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DALLAS — Are the leaders of the National Rifle Association abusing the legal system to duck accountability for their mismanagement? Or are they making a legitimate move to reorganize in the face of an attack from politicians bent on dismantling the powerful gun-rights group? A federal judge in Dallas was left to weigh those competing narratives following closing arguments Monday in the NRA’s bankruptcy trial. Judge Harlin Hale said he expects to issue a written ruling early next week in the case over whether the NRA can move its incorporation from New York to Texas. Lawyers for the NRA a...

Screenshot from "Under Wild Skies" Reprinted with permission from DailyKos In the middle of the back-and-forth lawsuits between the NRA and its former piggy bank (and public relations consulting partner) Ackerman McQueen, the pro-Second Amendment organization was hit with another lawsuit from the producers of a show claiming they were left in the lurch after the NRA closed down its NRATV channel in 2019. Producers on a long-running program called Under Wild Skies alleged the NRA had not fully paid them for all of the shows that were produced for the gun group. This would not be the t...

Days after the New Yorker and The Trace jointly released footage of his botched elephant hunt in Botswana, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre faced questions about the embarrassing video during the group’s federal bankruptcy trial on Thursday. A lawyer for the NRA’s former publicity firm Ackerman McQueen cited the footage, widely viewed as a public relations disaster for the gun group, to undermine the CEO’s testimony that he aimed to appeal to “mainstream America.” “Not to ignore the elephant in the room, but let’s talk about elephants,” attorney Mike Gruber s...

‘The Elephant in the Room’: Wayne LaPierre Grilled on Botched Botswana Hunt in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Adam Klasfeld © Provided by Law & Crime Video of NRA chief Wayne LaPierre’s botched elephant hunt made its way into his testimony during the group’s federal bankruptcy trial. Days after the New Yorker and The Trace jointly released footage of his botched elephant hunt in Botswana, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre faced questions about the embarrassing video during the group’s federal bankruptcy trial on Thursday. A lawyer for the NRA’s former publ...

The NRA's Wayne LaPierre Is an Emblem for a Conservative Movement Full of Snake-Oil Salesmen Esquire 4/28/2021 Jack Holmes © Joe Raedle - Getty Images The revelation that he isn't much of a marksman is right in line with the rest of his service to the gun-rights nonprofit, which has declared bankruptcy amid a hail of malfeasance allegations. One unfortunate consequence of the conservative movement's descent into nihilism and madness is that it has produced increasingly mediocre"stars" who distinguish themselves only by their willingness to behave more shamelessly than eve...