the NRA...what's really good?
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They should be eradicated. What is the point of the NRA?
What purpose do they serve?
What purpose do they serve?
The NRA was more about Hunters, Sportsmen, Gun Safety until the 1970's when the Government started forcing guns to have serial numbers and other legal stuff.
After that they've just become a lobbying firm, needing membership fees to keep on lobbying. But as time moved on they need to keep raising their membership fees, thus the organization is dying because there is no real return for being in the NRA except coupons.
That and protecting your right to own the guns you want
My whole problem with the NRA is they don't focus on gun owners, they focus on gun manufacturers.
88m3
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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization" following recent mass shootings, arguing it uses its power "to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence."
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San Francisco board labels NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization'
“All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons
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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization" following recent mass shootings, arguing it uses its power "to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence."
About this website
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San Francisco board labels NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization'
“All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons
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I walk the streets like, ''say something, n!gga!''
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I truly can't express how much I hate liberals, liberalism, leftism, "cultural marxists" or whatever fukk else you want to call these people.
If there were ever an excuse for black people and people in general to stay strapped it would be California. These people absolutely hate liberty. Pure demonic shytbags. . .
If there were ever an excuse for black people and people in general to stay strapped it would be California. These people absolutely hate liberty. Pure demonic shytbags. . .
The Hill
2 hrs ·
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization" following recent mass shootings, arguing it uses its power "to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence."
About this website
THEHILL.COM
San Francisco board labels NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization'
“All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons
NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals
Link to Senate Report
Referred to the IRS for tax-exempt status violations, mostly in regards to deep connections to the Russians:mjthanoslit:
Link to Senate Report
Referred to the IRS for tax-exempt status violations, mostly in regards to deep connections to the Russians:mjthanoslit:
ADevilYouKhow
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ADevilYouKhow
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Nail em
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Damn. this shyt is big but gonna get dwarfed in the news cycle by the Trump Ukraine/impeachment.
LETS GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
CONGRESSIONAL PROBE FINDS NRA WAS PEDDLING CASH FOR RUSSIAN BUSINESS AND INFLUENCE!!!!!
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Senate Democrats accuse NRA of promising access to U.S. officials in exchange for Russian business
Leigh Ann CaldwellLeigh Ann Caldwell is an NBC News correspondent.
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WASHINGTON — The results of a congressional probe into the National Rifle Association’s ties to Russia paints a picture of NRA officials providing Russian officials access to American elected officials in exchange for lucrative business opportunities.
The investigation, conducted by Senate Finance Committee Democrats who released a report on their findings Friday, found that top officials at the NRA used the organization’s financial resources — largely collected by member dues — to curry favor with two Russians, Aleksander Torshin, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia, and his deputy, Maria Butina, who said they had access to top Russian officials.
The investigators focused on a trip in 2015 in which Butina and Torshin led a delegation of NRA officials to Moscow. Former NRA President David Keene and his wife, Donna Keene, organized the trip with the promise of new business opportunities by the Russians, including access to a Russian arms manufacturer that was under U.S. sanctions.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, launched his probe in February 2018 just as federal investigators were exploring potential links between Kremlin-linked individuals and the powerful gun lobby. The final report from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team did not specifically address the NRA’s relationship with Moscow.
Wyden alleges that the NRA might have violated numerous tax laws by ignoring the parameters associated with nonprofit tax status. He is calling on the IRS to investigate.
“This report lays out in significant detail that the NRA lied about the 2015 delegation trip to Moscow. This was an official trip undertaken so NRA insiders could get rich — a clear violation of the principle that tax-exempt resources should not be used for personal benefit,” Wyden said in a statement.
"The NRA has abused its tax-exempt status and essentially become a business enterprise that its board members and leadership use for lucrative personal business opportunities, including in Moscow," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Friday. "As the disturbing truth continues to surface, the NRA’s status as a tax exempt entity needs to be thoroughly investigated.”
The NRA is currently undergoing a crisis in its ranks as infighting and federal investigation into its finances have rocked the organization. The New York State attorney general is investigating the organization for allegations that it violated its tax status. Butina is serving an 18 month sentence for conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign official.
The probe was limited in scope. It relied on the NRA to voluntarily hand over documents and the Republicans on the Finance Committee opted not to cooperate with the investigation.
