{"id":102,"date":"2019-05-10T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/05\/10\/a-great-summation-of-nras-problems\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:30:11","slug":"a-great-summation-of-nras-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"A Great Summation Of The NRA&#8217;s Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6203,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.battleswarmblog.com\\\/?p=40056&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6204,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/09\\\/independent-auditing&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6205,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Big_Four_accounting_firms&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nLawrence Person in his Battleswarm Blog does a great job in providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=40056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a summation of the issues facing the NRA<\/a>. I think it is a must read. In full disclosure he does quote me in his post but don&#8217;t hold that against him!<\/p>\n<p>As to getting its house in order, he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>There are some that claim cleaning up the NRA would offer too much succor to the gun-grabbers. But the organizational dysfunction and self-dealing is already out in the open, and is already hurting the NRA\u2019s effectiveness (and has been for several years). If not now, when? Better to do it now, the year before an Presidential election, with Republicans holding the White House and the Senate able to block gun-grabbing initiatives, than during it.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Other than being a member, I am very far indeed from the center of NRA power. For all the grumbling over the NRA caving over bump-stocks, there\u2019s no other organization with the size, scope and political power of the NRA to protect Second Amendment rights in America. But to do that, the NRA has to be on solid organizational and financial footing, and right now it does not appear to be on either. The NRA has to get its own house in order, this year, or expect forces hostile to it and its goals to do it for them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2019\/05\/09\/independent-auditing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebastian at Shall Not Be Questioned also links to this blog post<\/a>. He endorses the idea of an independent outside audit team from one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Four_accounting_firms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Four accounting firms<\/a> to come in and do an audit. He is a bit skeptical that it will happen and that even if it does happen then the results will be kept internally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>But just because its sensible doesn\u2019t mean it will happen. I\u2019ve seen a lot of sensible things fall by the wayside in a non-profit and we don\u2019t have to deal with paid staff who also have opinions, and have a lot more time and incentive to manipulate things to come out in their favor. I\u2019m not holding my breath. Even if it does happen, it\u2019ll probably be kept internal.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope he is wrong in his skepticism but he has always had a better feel for the inner workings in Fairfax than most anyone else not named Knox.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Person in his Battleswarm Blog does a great job in providing a summation of the issues facing the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,252,253,26,254],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-auditors","tag-battleswarm-blog","tag-lawrence-person","tag-nra","tag-nra-organizational-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11796,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}