NSR: A gun on Every Corner: Discuss the NRA, Gun Ownership and All Those Non-Mass Shootings..

Probably a Derringer: very small, just one shot, but extremely painful if you are shot with it. She nicknamed it "Wayne".

 

Idiot properly trained accidentally fires gun.

https://wsvn.com/news/local/police-officers-gun-accidentally-discharges-inside-sw-miami-dade-publix/


That's around my wife's work, although we don't go to that store very often.

 

I'm sure his students are better than him:

NEW: The off-duty Miami PD cop who accidentally shot a woman waiting in line at Publix... is a firearms instructor. https://t.co/hLuNhK1Jvw

— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) May 16, 2019

 

The NRA is borrowing a move from Bain Capital...

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/7229...nonprof?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Even as the organization pays its top executives high wages, the future prospects for those NRA employees who qualify for a pension are worsening.

NPR obtained a copy of 2019 National Rifle Association pension documents from a source with direct access to them. Brian Mittendorf, who chairs the Department of Accounting at Ohio State University, helped NPR review these documents.

They show that the NRA's pension obligations were approximately $134 million at the beginning of this year, but they had only set aside $93 million to meet those obligations.

They also show that the NRA's pension situation has become more troubling in the past few years. There are 786 people in the NRA's pension plan, of which 223 are currently employed by the organization.

Buried at the bottom of one page of the pension report, in a bullet point, the NRA said it had implemented a freeze to their pension plan in 2018. This means that even current employees who are in the plan can no longer accrue new benefits despite continuing to work for the organization.

"In effect, it is the most an organization can do to cut pension benefits without completely terminating its plan," Mittendorf said.

The freeze in benefits for employees who participate in the pension plan is in contrast to a one-time $3,767,345 supplemental retirement payment LaPierre received in 2015, according to the NRA's public disclosures.​

 

Arrived to the office today to find the parking lot closed by the police. There was a shooting last night at a bar that is in the same mall and a woman was wounded. So nice that we still have our freedoms.

 

The victim died. She was 17 years old.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local...-Bar-Shooting-in-SW-Miami-Dade-510369851.html

 

Northern Cuba.

 

NRA being counter-sued by their advertising firm:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pr-firm-countersues-nra-100-million-839628/

Ackerman McQueen is biting the hand that feeds it. The longtime PR firm for the National Rifle Association is counter-suing the gun group for a staggering $100 million, alleging the NRA is dishonestly attempting to sever business ties — for the benefit of the gun group’s top-dollar legal firm.

The PR firm’s suit was filed Thursday in Virginia state court, just a day after the NRA sued Ackerman McQueen for $40 million, accusing the firm of “fomenting” an attempted coup and leaking confidential documents. The counterclaim sheds new light on the power struggle that has roiled the gun world. And it helps explain why the NRA’s outside counsel has been drawn into the firefight. (For more detailed background on the turmoil read “WTF Is Happening at the NRA, Explained.”)

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The lawsuit alleges that the “NRA’s use of this Court to falsely demand access to documents that it already possessed…was a pretext designed to cover the ulterior motive of the lawsuit — to cause damage to AMc’s reputation and facilitate the transfer of AMc’s business to Brewer’s control.”

In addition to being a top-dollar law firm, Brewer, it turns out, has developed a PR practice. As detailed on the firm’s website: “We formed one of the first in-house strategic communications practices within a national litigation firm. Today, this public relations and communications practice group advises clients on a broad array of reputational issues, political and regulatory concerns, and image-building opportunities.”

If the lawsuit is correct, then the fight between North and LaPierre at the NRA convention, in fact, represented a proxy battle between Ackerman McQueen and Brewer over the rights to millions in annual NRA image-building business. The conflict is personal as well as professional: The legal firm’s chief, William A. Brewer III, is the son-in-law of Ackerman McQueen co-CEO Angus McQueen.​

 

Do you want fries with that?

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