If this is true then the building reflect the overall state of the NRA as an organization. I also want to see the NRA back to what it was and as a life member an very disappointed in the current organization. Unfortunately all current indications are that the NRA will have to sink to get rid of the current leadership. The membership has zero leverage over the leadership other than walking away. Our votes are meaningless and they have clearly turned a deaf ear to the the membership and even the board of directed as indicated by the number of BoD members that have been drive out or left in protest. I have walked away at this point and will only return if meaningful changes to the leaders and leadership structure occurs.
You pretty-much express exactly how I feel in this post.
When it comes to the NRA I am now taking a "fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice, shame on me" approach. I've given them a lot of money over the years above and beyond my life membership dues. I've promoted them, been an NRA Certified Instructor in four disciplines for almost three decades and I gave my students discounts if they joined the NRA in any of my classes effectively matching dollar-for-dollar their membership dues or donations which, many many many times, meant giving them their class for free.
I have served as an RSO for too many NRA sponsored events to remember as well as a number of NRA fund-raising events, charities, etc., ... free of charge without even a free soft drink or hotdog being served to cadre for lunch.
Yet they spend lavish amounts of money on their own personal whims and wardrobes, planes and automobiles, cruises and cash .... they lived like kings and royalty at our expense.
I donated a rare Ithaca M37 trench gun used in WWII to the cause and a very very rare stamped and engraved Ithaca M37 that was used in the 1971 Attica Prison riot. I am so thankful now that I did not donate the remainder pf my Ithaca collection to the NRA. I intend to vigorously seek the return of the two shotguns I donated so many years ago.
I donated two period correct Ithaca M37 turkey guns to the Turkey Federation museum here in Edgefield and you should see how they cherish their donations and keep their donated shotguns pristine with far far fewer resources ... it's how things should be done.
The NRA - specifically WLP and his cronies - should be eviscerated for what they have done to a once proud and noble organization that we all relied-upon and that we all trusted to uphold our values and integrity as our righteous representatives and as the face of OUR organization, NOT theirs.
I am absolutely indignant about what has happened and what continues to-be exposed. I have zero sympathy for WLP or any of his closest cronies and only empathy for my once beloved NRA that my Grandpappy and Pappy both extolled as the United States' greatest defender of freedom.
There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for what WLP has done and we all should have realized it 15-20 years ago when he, WLP, got his first botox injection and later his plastic surgery. But we overlooked his pathological eccentricities because he was WLP.
If it does come back, the NRA, then we must remember what is happening here and now and vow to never ever allow it to happen again. And the only way for that to happen is for the average Joe membership to retake control.