{"id":34035,"date":"2024-02-06T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34035"},"modified":"2024-02-07T00:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T00:24:23","slug":"nra-board-member-herb-lanford-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34035","title":{"rendered":"NRA Board Member Herb Lanford Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1455,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.floydmortuary.com\\\/obituaries\\\/herbert-lanford-jr&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260214014651\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.floydmortuary.com\\\/obituaries\\\/herbert-lanford-jr&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 16:56:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:50:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:50:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I received news yesterday that Herbert Lanford, Jr., a longtime member of the NRA Board of Directors, died on February 1st. He was 75 years old. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydmortuary.com\/obituaries\/herbert-lanford-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He died in hospice care<\/a><\/strong> from Spartanburg (SC) Regional Hospice Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notice from NRA Secretary John Frazer reads in part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It is with great sadness that I share with you that NRA Board member Herbert A. \u201cHerb\u201d Lanford, Jr. passed away on February 1, 2024. He was 75 years old.&nbsp; Herb served on and off the Board beginning in 1986.&nbsp; He is survived by his brother, Tom; his sister, Joanne Hensley; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graveside services with military honors will be held at 4:00 p.m., Thursday, February 8, at Greenlawn Memorial Garden located at 1300 Fernwood Glendale Road, Spartanburg, SC&nbsp; 29307.&nbsp; Visitation will be at the graveside prior to the service.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><s>Lanford&#8217;s death will leave the Board with only 75 Directors as all three of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2023\/04\/03\/2023-nra-board-of-director-election-results.html\">non-elected candidates from 2023<\/a><\/strong> have filled positions on the Board.<\/s> Article IV, Section 2 of the NRA Bylaws makes no provision for filling a vacancy other than from those who had been on the ballot and not elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CORRECTION:<\/strong> I had assumed that James Chapman was already on the Board of Directors as he had received more votes than Rick Ector who is on the Board. I had forgotten Rick was elected as the 76th Director. Thus, James Chapman will fill the seat left empty by Herb Lanford&#8217;s death and the Board will still have 76 members. That is, for now. Things could change after the NY trial but who knows.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received news yesterday that Herbert Lanford, Jr., a longtime member of the NRA Board of Directors, died on&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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6741,26,12,6742],"class_list":["post-34035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herbert-lanford-jr","tag-nra","tag-nra-board-of-directors","tag-vacancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035","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=34035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34039,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035\/revisions\/34039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}