NRA BOD voting - 2nd year of new leadership, will it change the NRA?

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I’ve posted previously on this subject int 2020, 21, 22 and 24. Your publication of record, American Hunter, American Rifleman or First Freedom if you are a life member (or higher) to the National Rifle Associated, will contain the bios of the 49 candidates running for one of those 28 seats on the NRA Board and your ballot to vote for 28 of them.

The Board of Directors (BOD) and their committee assigns are responsible to oversee the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Doug Hamlin a (contracted position) and the NRA President, Bob Bar. This oversight is what was lacking during LaPierre’s tenure. While some BOD members knew about the extravagances of the CEO, they failed at taking action.

How does the NRA CEO succeed at flying under the radar of the BOD? By installing a BOD that is friendly to the CEO. Yes men and women that either fear him or fear the ramifications to their NRA position by bringing egregious behavior of the CEO to the attention of the board, and doing so would be perceived as destructive to the organization

The method the previous NRA CEO used to install a friendly BOD is the NRA Nominating committee. The voting members of the NRA (you and me) do not spend a great deal of time investigating the candidates for the NRA board and take at face value, the recommendations of the NRA Nominating committee and the bios written by the candidate directors themselves.

The 2025 NRA nominating committee is comprised of Scott L. Bach (current board member), Charles R Beers III (current board member), Cyndi Flannigan, Duane Liptak (previous board member), Robert E Mansell and Jay Printz (current board member). Mr. Printz and Mr. Mansell were elected Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively, of the nominating committee.

Has the 2025 NRA nominating committee provided a selection of YES men and women?

Unknown, but the fact that Duane Liptak is a member gives an indication the nominating committee may not be promoting YES men and women. Mr. Liptak resigned from the board days before the NRA filed for bankruptcy with this statement “I am no longer able to effectively perform the duties of director with what I feel is the appropriate level of oversight.”

Unfortunately, a resolution adopted by the committee gives a concerning bit of language. “We the members of the NRA2024-2025 Nominating Committee gather with a clear and unified purpose to select qualified and constructive candidates for the 2025 election ballot…”

The constructive clause in the resolution is troubling. It could be interpreted that any director who raises concerns about CEO behavior, as being destructive to the association. Time will tell if the BOD will in fact perform its function or just be another group of yes men and women to squander the members contributions.

I have zero confidence in the recommendations of the NRA nominating committee and even less confidence in any BOD member who was present during the previous CEO’s flagrant mis-use of member’s dollars. If you were nominated by members petition, you have my vote. If your bio states you were recommended by the NRA nominating committee, I bypassed your bubble. If you are coy and stayed on the fence in your bio and didn’t state how you got on the list, I bypassed your bubble.
For the NRA members, executives and Directors reading this, know that thousands of dollars that would have gone to the NRA are now heading to FPC, GOA.

See you in Atlanta Saturday morning, 2025

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…and the Second Amendment Foundation.

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Thanks … I’m a life member there, but they do not do much in the way of communicating with members. I was not sure the 2nd Amendment foundation was still an ongoing entity.

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I’m going to use a term from USCCA on this one:
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.
Keep your eyes and ears open on the happenings.

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Have you checked your junk mail? I regularly receive updates.

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I have (do regularly) … I logged in to SAF.ORG and signed in to validate my account was still present. It is, so I signed up for the newsletter.

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Agree, but

have been at a members meeting where people approach the microphone and raise an issue with the running of the organization and be shouted down by members, having the microphone turned off by the President (person responsible for running the members meeting) and lastly and the most egregious, having a current Director, interrupt at the 2nd microphone, motion to adjourn, which is non-debatable, the President calling for a voice vote with yeas being the loudest, meeting adjourned.

No amount of situational awareness could prepare me for a corrupt cabal of both NRA executives and board members.

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As an organization, the NRA died on the altar of DC lobbyists who take the money of constituents/members and squander it for its officers’ enrichment and aggrandizement. Fool me once …

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@pm9dcr2001 I did not renew this year. After reviewing, and having gotten a regular onslaught of mailings and emails begging for money, came to the conclusion that whatever is living in their “swamp” still exists. Don’t know if it’s systems or people, but either way I cannot support that group.

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It’s how you reacted & delt with the happenings that mattered.
Another term by USCCA: DEESCALATE.
I Do understand your situation though.

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My feelings on the NRA are thus: Burn it down and build new. Nothing short of this has a chance of ending up with a useful organization.

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I don’t care what they do because they are just another political organization like the rest of them

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No need if funding stopped.

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I was up in the air on renewing my NRA membership, last 5 year renewal expires in May, but after reading how the acted like the GOA didn’t really call out the ATF a few weeks back regarding pistol braces, then tried to claim credit when the ATF acquiesced… I’m done… Last vote didn’t seem to change anything, still the same script.

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" Last vote didn’t seem to change anything" I have that concern. Atlanta will determine conclusively. I do have respect for Bob Barr (current President). He was my Rep. when I lived in Marietta, GA. I’m hopeful his ethics stayed with him.

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Same thing.

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