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A New York jury found Wayne LaPierre misspent millions of dollars of the group’s charitable funds The National Rifle Association and its ex-CEO Wayne LaPierre were found liable for misspending millions of dollars on lavish perks. A New York Jury on Friday found that LaPierre, who steered the NRA for three decades, used charitable funds to pay for exotic vacations, excursions on private jets, and superyachts, and ordered him to pay back $5.4 million, minus what he had already reimbursed the…

Billing himself as “the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House,” Donald Trump addressed National Rifle Association members for the eighth time in his political career on Friday night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — appearing as the keynote speaker of the NRA Presidential Forum, part of the gun group’s Great American Outdoor Show. Trump began his address by making promises directly to gun owners. “When I’m back in the Oval Office no one will lay a finger on your firearms,” Trump said. He then…

Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has announced that he will resign from the organization days before the organization is scheduled to stand trial on civil corruption charges in New York. “The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced today that Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced he is stepping down from his position as chief executive of the organization, effective January 31. Long-time NRA executive and Head of General Operations Andrew Arulanandam will become…

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters While the public knows the National Rifle Association chiefly as a lobbying and campaign juggernaut, the Internal Revenue Service classifies the group as a “social welfare organization” whose firearms training, recreational shooting, and hunting programs support the common good. A partner nonprofit, the NRA Foundation, awards grants to law enforcement, gun clubs, and school shooting…

A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost from new products like its SFAR — a “small-frame auto-loading rifle,” chambered to fire devastating, high-caliber bullets. The firearms press is enamored with this new assault rifle, touting it as “easy to…

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —  The first sign that he was coming was the squeal from a middle-aged woman sitting across the aisle in skintight red, white and blue pants and “U.S.A.” earrings. Like thousands of others who had waited hours in line for a seat at the National Rifle Assn.’s annual Leadership Forum on Friday, she was craning her neck toward the stage as the syrupy lyrics of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” blared through speakers. Then he appeared and told them exactly what they wanted to hear.“With me at 1600…

A video recording of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plays during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention on May 27, 2022 in Houston, Texas. The annual event came days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and 2 adults dead.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)A legal watchdog group has filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, and its embattled attorney general, Ken Paxton, of trying to conceal records of any discussions their offices may have had with gun advocacy…

Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff is not known for staying quiet on the most pressing issues of the day.Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images)A solid number of San Francisco employees for company management software developer Salesforce say it’s time for their company to tell the National Rifle Association to go stick their muzzle where the sun don’t shine.In a letter first reported by SFGate, employees cited the gun-loving advocacy group’s penchant for using online marketing campaigns after major shooting events like the…

The National Rifle Association’s Grand Ole Night of Freedom Concert was cancelled after six of its performers pulled out following the Texas school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Country singer Jacob Bryant was the last performer to play at the event, and he tweeted on Friday that the “show was canceled yesterday.” Similarly, NRA president Charles Cotton told members “We had to cancel that” during the NRA Annual Meeting of Members on Saturday, per Rolling Stone.There has been no official statement…

Editor’s Note (5/25/22): This article is being republished in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that killed at least 19 children and two teachers. It was the deadliest such attack since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, and occurred less than two weeks after a deadly shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 10 Black people in an act of domestic terrorism. After the massacre this week in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that state’s attorney general told Fox News gun control…