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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former NRA President Col. Oliver North.
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The group’s bottom line has been shaky for years. And its board has been unwilling or unable to respond.
Samuel Zeif, an 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., cries after speaking during a listening session with President Donald Trump in Washington on Feb. 21, 2018.
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What are we to make of a society in which young children have a greater sense of moral courage and social responsibility than the zombie adults who make the laws that fail to protect them?