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Fraud is a common thread. Fraud is an area Trump, a fraud himself, has excelled at. The 2nd Amendment interpretation Americans overwhelmingly
accept as truth is a fraud. A fraud exploited and nurtured by the NRA. The leader Wayne Pierre is a fraud. Fraud is rampant within the NRA.

Good point. On the NRA takeover it was 1977. All key points anyone should ever need are in this article by Burton Newman
Attorney; Adjunct professor, Washington University School of Law, posted on April 17 2013, and by F6 here, three days later.
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How did the NRA gain such power and influence on our citizenry? For the first century of its existence beginning in 1871, the NRA primarily devoted its efforts to gun safety. Following enactment of new restrictive gun laws requiring gun licensing and taxes, a 1977 coup within the NRA membership led by militants resulted in a new harder edged and more aggressive NRA. The truth mattered not. The edifice of the NRA headquarters would now bear an abbreviated version of the Second Amendment: "The Right of the People to keep and Bear Arms Shall not be infringed." The NRA amended the Constitution unilaterally to avoid even a hint that the language pertaining to a Militia had any meaning. The law of the land spoke otherwise. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87067625
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The NRA's Fraud: Fabrication of Second Amendment Rights
By Burton Newman
Attorney; Adjunct professor, Washington University School of Law
Posted: 04/17/2013 4:13 pm
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ~ Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution
P - Following the Sandy Hook massacre, gun rights, gun laws and the Second Amendment have been the subject of a national dialogue. Any discussion of these topics is severely tainted by calculated messaging by the NRA to deceive and mislead our citizens to believe that the Second Amendment grants far reaching gun rights which have not and do not exist.
P - The Second Amendment became part of our constitution in 1791. For well over two centuries the Supreme Court never decided that the Amendment granted a constitutional right to individuals to bear arms. The widely held notion that such a right existed was a myth fabricated by the NRA for its own self interest and for the corporate profits of gun manufacturers. This fabrication altered the mindset of most Americans to accept fictional Second Amendment rights that permitted the proliferation of all manner and kind of dangerous weapons. We became a gun culture run rampant. The gun manufacturers reaped enormous profits as gun sales soared. In 2011 industry wide gun sales were $4.3 billion. Misconceptions generated by the NRA created a warped interpretation of Second Amendment that generated these sales.
P - The fraud perpetrated by the NRA is patent. We do not heed the warnings of prominent citizens such as former attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach, Ramsey Clark, Elliot L. Richardson, Edward Levi, Griffin B. Bell and Benjamin R. Civiletti. The joint statement in the Washington Post of these former attorneys general in 1992 reads as follows:
P - "For more than 200 years, the federal courts have unanimously determined that the Second Amendment concerns only the arming of the people in service to an organized state Militia: it does not guarantee immediate access to guns for private purposes. The nation can no longer afford to let the gun lobbies' distortion of the constitution cripple every reasonable attempt to implement an effective national policy towards guns and crime."
P - In a PBS News Hour interview in 1991, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger referred to the NRA Second Amendment myth as "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by any special interest group that I have ever seen in my lifetime." https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87067625

