{"id":35370,"date":"2025-05-16T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35370"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:59:05","slug":"just-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35370","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:587,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/t.co\\\/ht302TpDhG&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;:588,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/BillyMcLaughlin\\\/status\\\/1923189134601998341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&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;:376,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241212060435\\\/https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 03:36:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 03:28:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 06:56:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 20:51:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 20:51:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This appeared on both X and Facebook sometime late last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great to see my old boss &amp; friend Wayne LaPierre\u2014a patriot who fought like hell and defended freedom for nearly 50 years.<br><br>Letitia James launched a baseless, political attack to take him down\u2014the same playbook she used against President Trump.<br><br>Many turned on Wayne. I never will. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ht302TpDhG\">pic.twitter.com\/ht302TpDhG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Billy McLaughlin (@BillyMcLaughlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillyMcLaughlin\/status\/1923189134601998341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The last we heard of Wayne was after the New York trial where he had sent in his $4 million plus court ordered repayment to the NRA under appeal. He then rode off to what should have been a well-deserved obscurity somewhere in Texas never to be seen or heard from again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminder from the Final Judgment<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>ADJUDGED<\/strong> that Defendant Wayne LaPierre shall be barred from any fiduciary position as an officer or director of the NRA or any entity under the NRA&#8217;s direct control for a period of ten (10) years, from July 29, 2024, to July 28, 2034;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether this is some sort of resurrection tour for Wayne or what. Calling him a patriot and a victim of a &#8220;baseless, political attack&#8221; is ludicrous. Billy can believe whatever he wants but the damage Wayne did to the NRA far outweighs any good he might have done back in the day. We are still having to clean up the mess Wayne left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appeared on both X and Facebook sometime late last night. Great to see my old boss &amp; friend&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":[6782,5770,27],"class_list":["post-35370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-billy-mclaughlin","tag-state-of-new-york-v-nra-et-all","tag-wayne-lapierre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370","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=35370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35372,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370\/revisions\/35372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}