These flights included several trips to Palm Springs, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas. What the Hell Is Going on at Our Airports? [23] NY AG Files Amended Complaint against NRA, LaPierre, and Others, NRA Watch, August 16, 2021, para. Testimony from two other NRA leaders left several questions unanswered. MedFlight Freedom: Has not issued a comment. The company makes and sells semi-automatic rifles and pistols such as the M1A rifle and the M1911 pistol. Smith & Wesson, O.F. [16] Testimony of Wayne LaPierre In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, April 7, 2021, 130:18 131:2. [96] Cydney Hargis, NRAs Endorsement of High-Profile QAnon Candidates Is Not Its First Brush with the Conspiracy Theory, Media Matters for America, September 15, 2020, https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/nras-endorsement-high-profile-qanon-candidates-not-its-first-brush. I frequently call this man a coward. [103] Peter Stone, Exclusive: NRA Has Shed 200 Staffers This Year as Group Faces Financial Crisis, The Guardian, June 29, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/nra-financial-crisis-layoffs-furloughs. But Your Honor, we are safe, we are secure, we are a well-run organization. The company's majority 9 member board voted to censure their CEO, then laughably claimed that "politics is not part of our business". Activists have even created a Google Doc of the companies involved with the NRA, urging people to boycott their products. A. I destroyed them. Incomprehensible," Romney wrote. Medical Concierge Network's founder, Greg Nassief, told ThinkProgress the company had no comment on its NRA connections, only that it had similar ties "with several entities across all sorts of categories.". CARD NUMBER*. LaPierre admitted to charging the NRA for private jet travel, including flights for private vacations and trips to pick up his niece in Nebraska.21After public scrutiny about his use of private jets, LaPierre paid the NRA back nearly $300,000 in flight costsa fraction of the apparent total spent on private flightsas an excess benefit transaction.22 In total, the New York attorney general has alleged that the NRA paid over $10 million for LaPierres private charter flights during his time at the NRA.23. The entries included cost, dates, locations, and in some cases, passengers. The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) claims 4.5 million grassroots activists. Sirius airs a show from NRA TV called Cam & Co on its conservative Patriot station, where host Cam Edwards discusses current events in terms of how they might affect gun rights. Within weeks of the declaration of a pandemic, the NRA was back to the usual playbook: aggravating peoples sense of uncertainty and offering guns as a solution to their fears.66 The NRA warned that politicians were exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to deny you and your loved ones your fundamental right to self-defense and your Second Amendment rights . Late Monday, insurance provider Lockton Affinity announced that it will no longer partner with the NRA on its Carry Guard insurance. Why is that? The Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas will host NRA events during the groups annual convention in May. . Some people have been calling out specific comedians and actors who have shows on SiriusXM, encouraging them to put pressure on the satellite radio company to distance itself from the NRA. It doesn't have any branches in Arizona. Whether youre serving on the committee or attending with family and friends, youll meet committed citizens working together to protect our American freedoms. . The NRA has become synonymous with mismanagement, extremism, greed, and scandal. Excluding so many people from the process of deciding to file for bankruptcy, including the vast majority of the board of directors, the chief financial officer, and the general counsel, is nothing less than shocking), https://nrawatch.org/filing/court-dismisses-nra-bankruptcy-case. One notable exception is the Impulse Big Game rifle from Savage, a straight-pull bolt action that incorporates quite a few elements familiar to bolt-gunners into an entirely new rifle. [145] Julie Bykowicz and Mark Maremont, NRA to Aggressively Lobby against Gun Measures, Despite Its Financial Woes, Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2021, www.wsj.com/articles/nra-to-aggressively-lobby-against-gun-measures-despite-its-financial-woes-11616940001. This list of United States congressional candidates who received campaign money from the National Rifle Association of America is from the nonpartisan group OpenSecrets which extracts campaign contribution data from the Federal Election Commission. [135] Garrett OLeary, Freedom Hangs in the Balance in Georgia, Americas 1st Freedom, NRA, January 5, 2021,www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2021/1/5/freedom-hangs-in-the-balance-in-georgia; Jason Ouimet, Second Amendment Rests on Georgia Senate Runoffs, Americas First Freedom, NRA, December 26, 2020,https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2020/12/26/second-amendment-rests-on-georgia-senate-runoffs. The NRA Business Alliance maintains a directory of local businesses that support the group. Also note the services and social media companies, such as Airbnb, DoorDash, Eventbrite, Lyft, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter, Uber, and Yelp. .css-gk9meg{display:block;font-family:Lausanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;padding-top:0.25rem;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-gk9meg:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.15;margin-bottom:0.25rem;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0.625rem;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 73.75rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.2;}}Republican Senators Form Wingnut Xylophone, How to Line Your Pockets While Reshaping the Court, SCOTUS Ponders Whether to Dub Loans Unforgiven, Effort to Recall N.O. Mossberg & Sons, and Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. show support as 2020 Defender Level Sponsors. The companies which have caved to the public pressure of websites like ThinkProgress are: Alamo Rental Cars Allied Van Lines Avis Rental Cars Budget Rental Cars Chubb (they underwrote carry insurance for gun owners) Delta Airlines Enterprise Rental Cars First National Bank of Omaha Hertz Rental Cars LifeLock Ted Cruz, who is due to appear at an NRA meeting in Houston over the weekend, just days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, has received more than $175,000 from the group. [51] Danny Hakim and Mary Williams Walsh, The NRA Wants to Dump Its Regulators via Bankruptcy. Tax issues also continue to haunt the NRA. Any inquiries should be directed to [emailprotected]. [7] Motion by NRA board member Phillip Journey, February 8, 2021, https://nrawatch.org/filing/in-yet-another-blow-to-the-nra-board-member-seeks-examiner-to-investigate-nra-during-bankruptcy. Ted Cruz comes in at #26 with $176,274 in NRA donations, followed by John Cornyn at #35 with $78,945. at paras. Newsweek has reached out to Romney, Burr and Blunt, as well as a number of other senators on this list for comment. "These associations greatly benefit our customers by buying discounted rooms from groups that might otherwise be charged a penalty by hotels for not using all of the rooms in their block.". The NRA Publications Division announced last year that Dennis Reese, CEO/owner of Springfield Armory, would be the 2021 Golden Bullseye Awards Pioneer recipient. The list was created in 2014 with just 53 companies they added Dick's Sporting Goods this year after their anti-Second Amendment stunt, which is an odd move for a sporting goods store. v. National Rifle Association, No: 3:19-cv-00679, Middle District of Tennessee (Judge Campbell). All the attention prompted the gun-rights group to break from its usual strategy of keeping quiet after mass gun deaths. In a written decision issued on May 11, federal bankruptcy judge Harlin Hale dismissed the NRAs Chapter 11 filing for not being filed in good faith, holding that the NRA is using this bankruptcy case to address a regulatory enforcement problem, not a financial one.52 The judge also wrote, There are several aspects of this case that still trouble the Court, and said there were cringeworthy facts during this trial, something the NRAs counsel acknowledged. She testified that, without formal approval, she added a 10 percent fee on all travel booked for the NRA.24 According to the New York attorney general, the NRA paid Stanford more than $13.5 million, in aggregate, between August 2014 and January 2020, of which one could estimate personal fees to Stanford of over $1 million.25 In deposition testimony played in court, Stanford said that LaPierre had occasionally instructed her how to word invoices for his travel, including invoices that omitted flight details about trips to Nebraska, where his niece lives, and the Bahamas.26. Another bombshell from the NRA bankruptcy trial came when it was revealed that NRA board president Carolyn Meadows had acknowledged that in the early part of 2019, she destroyed notes; when asked at a pretrial deposition why she did this, Meadows testified that she was told they could be subpoenaed and used.42 Meadows testified that she shredded some of the documents, while other documents she actually burned.43 While the evidence was not available at trial (nor will it be at future trials), questions remain about what was in those notes. National Association for Gun Rights. In fact, those discounts are some of the selling points for people to sign up with the NRA. See more outside spending by National Rifle Assn. [94] Shooters Grill: The Safest Restaurant in America?, Americas 1st Freedom, August 19, 2015, https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2015/8/19/first-things-first/shooters-grill-the-safest-restaurant-in-america. [92] Eric Hananoki, On Facebook in 2018, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorsed Conspiracy Theories That 9/11 Was an Inside Job, and That Sandy Hook Was Staged, Media Matters for America, January 21, 2021, https://www.mediamatters.org/false-flag-conspiracy-theory/facebook-2018-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsed-conspiracy-theories. According to AGIA's website, the organization has "served as the insurance and member benefits marketing and administration partner to some of the largest and most iconic associations and organizations in the country," including the NRA. National Rifle Association members, who pay annual dues, are eligible for discounts at a variety of companies, from hotels to insurance firms. Most recently, Albertsons Companies, ALDI, CVS, Kroger, Meijer, Publix, Subway, Walgreens, Walmart and Wegmans also took a stand for the safety of their customers and announced open carry prohibitions in their stores. [58] David DellAquila et al. In its Chapter 11 filing, the NRA spent millions on legal fees only to get. James is. During the course of the NRAs failed bankruptcy, the Internal Revenue Service alleged that the NRA owed the government more than $3.4 million.62 About $1.4 million of that sum relates to undisclosed excise taxes and related interest that the NRA failed to pay between 2014 and 2018. [54] Mark Maremont, NRA Ad Firm Seeks to End Contract, Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/nra-ad-firm-seeks-to-end-contract-with-gun-group-11559145765. In less than two weeks, consumers have convinced more than 20 companies to end relationships with a gun lobby that has encouraged the proliferation of assault weapons and aggressively blocked virtually all legislation to curb gun violence. And did Mr. Phillips provide any consulting services to your department in 2019? Since this story was published, a number of companies have ended ties with the NRA including Allied Van Lines and NorthAmerican Van Lines, American National Insurance Company, Checks in the Mail, Hertz, Paramount RX, Securian