{"id":18954,"date":"2019-04-27T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954"},"modified":"2019-04-27T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T19:40:46","slug":"new-york-attorney-general-investigates-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954","title":{"rendered":"New York Attorney General investigates NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraam.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRA Annual Meeting<\/a> is underway.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced at the start of the member&#8217;s meeting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/27\/politics\/oliver-north-nra\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oliver North resigned<\/a>.\u00a0 I watched the broadcast and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2019\/04\/nra-leadership-metltdown-cut-out-lapierre-ackerman-mcqueen-cancer\/#axzz5mKGGWfqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the membership is upset<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-asked-resign-new-york-times-reports-n999101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accusations of impropriety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XN88b9EfBbo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uiD_CnvMCuU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The behavior of current and former NRA Directors in trying to shut down debate was disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has come out that <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannyhakim\/status\/1122210887127982080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened up an investigation<\/a> of the Association&#8217;s tax status.\u00a0 Nothing good will come of that.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D18954&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA Annual Meeting is underway. It was announced at the start of the member&#8217;s meeting that Oliver North resigned.\u00a0 I watched the broadcast and the membership is upset over accusations of impropriety. The behavior of current and former NRA Directors in trying to shut down debate was disgraceful. Now it has come out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D18954&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18954\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nra","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18960,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954\/revisions\/18960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}