NRA TV may be no more

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The N.R.A. on Tuesday severed all business with the advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, which operates NRATV, the N.R.A.’s live broadcasting media.

No new production or live broadcast, but recorded material may continue.
 
To-do list for NRA:
  • Cut ties with rent-seeking consultants/advisers/leeches who drain millions from coffers every year.
  • Replace rent-seeking leadership.
  • Stop trying to be a lifestyle brand.
  • Stop conflating advocacy for their specific issues with being a general proponent of "conservative" politics.
  • Resume full-force support for the few remaining pro-gun Democrats (smart advocates want friends in both parties).
  • Stop trying to fleece rubes with stupid financial products.
 
NRA TV was apparently a resource sink and probably a way for the ad agency to get more billing hours out of the NRA coffers. That being said, some presence of the NRA with its own platform for videos and the like should exist (you simply cannot count on any commercial platforms from tech lords as they can and have shown a predilection for censoring or excluding content without recourse). My guess is that the ad agency owns the trademark to the NRA TV so Frankly the FAANG companies are not the friend of any of the Bill of Rights or the Constitution itself and any smart organization should not rely on those platforms for any services regardless of how "popular" they are said to be.
 
I still wonder what exactly caused the money to stop flowing and the membership to drop. This move was underway before Ollie and Wayne started Waynegate. The scandal may be obscuring some ongoing stuff that has a powerful negative impact. The NRATV could get offensive to moderates of all types when they had the turbocharges going. I'd like to know who was guiding the Ad agency putting together the NRATV content.

Dana and crew can really swing out of the light fixtures on some of these issues. Now these commentators are very subdued. Looks like they are more moderate/mild after, for what ever reason, the Association gets into trouble.
 
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WLP needs to get out of there ASAP. Every additional day he hangs around puts another nail in the NRA's coffin.

I mailed a letter saying that, basically.

I also let him know the money he spent on suits, boutique shopping, and his “intern’s” rent was more than I made in 60 months of active duty, 34 of them deployed, AND the small disability rating I received afterwords.
 
NRATV was still hosting videos of that Rodger Muller guy and his fake Aussie 2A organization as of the other day, so good riddance?
How can they be that disorganized?
 
We have named concerns here and in other threads. Unless I've missed something that has been an absence of solid information from the NRA. By all appearances the Association is imploding violently. It's a disastrous free fall.

NRATV did distortions and fake news to support an agenda. Who was calling and directing this agenda. "They" as a non-answer.
 
lifestyle brand
It's a culture war and if you can't bring the young people in, our horizon is 20 years. I see a fair many young people that really resonate with the pro-country/western, anti-big city liberal-establishment, pro-gun message.

  • Stop conflating advocacy for their specific issues with being a general proponent of "conservative" politics.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Obummer duped all the pro-gun blue collar types into hanging tight with the Dimwhits... and then back stabbed and sold us all out. The writing was on the wall and evidence was there... but the MSM aided and abetted and it's all history now. The Dems have since turned hard left rudder and are now all falling over each other to see who can go further out into the lunatic fringe. There are no allies in the D party. They're being purged by the AOC groupies.
 
(these are from the 2018 mid-terms):

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https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082

AP Investigation Finds NRA Gives Millions To Schools:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/09/592196621/ap-investigation-finds-nra-gives-millions-to-schools

The NRA's power: By the numbers:
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/354317-the-nras-power-by-the-numbers


This is what you will be destroying:

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https://explore.nra.org/interests/youth-interests

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http://www.eddieeagle.com/#/

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https://awards.nra.org/

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https://youthambassadors.nra.org/

index.php

https://mqp.nra.org/

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https://awards.nra.org/awards/brownellsnra-outstanding-achievement-youth-award/

index.php

https://yes.nra.org/

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https://yhec.nra.org/

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https://coach.nra.org/junior-shooting-camps/
 
It's a culture war and if you can't bring the young people in, our horizon is 20 years.

If you think the NRA's current overall political/cultural pitch is helping bring in young people... I just don't know what to tell you. It seems very evident to me that they are repelling far more young people than they are attracting. Orders of magnitude more.
 
anti-big city .

If your side in a political cultural war is "anti-big city," you lose. Higher and higher percentages of our population live in cities, and that trend seems likely to continue. Whether that is good or bad is a separate discussion, but those are the facts. You cannot win long-term by being the side of rural people... you're gonna get smoked doing that.
 
If you think the NRA's current overall political/cultural pitch is helping bring in young people... I just don't know what to tell you. It seems very evident to me that they are repelling far more young people than they are attracting. Orders of magnitude more.

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Please re-read my precise wording. I did not say that the NRA's support of competitive shooting is repelling young people. I said their overall political/cultural pitch is repelling many, many more young people than it is converting.

I feel like you're kind of whiffing on the whole point of this, which is that, if the NRA will focus on the right things (such as supporting shooting competitions), they can go back to being highly effective. Running inflamatory TV ads that threaten violence against people protesting police abuse... that's counterproductive. As is getting caught with the leadership engaged in gross personal rent-seeking.
 
Please re-read my precise wording. I did not say that the NRA's support of competitive shooting is repelling young people. I said their overall political/cultural pitch is repelling many, many more young people than it is converting.

I feel like you're kind of whiffing on the whole point of this, which is that, if the NRA will focus on the right things (such as supporting shooting competitions), they can go back to being highly effective. Running inflamatory TV ads that threaten violence against people protesting police abuse... that's counterproductive. As is getting caught with the leadership engaged in gross personal rent-seeking.

So what would an 142% INCREASE mean then ?

No, I think that 95% of the NRAs revenue goes to good causes and I support that.

If anyone can give any hard figures other than "Wayne is a meany" I will listen. So far all I've heard is hyperbole, supposition and fiction. I already have the $20,000 suits and $4500 apartment figures, how does that support that a substantial amount of money goes directly to Wayne pockets. I used a 95% figure on purpose.
 
Youth shooting up 142%. Let's say that's from 10k youth shooters to 14k. Awesome.

Let's say 20 million have come to regard the NRA as just being a bunch of quasi-fascists and white supremacists. Not awesome. And then attribute those qualities to gun owners in general. Even worse.

It's like a business doubling revenue (good) while increasing costs 200 times. On net - very, very bad. Keep trying to do the former, but it is even more important to stop doing the latter.
 
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