Report From The 2024 Annual Meeting

Much info circulating, no time to confirm most of it.

Thursday nite some manner of (informal) directors’ meeting was held. The new reformer directors were excluded. At it Bill Brewer demanded immediate payment of over $20 million in fees to his firm (the immediacy indicating he suspects the reformers have the backing of most of the board for its Monday meeting. It was announced that each director would have a whole 3 minutes to speak (on a matter of $20 million!), but a bunch gave their time to former president Jim Porter, a *real* trial attorney, who lit up Brewer with a flamethrower, showing how he’d cost NRA $200 million, while losing nearly everything his firm handled. Three cheers for Porter (and two for the directors who gave him their time, and realized what good move this was. Three minutes was meant to insure that nobody had time enough to raise a serious objection, but give a lot of time to a real trial attorney and his target isn’t going to be sitting down for a month. (After a reaming like that, he isn’t going to have problems with hemorrhoids or constipation, either).

Rumor is that NRA is nearly insolvent, perhaps will not survive until the next board meeting. This time it will be a real bankruptcy, when it cannot meet payroll, and the Whittington Center will be first item on the auction block, followed by the National Firearms Museum’s collections.

NRA’s “leadership” has chosen Joel Friedman as its nominee for 76th director. In doing so it threw under the bus two former NRA presidents (John Sigler and David Keene) who were far more qualified for the post. Persons are handling out pamphlets supporting Friedman, some of those persons when asked, admitted they were from hundreds of miles away, and not saying who hired them or paid their expenses. “Leadership’ is pulling all the stops out. I cast my vote for reformer Jim Wallace today. There may be a voting booth at the back of the members’ meeting for those who haven’t voted yet.

President Trump speaks tomorrow, just an hour after the members’ meeting begins. The betting is that this timing was meant to draw members away from the members’ meeting. We might think that manipulating a pro-2A presidential candidate in order to keep NRA “leadership” in lucrative power would be going too far, but on the contrary, when leadership goes all out, it is not out of the question. Leadership led by an attorney with tens of millions on the line, that is.

The course is so obvious. Support the reformers, ditch the Brewer firm, prove your integrity, ask the lost million+ members to return to an honest NRA, or face bankruptcy. A simple binary choice. To the board: there will be much honor in being a member of the board that revolved against corruption and led this 153 year old organization through its greatest crisis. There will be no honor in being a member of NRA’s last board of directors. Just lifelong shame in the eyes of your fellow gun owners. It can’t be much clearer than that. Side with reform and honesty, or with corruption, greed, and lies. You were chosen by responsible gun owners: show some responsibility as their leaders.