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NRA Exposé Reports ‘Chaos’ Inside Gun Group Facing ‘Serious Existential Threat,’ with Leader Wayne LaPierre ‘Worried About Going to Jail’
"Good point. On the NRA takeover it was 1977.
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In a PBS News Hour interview in 1991, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger referred to the NRA Second Amendment myth as "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by any special interest group that I have ever seen in my lifetime."
P - The opinions of these distinguished legal scholars had no bearing on NRA propaganda that continued unabated. During the weeks before the 2000 general election, a self-anointed constitution "scholar," Charleton Heston, ceremonial president of the NRA, flooded the airways to urge voters to support candidates who would protect and preserve Second Amendment rights. Little did most Americans realize that such rights did not exist. The NRA's reading of the Second Amendment was purely fictional and unsupported by the law of the land."
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“You hear NRA officials denigrate the people who might show up as ‘hillbillies,’ and ‘idiots’ and ‘nuts’ and ‘fruitcakes,'” Mak recalls. “You hear Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the organization, Marion Hammer, former president and longtime lobbyists, advisors, advertising people. And what you hear is this kind of snickering in the background, just kind of knowing snickering. But what’s so shocking about this, of course, is that these are the people who are most dedicated to the NRA’s mission.”
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“Another irony, of course, is that Wayne LaPierre doesn’t like to shoot firearms. He’s not he’s not a gun guy, and in fact, is not only bad at shooting firearms, can be downright dangerous with it,” noted Mak, making a point apparent to anyone who viewed leaked footage .. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-footage-of-nra-chief-wayne-lapierres-botched-elephant-hunt .. of the exec’s elephant hunt in Botswana.
P - In the book’s telling, LaPierre’s aversion to conflict allowed contractors to pull the NRA in self-interested directions with damaging business and public relations implications.
P - “What they’ve all realized over time is that if you bully Wayne LaPierre, you yell at him loudly enough, he’s eventually going to green light millions of dollars and sweetheart deals for people who have inside connections with the NRA—or golden parachutes for people who are who are senior executives, who are leaving the organization and want to get paid for doing virtually nothing at all,” Mak said.
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Broken & Bankrupt: The NRA in 2021
May 26, 2022

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA leadership are on borrowed time after a year of lawsuits, investigations, and personal embarrassments stemming from allegations of gross mismanagement of the organization. While the power and influence they have built will take years to dissipate fully, the bottom line is clear: the past year has been a disaster for the NRA, and LaPierre in particular.

NRA leaders were forced to reveal in bankruptcy proceedings the depths of their mismanagement and incompetence, spent millions just to lose control of both the White House and Congress, and found themselves at odds with the public at every turn as they pushed an extremist agenda.1

In the courtroom, it would be difficult for the NRA to find itself on worse footing. It is facing litigation not only from former vendors but also the New York and District of Columbia attorneys general for the extravagant spending that has come to define CEO Wayne LaPierre’s tenure. In the face of these threats, the NRA made what might be its most desperate move yet: a Hail Mary bankruptcy filing in Texas in search of a proverbial get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Put plainly, the NRA couldn’t even file bankruptcy correctly.
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It didn’t work. In its Chapter 11 filing, the NRA spent millions on legal fees only to get

* Testimony in open court about rampant mismanagement.

* Evidence of luxurious personal spending by LaPierre including his private jet travel paid for by the NRA and family trips on a yacht paid for by a stakeholder of a key NRA vendor.

* The board president admitting to shredding and burning documents after being “told they could be subpoenaed and used.”

* A CFO pleading the Fifth Amendment.

*i Ultimately a dismissal, with the judge finding the bankruptcy was not filed in good faith and that LaPierre’s efforts to hide the bankruptcy from the board were “shocking.”

Put plainly, the NRA couldn’t even file bankruptcy correctly.

NRA leaders also helped cement the organization’s reputation for pushing an extremist agenda. Last year, as COVID-19 spread across the country, the NRA leadership used the moment to focus on their real priority: pushing a guns everywhere, for anyone, agenda.

With the NRA Annual Meeting of Members scheduled for October 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina, this report lays out the details of the reality the NRA doesn’t want to talk about with its members. From the NRA’s travels through the court system to answer for its various misdeeds, to the lurid details of mismanagement and incompetence coming out of those court cases, to a diminished balance sheet, to the various forms of extremism it has embraced, to its waning influence in American politics, the past year at the NRA is one Wayne LaPierre and NRA leaders would like you to forget.

Jump to:

* Wayne LaPierre’s Mismanagement and Abuse Surface from Courtroom
https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/#mismanagement

* Litigations, Bankruptcy, and Investigations
https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/#Litigations

* In a Year of Crisis and Upheaval, the NRA Doubled Down on Extremism
https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/#extremism

* Continuing Financial Turmoil at the NRA
https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/#financial

* NRA Election Failures Underscore Its Waning Influence
https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/#election

https://nrawatch.org/report/the-continued-decline-of-the-nra/