I can't get over how nuts this is. The NRA was selling insurance for when you kill someone with your gun. But it wasn't even good insurance on its own morally dubious terms, or even legal in a lot of states. But beyond that … https://t.co/uFF9UhOAX6 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 9, 2019
3/ standard gun safety NRA instructors who still provide a real service even if the rest of org is horrible. They were using retired special ops guys with urban warfare training, which is great experience in the military but maybe not if someone takes your parking space.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 9, 2019
It looked foolproof! Give your self-selected ammosexuals an outlet for their most paranoid, racist fantasies, and watch the dollars flow in! Unfortunately, the existing Repub professional grift-orgs… excuse me, PACs… saw Wayne LaPierre and his buds less as competitors/partners, and more as sheep for the fleecing:
… New York Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into alleged financial mismanagement at the NRA, while the group is embroiled in a messy lawsuit with its longtime image-maker, Ackerman McQueen. The NRA sued the Oklahoma City-based ad firm last month to get documents as part of an apparent internal investigation into whether the firm has been siphoning money out of the gun lobby, allegations that Ackerman denies.
Then there’s Carry Guard. The program — which offers combat training and liability insurance for shootings carried out in “self-defense” — was founded in 2017 to keep money flowing into the NRA’s dwindling coffers after President Trump’s surprise election left gun owners assured that, for the time being, at least, no “jack-booted” government officials were coming for their firearms.