NOTE:
The $600 Life Membership offer has been extended to April 20!

The NRA Board of Directors has initiated a Life Member Recruiting Challenge, offering Life Memberships for only $600 for a limited time.

The Life Membership offer is only good until March 17 April 20, and is only available from sitting Directors, so you must act fast using the form below.

Print the form linked below (as many as you like), fill it out, and mail it, along with a check(s) or credit card information, to the address on the bottom of the form.  (Each form can accommodate multiple requests.)

2025LifeMemberChallenge

Be sure my name, Jeff Knox, is up at the top as the sponsoring Director, and feel free to share it with anyone interested.

It’s sort of a competition between Directors, so I appreciate your help with sharing and spreading the word.

Please get your completed form and payment to the address listed by March 17 April 20 to qualify.

This won’t make you eligible to vote this year, that deadline has already passed, but it will make you eligible next year and forever after.

We’re making big changes in the NRA and now’s the time to get on board as a Life Member.

Also, NRA has just announced deep discounts on Annual Memberships at only $18.71 per year.  This offer is good until April 20 at this link:  https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR047188

Thanks — Jeff

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We haven’t been able to find detailed reports beyond June of 2022, but here are the AAM audited reports for July – December, 2018 and the reports for January – June 2022.

NRA Media 2018
NRA Media 2022

We did find circulation numbers for NRA’s flagship publication, American Rifleman, for September 2022, which was 1,345,499.
That’s down from 1,924,696 in July, 2018, a decline of over 30%.

The following are the two resolutions submitted by Jeff Knox to the membership of the National Rifle Association at their Annual Meeting of Members in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 15, 2023.
Both of these resolutions were defeated by a majority of the members voting in the meeting.
For background information and documentation of the statements in these resolutions, type “NRA” in the Search Bar in the upper-right of the Home screen. Continue reading Knox Resolutions: NRA 2023 →

In preparation for the trial in the New York AG’s suit against NRA and Wayne LaPierre, which is finally supposed to begin this Fall, the AG’s office hired two experts on nonprofit organizations to examine the available evidence and present reports.

One Report is by an expert in nonprofit governance matters, while the other is from an expert who specializes in forensic accounting.  Both reports are scathing indictments of Wayne LaPierre and other executives, as well as the Board of Directors and particularly the Audit Committee, which was supposed to identify problems like improper contracting, excessive expenses, and conflicts of interest.

Here’s the report of the Forensic Auditor:
NYNonprofitExpertRpt_Act

The other expert report is a huge PDF file that’s too big to post here, but here’s a link to it on the court’s website:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=/5jF0fIlN9Y8JJJ1c4e90w==

It’s worth noting that NRA President Charles Cotton has been the Chairman of the Audit Committee for many years, and Second Vice President David Coy, who has been Cotton’s Vice Chair on the Audit Committee, was the Chair of that committee prior to Cotton.  Between them, they’ve been in control of the Audit Committee for over two decades, and both continue in that capacity, in spite of becoming officers of the Association.

The experts’ reports are both long and detailed, and both are well worth reading, but you might want to be sure to wear a hat and take a couple of wraps of Duck Tape first, to keep your head from exploding.  Some of what they reveal is truly astounding.

IRS Form 990 is required to be filed and publicly disclosed by nonprofits.  It provides a useful look into an organization’s finances.  The form changes some from year to year, so it can be confusing when making comparisons, but most of the same information is included each year, you just have to find it.

A couple of the files are split into two parts due to excessive size.

NRA_2021-990-Part_1 & NRA_2021-990-Part_2 Continue reading NRA’s IRS Filings, Form 990 →