{"id":35279,"date":"2025-04-18T18:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35279"},"modified":"2025-04-18T18:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:56:43","slug":"movin-on-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35279","title":{"rendered":"Movin&#8217; On Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:633,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/wmcl&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;:634,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/analysis-can-the-nra-still-pull-out-of-its-tailspin-member-exclusive&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250724181706\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/analysis-can-the-nra-still-pull-out-of-its-tailspin-member-exclusive\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:56:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 10:11:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 01:47:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 09:16:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 23:17:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 23:17:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just over a year ago I reported on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34176\">promotion of Wayne and Susan LaPierre&#8217;s niece<\/a><\/strong> to the position of Director of Events for Advancement. That post prompted then-NRA spokesperson Billy McLaughlin to reach out and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34184\">call that a false report<\/a><\/strong>. Then, as now, I stand by both the story and the sources. It is my understanding that Mrs. Sterner is no longer with the NRA nor is Tyler Schropp who promoted her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, that is not the point of this post. This morning a friend sent me a screenshot of McLaughlin&#8217;s LinkedIn page.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Billy-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Billy-M.jpg 358w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Billy-M-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wmcl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his LinkedIn page<\/a><\/strong>, McLaughlin left the NRA soon after he reached out to me to work for his own company and then to be the Chief Marketing Officer for Israel Campus Coalition. He is now the White House Director of Digital Content. That is quite a promotion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the circumstances of his leaving the NRA nor if he was pushed to respond to me by the Old Guard. I am glad to see he has landed on his feet. Hopefully, he puts in a good word now and then for the NRA. We will need it. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/analysis-can-the-nra-still-pull-out-of-its-tailspin-member-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Gutowski points out<\/a><\/strong>, President Trump can be fickle and could come around to the NRA again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago I reported on the promotion of Wayne and Susan LaPierre&#8217;s niece to the position&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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,1124],"class_list":["post-35279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nra","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279","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=35279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35282,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions\/35282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}