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Tombstone, Arizona – Ballots for the 2025 NRA Director election are arriving now, with voting open through March. In total, 28 seats are up for election, with about 50 people vying for those seats, including 2 write-in candidates. Those 28 seats represent slightly more than one-third of the 76-member Board, and this election has the potential to give “reformers” on the Board an overwhelming majority going forward.
In years past, I have recommended “Bullet Voting” in NRA elections, but that was when the reformers were an insurgency movement running one or two candidates against an entrenched establishment.
The easy, no fuss way to accomplish this is to look for the two-page ad in the middle of the magazine talking about NRA 2.0 Values and just vote for the people listed in that ad, including two write-in candidates to add on the back of the ballot.
Continue reading NRA Board Election 2025 Endorsements: Future of NRA is in Members’ Hands
Dallas, Texas, January 12, 2025 – The Winter meeting of the NRA Board of Directors wrapped up just after midnight last night (January 11/12/25) in Dallas, after almost a week of committee meetings and a long, sometimes contentious meeting of the Board.
As I understand it, Mr. LaPierre has filed a notice of appeal on that judgment, so the NRA will need to hold onto the money until that or any other appeals are finally concluded, which could take years. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
Did you notice the short blurb in your December NRA magazine regarding a vote by the NRA Board of Directors to eliminate the Special Litigation Committee (SLC)?
It was published in the “Official Journal” section toward the back of the various magazines without any fanfare. It simply stated the motion that was voted on and listed the “Yeas and Nays”—the names of those Directors who voted for the proposal and those who voted against it.
This was an important vote that you should take special note of because NRA Board of Director elections are coming and how Directors voted on this matter is very pertinent.
During his time at NRA-ILA and afterward, one of my father, Neal Knox’s, key strategies was to push for votes on pro-rights bills in Congress and state legislatures, even when our side didn’t appear to have the votes to win. I’ve maintained the same advice over the twenty-plus years that I’ve been lobbying and advising state grassroots groups. The objective is not necessarily to win the vote, but to smoke out our opponents. Get them to go on record either supporting or opposing a proposal, then put that record in front of voters come election season.
That’s exactly what this internal BOD vote published in NRA magazines was all about.
Continue reading NRA Members: Voting Matters ~ Your Votes vs Their Votes
Tombstone, Arizona – Have you talked politics recently with everyone in your circle of influence, especially your family and particularly the women in your life?
It’s important that every GunVoter be proactive in talking with their spouse, family, and friends about the current elections.
(Early voting has already begun in many places.)[And YES you should vote early!]
It’s even more important when that spouse, family member, or friend is a woman because there is a wide division between the way men and women are planning to vote this year. Right now polls show that male voters are leaning toward Trump and the pro-gun Republicans by a split of as much as 60/40, while female voters are leaning toward Harris and Democrats by a split of about 56/34. Continue reading Who’s Voting With You? Make Sure You Talk Politics with Everyone
Tombstone, Arizona – Time has almost run out for nominating new candidates for election to the NRA Board of Directors.
If you are a Life Member of the NRA, or an Annual Member with five or more years of uninterrupted membership, you are a Voting Member of the Association and eligible to help nominate candidates for the NRA Board of Directors.
Director candidates can be nominated in two ways. They can be nominated by the Nominating Committee of the Board, or they can be nominated by petition of the members.
The Nominating Committee (NC) met in early September and nominated 39 candidates, but two of those candidates have since declined, leaving 37 candidates nominated by the NC. Of the candidates nominated by the NC, only 4 were new candidates expressly endorsed by the leaders of the reform movement within the Board, with an additional 4 of the endorsed incumbents being nominated, so that’s eight nominally “reform” candidates out of 39. Continue reading Urgent Call to Action for NRA Voting Members ~ Support these NRA Board Candidates
We have a very short window in which to get 400+ qualified signatures of Voting Members of the NRA on each of over a dozen candidate petitions.
We were disappointed that the NRA Nominating Committee blocked most of the reform candidates from nomination, so now the only way to get them on the ballot is via the petition process, but petitions must be received by NRA from the candidates by October 8, or they will be ruled invalid.
That doesn’t give us much time, especially once you take into account the time it takes to mail signed petitions to the candidates, get NRA Member Numbers verified, and mail them on to NRA HQ. Continue reading Sign Petitions to Get Reform Candidates on the NRA Ballot
What do NRA members, former NRA members, and the general shooting public think about the NRA today?
That’s a question that I and many others have long believed we could reasonably answer, but are my beliefs accurate and justified? Do these folks really think and believe as I think they do, or am I just relying on an echo chamber effect?
Looking at the presidential race and the wide divisions between Republicans and Democrats, “progressives” and “conservatives,” I recognize that we all tend to live in an information bubble of our own making. As a lifelong “conservative,” I tend to gravitate toward Ben Shapiro, Bill Whittle, my community on X, and my favorite blogs and websites for political news and analysis, while my “liberal” friends tend to gravitate to MSNBC, “The View,” their community on X, and their favorite blogs and websites for theirs.
We all like to have our biases confirmed, our ideas echoed, and our beliefs supported. This is true for firearms information and firearms-related politics as well.
Continue reading What Do Members Really Think About Their NRA Organization?
Reformers on the NRA Board of Directors are now between a rock and a hard place.
The rock is NRA members demanding sweeping changes before they will consider rejoining or contributing to the Association. The hard place is to keep the Association solvent long enough to get those demanded changes done.
We’ve been through a scandal, a failed bankruptcy attempt, a jury trial on corruption and fiduciary failings, and a bench trial on remediating those fiduciary failings. We’ve gotten rid of problem vendors, banned Wayne LaPierre for ten years, and parted ways with the other executives who abused their positions for personal gain and the gain of their cronies. We’ve gotten a court order requiring LaPierre and former Treasurer Woody Phillips to repay millions of dollars in excess compensation, a fraction of the billions they have cost our fight. Most importantly, we’ve made sweeping changes to our financial control systems, contracting practices, and compliance processes, all to ensure that nothing like what was done before can be done in the future.
For years, we’ve all heard, “I won’t give one more dime to the NRA until Wayne LaPierre is gone.”
Continue reading NRA at the Crossroads: Your Voice is Crucial, NRA Board Needs to Hear From You
The trial in New York, pitting the New York Attorney General against the National Rifle Association, is over, and the judge has issued a partial decision.
At the end of that decision, Judge Joel Cohen asked that the NRA and the AG sit down and try to cobble together a plan for remediation of some aspects of the Association’s governance going forward. If they can’t agree on a workable plan, the judge will evaluate their various suggestions and devise a plan of his own. In the end, agreed-to plan or not, the final decision rests with the judge, and he expressed his intention to issue that decision within a couple of weeks.
Rather than try to offer a synopsis of the judge’s ruling, with my own editorial spin and possible errors, I’ve decided to provide you with the whole thing as accurately as possible. The only editorializing I will do is to “bold” highlight and bring attention to the judge’s words or sections I see as particularly important. As you read this, again, note that any added emphasis (BOLDING) is my doing, not the judge’s. Continue reading Judicial Verdict in NRA Trial: Accountability, Governance, & Future Implications