NRA lawsuit

NRA Drops Federal Court Counterclaim Suit, Will Battle New York AG in State Court

By Michael R. Sisak, AP The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit accusing New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility, opting to challenge her through…

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The National Rifle Association: A Case Study in How Not to Operate a Non-Profit

By Elizabeth Schmidt, University of Massachusetts Amherst The National Rifle Association keeps getting itself into trouble by flouting the best practices all nonprofits should follow. As I often explain to college and graduate students who…



Laundering Expenses Through Ackerman McQueen Could Mean More Legal Jeopardy for NRA Officers

Dan Z for TTAG The problematic pass-through arrangement [former Treasurer and CFO, Wilson “Woody”] Phillips is said to have devised involved a public relations company called Ackerman McQueen and one of its subsidiaries, the Mercury…


Laundering Expenses Through Ackerman McQueen Could Mean More Legal Jeopardy for NRA Officers

Dan Z for TTAG The problematic pass-through arrangement [former Treasurer and CFO, Wilson “Woody”] Phillips is said to have devised involved a public relations company called Ackerman McQueen and one of its subsidiaries, the Mercury…


Dell’Aquila: NRA Needs to Dissolve in New York, Write a Big Check, and Re-Charter in Texas

Courtesy NRA David Dell’Aquila is the National Rifle Association megadonor who who became disillusioned with the Association the more he found out about how it operates. He then began a dissident movement to withhold planned…


NAGR’s Brown: The NRA Has Been AWOL from the Second Amendment Fight for Decades

Dudley Brown (courtesy NAGR) While [The National Association for Gun Rights’ Dudley] Brown thinks that the lawsuit is a “convenient” political persecution and said his organization doesn’t take any delight in James’ prosecution, the gun…