{"id":16,"date":"2019-08-03T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/08\/03\/no-adam-kraut-on-nra-board\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:30:42","slug":"no-adam-kraut-on-nra-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"No Adam Kraut On The NRA Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5914,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/three-nra-directors-resign-effective.html&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;:5915,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/static1.squarespace.com\\\/static\\\/579a2f5d893fc059a1159624\\\/t\\\/5d44b590c5e7700001b882f3\\\/1564784016445\\\/NRA+Open+Letter+Final.pdf&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>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/three-nra-directors-resign-effective.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When I reported<\/a> that Tim Knight, Sean Maloney, and Esther Schneider resigned from the Board of Directors I mentioned that it would put Adam Kraut in line to fill their positions. I also reported a comment from Rob Pincus to the effect that Adam wouldn&#8217;t take the seat under the current circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>From an open letter posted by Adam it looks like the NRA did follow procedure and reached out to him about serving. He declined. I have posted his letter below.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue that surfaced today is that the NRA will no longer have Directors and Officers liability insurance for the Board of Directors. I have heard it from four different sources. As I understand it, the new premium given all the turmoil and the multiple investigations was so high that the decision was to go without insurance. I am going to speculate that you may start to see more resignations from the board due to this. I know if I was the attorney for one of the well-heeled celebrities or well-to-do business people on the board that I&#8217;d advise to give it strong consideration as a matter of risk management.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/579a2f5d893fc059a1159624\/t\/5d44b590c5e7700001b882f3\/1564784016445\/NRA+Open+Letter+Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter <\/a>from Adam explaining his decision is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>August 2, 2019<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>In 2016, I began a campaign to run for the NRA Board of Directors by petition of the members.<br \/>\nThe idea to run for the Board started with a conversation between myself and two Board<br \/>\nMembers at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg that February. Those two Board<br \/>\nMembers were amongst those who recently resigned. After many phone calls, questions, and a<br \/>\nlot of thought, I decided the pursue a seat, in the hopes that I would be able to lend some new<br \/>\nideas and a different take on issues of the Organization.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Much to my surprise, my well-documented (and freely available) ideas and proposals met severe<br \/>\ninstitutional resistance. In spite of that, this past year, I hesitantly pursued a seat again, for a third<br \/>\ntime, at the encouragement of friends and many NRA members who believed that I could add<br \/>\nvalue to the Organization. Once I received the results of the mail ballot, I opted to not pursue the<br \/>\n76th Seat at the NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, as I had done the two years prior. While I<br \/>\ngave my best efforts over the past three years\u2019 election cycles, I respect and have accepted the<br \/>\nchoice of the voting members.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>After the learning that I was not elected to the Board during this year\u2019s election and coming to<br \/>\nunderstand that my role would have been reduced to simply \u2018filling a chair\u2019 even were I to have<br \/>\nbeen elected, I began to focus my time and energy on other exciting opportunities to accomplish<br \/>\nmy genuine personal desire and goal to advance the Second Amendment, individual liberty<br \/>\ngenerally, and continuing to help educate and inform gun owners about important issues and<br \/>\nchallenges.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Between the time I began to collect petition signatures in 2018 and the election results being<br \/>\nreturned this year, news about the NRA began to emerge from a variety of sources. Since these<br \/>\nclaims and allegations have been the focus of much discussion within the firearms and Second<br \/>\nAmendment community for the past several months, I need not recount them here.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Based on my review and understanding of the by-laws, the recent resignations of the three<br \/>\ndirectors would potentially allow me to serve until the adjournment of the next Annual Meeting<br \/>\nin Nashville, Tennessee. Just prior to the release of this statement, I was contacted by the NRA<br \/>\nand informed that there was a vacancy on the Board which I would be able to fill. Prior to<br \/>\nreceiving the phone call, I devoted time to consider the possibility of accepting the position,<br \/>\nbased on the news that three directors had resigned and my understanding of the by-laws.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>After careful thought and consideration, and because of the magnitude of time, work, and<br \/>\nattention these exciting and important new endeavors that I am currently involved in require, it<br \/>\nwould not be possible for me to provide the NRA Board of Directors, the Organization, and the<br \/>\nMembers with the significant time, work, and attention a board of directors role \u2013 especially in<br \/>\nthe current climate \u2013 would require. Further, I am not willing to put the NRA into a position<br \/>\nwhere my new position and role in our community could even potentially create a conflict, or<br \/>\neven a bad optical light that could be leveraged against it by the media and its enemies. Thus, I<br \/>\ncannot in good conscience accept a position as an NRA director.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>It has been my honor to have your support these past few years. It is humbling to know that so<br \/>\nmany share my passion for liberty and supported my proposals to improve our NRA. And I<br \/>\nsincerely hope that the Board and the Executive staff of the NRA will do what is right and<br \/>\nnecessary to create a healthy, strong, and positive force for our rights.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>I am excited to support the NRA\u2019s good work, and that of many others, from my new position<br \/>\nthrough coalition building, hard work, thoughtful strategy, and undertaking those efforts that<br \/>\nwill, I hope, result in a more free America and restored Republic. I am eager to continue<br \/>\npromoting the advancement of liberty and hope that you\u2019ll continue to join me in doing do.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Yours in Liberty,<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>\/s\/Adam Kraut<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I reported that Tim Knight, Sean Maloney, and Esther Schneider resigned from the Board of Directors I mentioned&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,10,12],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019-nra-board-election","tag-adam-kraut","tag-nra-board-of-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11924,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/11924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}