Under Wild Skies is a corporation and NRA vendor, whose function was to send NRA officials (LaPierre’s own hunt was a disaster) on free safaris, then bill the costs to NRA. UWS wasn’t owned by Ackerman McQueen, it was a separate corporation, but all or most of its board were Ackerman/Mercury Group staffers, whom we assume are also the shareholders.
UWS had a multi-year contract with NRA (maybe five years) and when NRA cut its ties with Ackerman, it cut them with UWS, too. UWS sued in Fairfax County Circuit Court for breach of contract, and NRA counterclaimed for a bunch of things.
We’re told all of NRA’s claims were shot down, and the jury awarded UWS $550,000. It may be worse than that, as the court only allowed damages for payments already past due (maybe just for those past due when the complaint was filed in 2019), not for future payments as they come due over the remaining years of the contract. That means that UWS can probably sue again for the remainder.
We’re told that the Brewer team for NRA was 10-11 attorneys; UWS had 1 or 2. The Brewer firm likely made a mint on the case. A weeklong trial, after three years of fighting, with a team of 10-11 attorneys billing at up to Brewer’s $1,400 per hour. The legal fees alone must have run into the millions, perhaps tens of millions.
Add one more to their long string of losses for NRA.
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NRA in Danger 
I am sure none who follow these things, that the Gang who couldn’t litigate, lost another one. Looking at the history of representation of our once great association it reminds me of Dodge City. We have some big processors there. Brewer & company seem to milking the cow in the chute on the way to the kill floor. Spending more than the case is worth seems to happen almost every time. Wasting valuable resources before the Armageddon that is coming could be seen as working toward an end. A happy ending for the lawyers.
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I am sure none who follow these things are surprised, that the Gang who couldn’t litigate, lost another one. Looking at the history of representation of our once great association it reminds me of Dodge City. We have some big processors there. Brewer & company seem to milking the cow in the chute on the way to the kill floor. Spending more than the case is worth seems to happen almost every time. Wasting valuable resources before the Armageddon that is coming could be seen as working toward an end. A happy ending for the lawyers.
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When will this bleeding stop? Will WLP and Wife, and the rest of the responsible cohort, be covered legally, if they retire gracefully with their golden-sunset contract?
Seems like the sooner their legacy is past the horizon, the NRA can start to rebuild in TX and get back into our fight front-and-center. Is our GOA / FPC / SAF / regional and state rights orgs the way to go instead (many 200 lb gorillas, instead of just the one 800 pounder), whether or not the NRA is around?
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