Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumNRA's Wayne LaPierre warns that group may be "shut down forever" thanks to Democrats.
National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre issued a stark warning that the group may be forced to shut down due to financial woes in a fundraising letter to supporters.
LaPierre wrote in a four-page letter that the group may be forced to shutter very soon, The Daily Beast reported. The NRA chief blamed the financial woes on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who last year directed state regulators to "urge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle Association."
LaPierre wrote that Cuomos tactics are already working.
Right now were facing an attack thats unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA, but in the entire history of our country. And if this attack succeeds, NRA will be forced to shut down forever, LaPierre wrote.
And let me be clear, he added. Cuomos tactics are already working. One by one, more and more banks and insurance companies across the country are knuckling under to Cuomos threat and telling NRA they wont do business with us because they dont want to be targeted and crushed by Cuomos strong-arm tactics and the vast power of thousands of New York bureaucrats.
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/29/nras-wayne-lapierre-warns-that-group-may-be-shut-down-forever-thanks-to-democrats/
C_U_L8R
(45,695 posts)Zoonart
(12,750 posts)curlyred
(1,879 posts)lastlib
(24,918 posts)I'm sure all those dead children at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc., will look down and cry crocodile tears when you and your evil organization shuffle off this mortal coil. Don't let the door hit ya.......
forgotmylogin
(7,676 posts)Leghorn21
(13,738 posts)Adios LOSERS, send Torshin our
May 2018:
Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda says Don Jr should be "very concerned" about wiretaps of his meetings w Putin crony Alexander Torshin (also NRA's contact in Russia). Grinda turned those wiretaps over to FBI.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-should-be-concerned-over-putin-allys-wiretapped-calls-spanish-945753
Jose Grinda
aggiesal
(9,474 posts)katmondoo
(6,498 posts)Faux pas
(15,368 posts)Irishxs
(622 posts)leftieNanner
(15,698 posts)I think this is just a way for Wayne to drag some more $$ out of his slavering cult.
They're not going out of business because they get so much money from the gun MANUFACTURERS. When they go out of business, then we can talk.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Midnight Writer
(22,976 posts)Irishxs
(622 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,276 posts)The NRA used to be all about rifles for hunters, not much more. Now it advocates for letting anyone load up on deadly firearms. We all know the periodic carnage this has caused.
They have lots of blood on their hands and no shame about that at all.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)The National Rifle Association and its embarrassing lobbyist step brother the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action.
You have to wonder about anything named institute that would hire Nugent.
The Genealogist
(4,736 posts)I doubt greatly that they are going to be shuttered. They are exploiting their negative press to wring more moolah out of the gun nutters.
cstanleytech
(27,012 posts)CCExile
(524 posts)regarding the Boy Scouts? Seems like they were once a organization for good, as well.
BamaRefugee
(3,706 posts)antics of "professional" wrestling, the feuds, the ever changing roles of bad guys becoming good guys and vice versa, tossing the referee through the air and out of the ring (exactly how Republicans now treat Democratic lawmakers), on and on and on.
ALL OF TRUMP's actions stem from this too, never forget scenes like the gif here, and don't forget that tRumps' BASE actually thinks rasslin' is FOR REAL! This little vignette shows how his base believes he treats dictators around the world, when in actuality it should be a scene from "CALIGUA".
BamaRefugee
(3,706 posts)Chin music
(24,300 posts)and want to get the gun nuts anger to be shifted elsewhere for their own folly? Hard to say. Especially when they speak in all lies, all the time.
eppur_se_muova
(37,422 posts)yaesu
(8,236 posts)but really, this is just a ploy to sucker more gun nuts to send money.
Funny after the Russian money dried up the NRA has gone almost all the way under. Putin was using the NRA to stoke divisions in America.
Thekaspervote
(34,655 posts)Hekate
(94,691 posts)...its cold dead heart and I read the news in a thoughtful series in the Los Angeles Times.
patphil
(6,960 posts)I wonder how the Russians will launder money into the Republican campaigns if the NRA is gone?
Patrick Phillips
Lonestarblue
(11,835 posts)Fund-raising ploy to get the gun-loving anti-government groups to pony up more money. Ill believe this story only when theyre gone.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)could it be today? evil piece of shit organizations that advocate for murder and profit off it, should not exist.
mantis49
(844 posts)to gin up support and donations in their frequent mailings.