The staff for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, reviewed the documents obtained by Wyden’s staff and issued a separate report stating they found that the $6,000 in question to pay for the trip to Russia is “relatively insubstantial” and the evidence “does not raise concerns that the NRA abused its tax-exempt status purposes” when NRA officials traveled to Moscow in 2015.
“The Minority report reads more like a political document directed at an organization well known in U.S. politics to be despised by Democrats for its advocacy for Second Amendment rights,” the Republican response says.
The Democratic investigation did not reveal the kind of expansive scheme by Russia to launder millions into the U.S. election campaign through the gun lobby, as McClatchy had reported was being explored by federal investigators. Documents obtained by Wyden’s team showed more limited financial relationships, though; in one case, the gun lobby would offer payments to Butina as a reimbursement for expenses she said she incurred while hosting the NRA delegation in Moscow, despite the group later saying the trip was not official business.
When Butina told the Keenes that a senior Russian delegation would only meet with the group if the “head of the most powerful political organization in America” attended, Donna Keene fretted in one email to then-NRA President Allan Cors that his cancellation “will risk — I think completely burn — all the inroads NRA volunteers have worked on so hard for so long,” while also potentially hurting Torschins’s “pro-American career.”
“We’ve worked for 7 years to build trust with the Russians,” Keene added.
Peter Brownell, an Iowa native and ammunition company executive who was set to succeed Cors as NRA president, would ultimately attend in place of Cors. Another email obtained by the committee showed a conservative operative linked with the Mueller probe promising Brownell that he would “benefit greatly” from the trip by building connections with Russian arms manufacturers.
The congressional probe also found that the NRA provided both Russians “broad access to events” over a three-year period, where both could have met top GOP figures including presidential candidates.
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This should be the death blow to the NRA:
:ALERTRED:
LMAO!!!!!
What an absolute L
They're not even hiding it
Putin out here rallying the troops
BILLIONAIRE TRUMP IS ASKING THE NRA FOR MONEY!!!!!!!
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense
Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association. He has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House.CreditCreditSaul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni
It was not clear whether Mr. Trump asked Mr. LaPierre for his support, or if the idea was pitched by the N.R.A. But in return for the support, Mr. LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said.
Mr. LaPierre has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the months since the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a series of calls and meetings, he has tried to move Mr. Trump away from proposing any sort of background check measures that he said after the mass shootings he might support.
But caught between political pressures to do something and doing nothing on gun legislation, Mr. Trump has been idling while Congress waits for a sign from the White House on what it plans to propose. Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. LaPierre on Friday indicated that his priority may be his own political survival rather than making any strides on guns.
Meanwhile, White House aides and Mr. Trump’s allies have been seeking to blame Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced a formal impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump on Tuesday, for lowering the chances of working together on bipartisan measures.
“It’s no secret the president wants meaningful solutions to protect American communities and potentially stop one of these tragedies from ever happening again,” said Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesman, “and he’s going to continue doing his job even though Democrats refuse to do theirs.”
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LMAO!!!!!
What an absolute L
They're not even hiding it
Putin out here rallying the troops
BILLIONAIRE TRUMP IS ASKING THE NRA FOR MONEY!!!!!!!
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense
Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association. He has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House.CreditCreditSaul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni
- Sept. 27, 2019, 4:59 p.m. ET
It was not clear whether Mr. Trump asked Mr. LaPierre for his support, or if the idea was pitched by the N.R.A. But in return for the support, Mr. LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said.
Mr. LaPierre has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the months since the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a series of calls and meetings, he has tried to move Mr. Trump away from proposing any sort of background check measures that he said after the mass shootings he might support.
But caught between political pressures to do something and doing nothing on gun legislation, Mr. Trump has been idling while Congress waits for a sign from the White House on what it plans to propose. Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. LaPierre on Friday indicated that his priority may be his own political survival rather than making any strides on guns.
Meanwhile, White House aides and Mr. Trump’s allies have been seeking to blame Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced a formal impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump on Tuesday, for lowering the chances of working together on bipartisan measures.
“It’s no secret the president wants meaningful solutions to protect American communities and potentially stop one of these tragedies from ever happening again,” said Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesman, “and he’s going to continue doing his job even though Democrats refuse to do theirs.”
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