Former CEO of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, has finally admitted virtually everything that he’s been accused of over the past five years, and a jury has found him liable for padding his own pockets to the tune of $5.5 million.

LaPierre’s hand-picked Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, Woody Phillips was also found liable for $2 million in personal profit at NRA members’ expense, and the NRA itself (really the NRA’s current Board of Directors) was found to have failed in its fiduciary obligations to shepherd and safeguard the members’ assets. Keep in mind that none of this really takes into account the millions paid to “consultants” with nothing of substance to show for it, or the hundreds of millions spent on lawyers and the losses in membership and revenue over the past five years.

All told, the bogus spending and lost income amount to something north of a billion dollars!

Now, New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen has the difficult task of deciding how best to remedy the situation. Unfortunately, there’s an important absence in Justice Cohen’s courtroom: the members of the NRA! Continue reading Former NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Has Cost the Gun Rights Movement North Of A Billion Dollars →

Four candidates dedicated to reforming the troubled NRA will be on the ballot for election to the NRA Board of Directors this year. Judge Phil Journey, Rocky Marshall, Dennis Fusaro, and me, Jeff Knox, all qualified for the ballot by petition of the members.

We are encouraging people to vote for only these four and no one else. This is called “Bullet Voting” and gives your votes more weight, increasing the odds of us winning seats.

Ballots are supposed to be in the March issue of NRA magazines for those members eligible to vote.

Winning a Board seat without the support of the current regime at the NRA is historically close to impossible.

Continue reading NRA Board Elections: Support the Four for Reform Candidates →

Gun activist Jeff Knox explains the process and purpose of NRA Board Bullet Voting.

As various National Rifle Association magazines containing ballots for the NRA Board of Directors Election begin arriving in people’s mailboxes in mid to late February (if you get a ballot, you’re eligible to vote; if you don’t, you probably aren’t).

There’s a lot of talk about the value of one vote, and the mechanics of the NRA ballot. I won’t discuss who is the best candidate but how to make sure your vote is as effective as possible in support of your favorite candidates for the board.

Voting in NRA elections is weighted.  Each voter has, in essence, 25 votes (sometimes a few more, if there are seats that were vacated during the term), but you can still give only one to any given candidate.  Using all 25+ votes lessens the value of each vote somewhat.  Voting for only a few candidates increases the impact of those few votes.  Let me explain.

Continue reading NRA Board Bullet Voting , What is it? Why Do It On Your NRA Member Ballot →

With Wayne LaPierre’s announced resignation as Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Rifle Association at the end of the month, the NRA Board of Directors has an opportunity to reverse course and revive the flailing organization.

Instead, there’s a move afoot, to keep the lunatics in charge of the asylum by replacing LaPierre with the one person on the Board who has done the most to enable LaPierre’s corruption and to protect him for the past several years –NRA President Charles Cotton.

Cotton is a Texas attorney who has served as the NRA’s Audit Committee Chairman for over the past decade. The Audit Committee is an incredibly important committee of the Board of Directors responsible for ensuring that the Association stays on the straight and narrow in all of its dealings. Along with working with outside auditors to ensure the Association’s books are in order, the Committee is responsible for reviewing all contracts, investigating all potential conflicts of interest, dealing with all whistle-blower complaints, and ensuring that the organization operates according to applicable laws and Association policies. In other words, the Audit Committee is supposed to be the watchdog that guards the NRA’s money and reputation. Continue reading Charles Cotton Must Never Be Allowed to Head the NRA! →

The second week of testimony in the New York trial of NRA, CEO Wayne LaPierre, Secretary and General Counsel John Frazer, and former Treasurer Woody Phillips wrapped up on Friday, January 19, 2024, and things are not looking good for the defendants. A fourth former executive, LaPierre’s former deputy Josh Powell, pled guilty days before the trial began.

Also, just days before the trial, LaPierre announced his resignation, effective at the end of January 2024, at an NRA Board of Directors meeting. Many spectators and even some participants have missed the delayed effect. He’s still technically in charge and, presumably, still having his legal bills covered by NRA members’ money.

In his resignation announcement, LaPierre said he was stepping down for health reasons. He is reported to be suffering from the debilitating effects of chronic Lyme Disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection that can cause a variety of serious health problems. Having struggled with Lyme Disease myself and had people close to me affected by the chronic form of the infection, I won’t join in the chorus that has suggested the whole thing is some ruse on LaPierre’s part. Continue reading Wayne LaPierre’s Brain is Shrinking, Yet He’s Still In Charge of NRA! …Why? →

Wayne LaPierre, longtime Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Rifle Association, announced his retirement today, citing “health reasons.”

LaPierre’s departure from the organization is scheduled for the end of January and surprised casual NRA members and outside observers. However, I had speculated that LaPierre might try to step out of the Association rather than wait to be forced out by a judge.

The question now is, how this might impact the NRA’s position in the trial that’s scheduled to start Monday in New York. Read my article posted yesterday for more background on the trial.

Having LaPierre out of office probably helps the NRA’s overall case somewhat, but it won’t get the NRA insiders and longtime Board members off the hook.

Continue reading Wayne LaPierre Resigning from National Rifle Association …Now What? →

Jury selection has begun for the trial between the NRA and the state of New York.

Not the one where the NRA is suing New York officials for encroaching on the Association’s First Amendment rights by using their regulatory authority to threaten and coerce banking, financial, and insurance companies to refrain from doing business with the NRA. That case has already been lost twice, once in the District Court and again in the Appeals Court, but it is on the docket to be heard by the US Supreme Court in the near future.

It’s an important case, and the NRA is absolutely on the right side of that one, and deserves to win.

The case I’m talking about is New York Attorney General Letitia James’ suit against the NRA and four of its current and former executives for misuse of charitable funds, self-dealing, cronyism, and nepotism.

Unfortunately, the NRA is on the wrong side of this one.

Continue reading The National Rifle Association is Heading to Court, One Way or Another →

Tombstone, Arizona – Elections for the NRA Board of Directors will be conducted early next year, and four self-identified reform candidates will be on the ballot.

Judge Phil Journey, Rocky Marshall, Dennis Fusaro, and [myself] Jeff Knox have all secured enough petition signatures from NRA Voting Members to have our names on the ballot in the 2024 Director Election, along with the 25 incumbents and three additional candidates that were nominated by the NRA Nominating Committee.

That means NRA members will have a total of 32 candidates vying for 25 three-year seats on the NRA Board, with the remaining candidates eligible to run for the one-year, 76th Director seat, which will be voted on by members in attendance at the NRA’s Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Dallas in May.

Each year, NRA members are asked to vote on one-third of the three-year seats on the Association’s ridiculously oversized NRA Board of Directors. In total, 76 Directors serve on the Board, with 75 of those serving staggered, three-year terms, meaning 25 come up for election each year in the mail-balloting, along with any seats that might have been vacated during the previous year.

As the Nominating Committee slate indicates, the NRA tends to keep the same group of people on the Board for extended periods of time – as long as they don’t make waves. Continue reading 4 Outsider Reform Candidates Nominated by NRA Members, LFG! →