After the 2016 elections, they were saying the UN was going to take away their guns!!!
doc03
(36,711 posts)so now they need mo money or go broke.
sarisataka
(21,001 posts)Is done for too. The crushing defeat in the 2016 election will be the nail in their coffin...
RandySF
(70,644 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Can't happen too soon as far as I am concerned.
Buh-bye NRA!
Ohiogal
(34,714 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,133 posts)NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/
The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns
When begging for bucks goes wrong.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-being-sued-over-its-relentless-telemarketing-campaigns
The NRA has employed InfoCision since 2012 under a contract that grants the fundraising company up to 65 percent of the funds it raises on the NRAs behalf. InfoCision gets between $2.50 and $3.75 for each completed call to potential NRA donors, and up to half of the regular payments for new or renewed NRA memberships.
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If those high fees are unavoidable, they can also have the effect of obscuring, for a potential donor, exactly where his or her money is going. Many of those speaking with an InfoCision fundraiser, after all, will not know that a majority of their donation is not going to the charity that fundraiser is representing.
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NRA solicitations
comment from a blog - (DU I think)
I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but thats what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.
brewens
(15,359 posts)being cut off at the HQ came out. I bullshitted with them for a minute and said, "I bet you guys could really use some coffee, I'll buy." I thought it would piss them off and be funny, but it went right over their heads! Doh! Cost me four bucks I think! I should know better. They would never get a subtle dig like that.
jmowreader
(51,466 posts)That there are gun-rights groups that didnt launder money for the Russians in 2016 is the problem.
sarge43
(29,155 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,691 posts)Pepsidog
(6,311 posts)buy.
D23MIURG23
(3,085 posts)As a gun owner, I would love it if there were a gun rights group that wasn't a mouthpiece for nutjobs and a covert vehicle for Russian interests.
weissmam
(905 posts)who gives a rats ass
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,133 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,270 posts)Its working. NRA has become a sponsor of domestic terrorism and cannot continue.
Squinch
(52,752 posts)LW1977
(1,395 posts)Keep it up!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,957 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,636 posts)We're just doing our jobs as decent human beings.
llmart
(16,331 posts)and send their money. This is just a dog whistle to them from this asshole to send him more money.
SWBTATTReg
(24,107 posts)You hypocrite and fear monger (LaPierre).
Gun safety is for all people, regardless of party affiliation or the like. It's remarks like this that cause people to stop supporting creeps like you, who has to bring a political bias into the picture when it has nothing to do w/ it. Why don't you call your Russian buddies for money?
Evolve Dammit
(18,635 posts)They got totally co-opted into a very aggressive, they're coming for yer guns organization. Rabid replaced rational.
SWBTATTReg
(24,107 posts)by this failure of the NRA to go back to basics and get out of the 'coming for your guns' rhetoric, which has never, ever, been true.
doc03
(36,711 posts)mountain grammy
(27,277 posts)and you're welcome!
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Did Russia start paying in rubles?
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)a New York minute.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)To find dozens of mags that glorify rapid fire, devastating, weaponry over 'the Outdoor LIfe/Field and Stream' type.
I understand the hunting/fishing mags 'food on the table' message.
The collective weapon/ammo manufacturers will just put another mouthpiece in place to spout fear if the NRA 'folds'.
Gov. Cuomo could have gone further to also reviewing the banks relations with the above mentioned manufacturing collective.
And ban all foreign made weapons.
The fact that the first tool used by the protohumans is a weapon to commit murder, is only one of the challenging evolutionary and philosophic questions posed by the film 2001:A Space Odyssey. The tool's link to the present day is made by the famous graphic match from the bone/tool flying in slow motion into the air, to a weapon orbiting the earth.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)Sarcasm
Renew Deal
(82,931 posts)Buzz cook
(2,587 posts)The NRA funded the Newtown truthers. For that alone they should be wiped from the face of the earth.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/01/sandy-hook-truthers-the-nra-has-actively-encouraged-the-paranoid-fears-of-conspiracy-theories-after-gun-massacres.html
Me.
(35,454 posts)They're no better at delivering on their promises than Individual 1
doc03
(36,711 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,133 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,133 posts)gopiscrap
(24,170 posts)FUCK the NRA!!!!
Straw Man
(6,774 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)
... if a right-wing governor took state contracts away from any company that did business with Planned Parenthood? This is a governor using the power of his office to crush an advocacy group whose cause he disagrees with. This is executive overreach at its extra-judicial, extra-legislative worst.