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Showing Original Post only (View all)NRA's Wayne LaPierre warns that group may be "shut down forever" thanks to Democrats. [View all]
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/
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Cattledog
Mar 2019
OP
Exactly. Reminds me of Oral Roberts' "God will call me home if you don't give more money" gimmick.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2019
#39
I'm to go fill the biggest, greatest, deepest Great Lake ever with thoughts and prayers for them.
The Genealogist
Mar 2019
#9
Total bullshit. It's a Rope-A-Dope ploy for money. EVERYTHING the right wing does is taken from the
BamaRefugee
Mar 2019
#13
Dammit. My gif isn't showing up. Are gifs not allowed on DU, or is there a workaround?
BamaRefugee
Mar 2019
#30
OR...do they know they're going down bc of distributing russian pay-off money,
Chin music
Mar 2019
#14
In other words, send more money, suckers. I'll believe the NRA is dead when a stake is driven thru
Hekate
Mar 2019
#19
I stopped my the NRA booth at a gun show last fall. Right after the story about their free coffee
brewens
Mar 2019
#31
Lying sacks of shit. Right after they said this the last time didn't make a multi-million dollar ad
Pepsidog
Mar 2019
#36
That statement alone will bring in a few million in donations. He knows his audience.
Squinch
Mar 2019
#43
There are plenty of gullible gun whack jobs out there that will forego paying their rent...
llmart
Mar 2019
#47
I love it when they (NRA - LaPierre) blames democrats too. We do own guns too.
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#48
Absolutely. As a former Eagle Scout Leader and former competitor in shooting, I get disgusted ...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#50
The thought brought a smile to my face but I don't believe his whining for...
Guilded Lilly
Mar 2019
#53