biden lives in his basement. Or, out side, or in his sun room sun glasses on, so no one can see him attempting to read the teleprompter while still not being able to complete a sentence.
Do you mean like Trump and his Yo semite Thigh Land?
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
No, I mean like joe and his physical and mental filt...uh, filt.
I mean like joe honoring the kkk and Byrd.
I mean like joe poking fun of Indians (from india)
I mean like joe that has a fetish for young ladies.
I mean like joe that constantly gets confused, doesn't know where he is, then tries the "well, I was going to say something I shouldn't. Look, I've wasted too much time. I mean like joe that doesn't know his wife from his sister.
I mean like joe besting the bad dude, corn pop.
I mean like joe that hides in his basement, because his handlers, and even his wife, don't trust him to speak with out a teleprompter which he struggles to stick to.
I mean like Joe, that feels some 130 million people have died from covid, and some 120 million have died from gun violence in the last decade.
I mean like joe that thought his plans would employ some 700 million american women.
No, I mean like joe and his physical and mental filt...uh, filt.
I mean like joe honoring the kkk and Byrd.
I mean like joe poking fun of Indians (from india)
I mean like joe that has a fetish for young ladies.
I mean like joe that constantly gets confused, doesn't know where he is, then tries the "well, I was going to say something I shouldn't. Look, I've wasted too much time. I mean like joe that doesn't know his wife from his sister.
I mean like joe besting the bad dude, corn pop.
I mean like joe that hides in his basement, because his handlers, and even his wife, don't trust him to speak with out a teleprompter which he struggles to stick to.
I mean like Joe, that feels some 130 million people have died from covid, and some 120 million have died from gun violence in the last decade.
I mean like joe that thought his plans would employ some 700 million american women.
STOP trying to make it sound like Joe Biden is a Trumpian GOPer.
I haven't been wrong on anything other than thinking republicans in congress would do the right thing and remove Trump. He did work with Russia and is doing it again. This time Grassley and another senator are helping by using a russian oligarch's information in their investigation of Biden... I was right this whole presidency was a heist... I was right that Trump would crash the economy and fail... I was right that Mueller's report was damning and proved Trump commited crimes... I was right he would be impeached...
Now I know you buy Barr's BS and the spin Trump put's on all of this but I wasn't wrong about a damn thing. He's a dirtball and so are his supporters (not you guys of course, but don't ever come at me like you are a patriot because you are not).
Some are mocking people voicing their opinions on not allowing the powers that be to take our guns. However, I think it is important that the establishment knows our position.
There has been a ton of talk about gun control for years and acting like it isn't a real thing is insincere.
With the demands of hate groups like BLM who want to defund the police, release prisoners, threatening violence whether it be literally or figuratively, etc, etc...........those of us law-abiding citizens need our guns to protect our families from those who have guns and do not obey the laws.
I haven't been wrong on anything other than thinking republicans in congress would do the right thing and remove Trump. He did work with Russia and is doing it again. This time Grassley and another senator are helping by using a russian oligarch's information in their investigation of Biden... I was right this whole presidency was a heist... I was right that Trump would crash the economy and fail... I was right that Mueller's report was damning and proved Trump commited crimes... I was right he would be impeached...
Now I know you buy Barr's BS and the spin Trump put's on all of this but I wasn't wrong about a damn thing. He's a dirtball and so are his supporters (not you guys of course, but don't ever come at me like you are a patriot because you are not).
Dude, I'd like to live in a world like you do. Not the same world, mind you.
You have been wrong for 4 years, and if you can't admit it, there is no helping you.
It sounds like you have BDS. Biden derangement syndrome.
You blame everyone who says similar things about Trump as being nothing but haters. Then you go on and try and do the same thing. Even though most of the things you say are patently false.
The fact is this entire thread is based on a lie. Biden has never said anything about taking anyone's guns. Quite the opposite in fact. Trump doesn't know how to pronounce Yosemite or Thailand and you think you somehow have the room to question the mental capability of someone else.
How precious.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
But pulling off two 12 gauge rounds at the same time is so fun and sprays the buck shot so good I have plenty of time to reload.
It is fun, but still a little slow. I had a double as a kid.
It a good hunting gun, not as much for home protection, and that is more my concern these days than shooting a Pheasant, though that is a good eating bird.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
You can buy a seven shot Winchester 1200 or 1300 Defender model pump at a reasonable price. The barrel is shortened to the minimum allowed by law and is a very efficient weapon for home defense.
"Biden is “going to do things that nobody ever, would ever think even possible because he’s following the radical left agenda. Take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything. Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He’s against God."
On one hand Trump and people like yourself say Biden is too out of it to be president. Yet according to Trump himself, somehow he possesses the power to hurt the Bible and hurt God.
You may wish to clean up your own yard first before complaining how tall the neighbors grass is.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
In 'defund police' cities with rising crime, getting a gun no easy task: 'Near-impossible to get a permit' Strict laws, lack of shops, pandemic-related delays contribute to difficulty
In 'defund police' cities with rising crime, getting a gun no easy task: 'Near-impossible to get a permit' Strict laws, lack of shops, pandemic-related delays contribute to difficulty
There's no problems getting guns here. You can just buy it off the internet and they will ship it to a gun dealer nearby. That's what I did.
I also buy ammo off the internet. It's pricey, but easy to obtain currently.
It was a lot more difficult to obtain a gun when covid started and everyone was freaking out. Gun shops were empty here, but now they have guns again. Still not much ammo around here.
You can buy a seven shot Winchester 1200 or 1300 Defender model pump at a reasonable price. The barrel is shortened to the minimum allowed by law and is a very efficient weapon for home defense.
If you're set on pump instead of semi-auto, a Maverick 88 Security (made by Mossberg) with a folding stock will set you back only about $250.00. Add a breachers muzzle device for shooting against a wall/door and you are all set. Alternate the loading between slug & buck shot.
More preferably, however, is to get a semi-auto shotgun. Even better, is a box/magazine fed semi-auto.. which is where I recommend the Armscor/Rock Island VR80.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
I used to do a lot of quail hunting when I was younger. Before the 1978 blizzard when they were plentiful. I wasn't very proficient with a pump shotgun at the time. I used a Remington model 1100 semi auto. Sweet shotgun!
What I learned in the process was that someone who was very proficient with a pump could fire almost as rapidly if not just as rapidly as I could with a semi auto. Now I'm not going to try and claim that I'm that fast with a pump but it's closer than those who are not proficient with one might think.
Unlike what it seems some people feel, I don't expect a gang to attack my home. I feel pretty confident that having a seven shot pump can handle the situation along with other weapons I have to go with it for home pretection.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
My wife and I have been talking about a firearm for home protection. She's very much anti-guns, I'm actually pretty meh (despite my support for 2nd). If we did, it would be either a handgun or shotgun. The handgun has the benefit of size, while a pump shotty has the benefit of the sound it makes when you rack it. Shouldn't ever have to fire it at someone with that sound.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
There is also the accuracy factor to consider. If for some reason you do have to neutralize an actual threat, with a pistol you have to be a fairly accurate shot.
For someone not as adept with firearms, a shotgun gives you a pattern when you use ammo such as double 00 buckshot much larger and decreases the need for extreme accuracy.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
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