by Today marks a red letter day for transparency at the NRA. Governance materials including three years of Form 990s, the up-to-date NRA Bylaws, NRA Committee responsibilities, and NRA Board minutes going back to 2022 are now available for all members to see online.
The announcement to the Board:
Dear Board and Executive Council members:
I’m pleased to report that in response to the resolution passed at the September meeting, governance materials (including meeting minutes, Forms 990, and the Bylaws) have been posted to the member self-service website.
These items are now available to registered members at https://www.nramemberservices.org/. (Once you’ve signed in, go to the menu on the left and scroll down to “Governance Information.”)
Many thanks to April Miller in my office, and Gary Dent and Don Zimmer in Information Services, for their hard work in making this happen.
Sincerely,
John Frazer
Getting these materials online has been something of a personal mission for me. I offered the resolution at the 2025 Meeting of Members that was passed thanks to the votes of virtually all who attended. As I noted at the time, my resolution was the rare resolution that went directly to the Board and not to one of its committees. It was worded as a “request” and not an “order”.
The Board approved my resolution at our September meeting to direct the EVP to put these materials online. It was decided to table the live streaming of Board meetings due to the cost of approximately $15,000. The Secretary’s Office was a great help in wording and formatting the final resolution.
I see this as not only a win for transparency but a win for the members who for too long were treated like mushrooms. In other words, they were kept in the dark.
Thank you for getting this done. I only wish it could have been done much earlier and with fewer games on the internal side, but appreciate that it is done. You deserve big credit for staying on top of it. Thank you.
Great job John. From now on, when something good happens, I will automatically blame you.
Best Wishes, Mark Shuell.
Made my first donation in years. Keep it up.
I’m wondering about the cost of streaming meetings. A Zoom subscription that allows up to 1,000 participants is $1,500 a year. I’m assuming that the intent of the streaming meetings is not to allow participation, which means that all you really need is a Youtube or Rumble account. These are free to a certain extent, although it would require someone knowledgeable to set up the cameras and microphones to best effect. Youtube would probably figure out a way to dump the stream pretty quickly given their political leanings, but Rumble wouldn’t, and a relatively inexpensive paid account would allow for more options.
This is absolutely not the major cost of live streaming a meeting with proper audio.
Honestly, if NRA managed to get a quote of livestreaming down to just $15,000, I’m really impressed.