Life Insurance Company, Starkey Hearing Technologies, and Toco Warranty, among others. It appears any type of business can apply to be included in the directory the White Oak Grille in Coatesville, Missouri, for example, claims a spot. At trial, LaPierre explained that the NRA paid for his personal travel agent, Gayle Stanford, with whom he would book trips and private flights. Amazon hasn't released a statement regarding the matter yet. [63] Mark Maremont and Aruna Viswanatha, IRS Investigating NRAs Wayne LaPierre for Possible Tax Fraud, Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-investigating-nras-wayne-lapierre-for-possible-tax-fraud-11601923467. The public learned that virtually no one at the NRAother than NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and his three closest board alliesknew about the planned bankruptcy filing, which is consistent with testimony that the organization was run as Waynes kingdom, where he employed what he himself reportedly called management by chaos. The trial included new information about LaPierres luxurious life on the company dime, including over $13 million for travel and a postemployment golden parachute worth $17 million.2 In addition, LaPierre was forced to testify about his annual weeklong trips to the Bahamas, where he stayed on one of two yachts owned by a Hollywood producer who is a stakeholder of key NRA vendors. Here are the companies that support the NRA still, despite what feels like an uptick in mass shootings over the past several years. All Rights Reserved. The credit card processing company has yet to release a statement regarding its relationship with the NRA. In addition to these companies, there are many other local organizations that support the NRA, and you can find a full directory of them on the group's site. That organization in 2016 was at its pinnacle, and perhaps the most powerful political organization in the United States at the time. [105] National Rifle Association, 2019 IRS Form 990, Part I, Line 5, November 18, 2020, https://nrawatch.org/filing/nra-2019-irs-form-990. In doing so, the gun lobby has amplified radicalizing messaging to new and broader audiences. The company is owned by the family of former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam, and family members contributed a total of over $1.2 million to the NRCC, NRSC, and CLF. The NRA and its sister 501(c)(3) organization, the NRA Foundation, also suffered an initial loss in the case brought against it by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. $18,190. Straight-Pull Savage. Global Rescue, a provider of field rescue and evacuation services, continues to work with the NRA and hasn't released a statement on the matter. Facing pressure from consumers, the First National Bank of Omaha said last week it would stop issuing NRA-branded Visa credit cards after its contract with the group expires. [6] Testimony of Tony Makris In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, April 16, 2021, 108:14 109:9. NRA supporters at the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day convention on March 7, 2012. Fact check after fact check has debunked conspiracy theories about the supposed inflation of the number of deaths from COVID-19.70 In May 2020, NRA board member and former president Marion Hammer complained that publishing the cumulative number of COVID-19 patients in a Florida county without publishing the current number of active cases is deliberately deceptive.71 Even in December 2020, the NRA published a piece on its website claiming that the number of deaths from COVID-19 had been inflated by public health officials, a claim it then used to cast aspersions on public health statistics regarding gun deaths.72 The day the piece went up on the NRAs website, 2,668 people in the United States died from COVID-19.73, NRA board members reacted to the pandemic by rushing headlong into racist remarks, dismissals, and conspiracy theories. [125] The amount of revenue from member dues from the three years (2017 through 2019) reported in the two annual public consolidated financial reports that have been made public (2018 and 2019) match the amount of revenue from member dues reported in the respective annual IRS Form 990s. ", Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, tweeted in response to Romney: "Grief does not overwhelm the soul nearly as much as $13M from the NRA overwhelms your bank account. [3] Trial testimony of Owen Mills In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, April 20, 2021, 21:4. According to ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum, Fedex has received thousands of complaints from customers about its relationship with the NRA, but hasn't responded to them. Am I reading that correctly? The NRA occupies an interesting place in the debate about guns in the United States. Below are the roughly 200 businesses that made the list: 20/20 Vision A&M Records AlleyCorp Alphabet, Inc. Amalgamated Bank Ambition AMC Theatres AOL / Time Warner Ariel Investments LLC Artsy. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms launched an initiative last year aimed at providing information to Second Amendment-loving Americans. [107] Lisa Marie Pane, NRA Cutting Staff and Salaries amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Associated Press, May 3, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/gun-politics-virus-outbreak-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-aac4b1a0fbe31665721393176b484d15. FFLBizHub.com, a platform that helps individuals and organizations "learn and comply with Federal ATF and State firearm laws," according to its site, is still working with the NRA following the Parkland shooting and benefits from being part of the NRA business alliance. American freedoms lobby Day convention on March 7, 2021, https: //nrawatch.org/filing/in-yet-another-blow-to-the-nra-board-member-seeks-examiner-to-investigate-nra-during-bankruptcy what feels like an uptick mass. 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