Former NRA leader Wayne LaPierre addresses the group’s members in 2022.
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The jury’s verdict followed years of allegations that the gun group’s top official and other leaders were spending money meant to benefit its members on their own luxuries.
Wayne LaPierre led the NRA for more than three decades.
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Under his watch, congressional action toward gun control ground to a near halt that lasted for many years.
Former NRA Leader Wayne LaPierre arrives for his civil trial at New York State Supreme Court on Jan. 8, 2024, in New York City.
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The NRA’s new leaders have to make important decisions as they confront a shaky financial future.
Sometimes it just takes one naysayer to illuminate a problem everyone else is ignoring.
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A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the dangerous pull toward passivity and deference.
‘Sociology of Guns’ students during a gun range field trip.
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In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
The NBA suspended Ja Morant for 25 games after he posted a video of himself brandishing a gun.
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America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the civility and structure of America.
The gun group might be less sturdy than it appears.
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The National Rifle Association is spending heavily on legal fees and slashing programs for its members.
Ade Osadolor-Hernandez of Students Demand Action speaks at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol in May 2022.
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Congress tends to be most likely to act after an assassination or assassination attempt of historic proportions or mass shootings. But sometimes lawmakers do nothing beyond debate new measures.
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The firearms industry pressure group is expert in preventing any reform of America’s weak gun ownership laws. Here’s why.
NRA conventiongoers, like these at the gun group’s 2018 big meeting, browse firearms exhibits.
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The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
A Kenosha, Wisconsin, jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of murder on Nov. 19, 2021. His trial sparked a national debate over gun rights and self-defense.
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Spoiler alert: Stolen guns arm criminals, and limiting gun carrying outside the home reduces violent crime.
The National Rifle Association may soon get a major legal victory.
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America’s love-hate relationship with guns is reaching a new level.
Evidence of the gun group’s mismanagement under Wayne LaPierre’s leadership is mounting.
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The gun group violates four key legal and management principles, a scholar of nonprofits explains.
Litigation against the gun group, which had been on hold, may now proceed.
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Judge Harlin Hale found that the gun group wasn’t acting in ‘good faith’ when it filed for bankruptcy.
Facing legal and financial challenges, the NRA wants to exit New York.
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While declaring bankruptcy, the gun group confusingly said it was in great financial shape.
The suit alleges improprieties by Wayne LaPierre and other current and former NRA officials.
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NRA executives allegedly benefited personally from the improper use of its funds.
Imagery and talk of guns can often be thinly veiled forms of threats.
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks say they are targeting hate, but they’re overlooking a major source of hateful content: gun talk.
Demanding action.
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Polls show Americans want gun control, but it isn’t a top-line issue for voters.
The research doesn’t say what some lawmakers suggest every time there’s a mass shooting.
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On the whole, results from psychology research studies don’t support a direct connection between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior.
Attorney General of New York Letitia James has launched a probe of the NRA.
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More likely dangers include administrative hassles and fines.