Fed Up NRA Supporters Withholding Support

By Ammoland

By interview by Jim Shepherd, this article first appeared on The Shooting Wire

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- It’s no secret this year’s National Rifle Associations’ Annual Meeting turned into a bare-knuckle brawl between Wayne LaPierre, his supporters, and detractors demanding a housecleaning of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. The brawl broke out after a series of highly unflattering, but well-documented reports spoke of long-term, systemic abuses under Mr. LaPierre’s long-running administration.

I was there, so I reported what I saw happening. It was a power struggle. And when the dust cleared, it was once again proven that you don’t win a title fight on the scorecard.

If you’re going to beat the champ, you have to knock the champ down- and, preferably, out.

That didn’t happen. Instead, the LaPierre camp staged its own housecleaning. Gone were the NRA President (Oliver North), the next-in-line (Richard Childress) and, ultimately, the second-in-command of the entire organization (NRA-ILA head Chris Cox).

And I wasn’t in the nearly nine-hour board of directors meeting, but I do know from those who were that it wasn’t pretty. And afterward, the BoD -which had contained more than a few very vocal …Read the Rest

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