According to Grass Roots North Carolina, the NRA held their meeting in Charlotte NC. Weird how no one knew
Cut and paste from their email:
Gun Rights Supporters:
Did you know that the NRA just yesterday held its annual meeting right here in Charlotte? You could be forgiven for not knowing, since
NRA leadership apparently didn’t want you to know.
As you’ve probably heard, the NRA is subject to legal action to
dissolve the organization by leftist New York State Attorney General Letitia James over allegations that NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and others “
looted” the organization, including allegedly
misappropriating $64 million of members’ money.
So to avoid accountability from members, apparently
the NRA decided to have an annual meeting nobody would attend. After cancelling its annual meeting and convention in Houston, ostensibly due to “COVID,” NRA leaders quietly and belatedly rescheduled it for Charlotte this weekend, presumably because the bylaws require having some type of annual meeting.
Of course, that was after they apparently ensured that
they utterly controlled who would attend by changing the minimum notification in the bylaws and changing what constitutes a quorum to 100 people (yes, at an organization claiming millions of members, a “quorum” for its annual meeting is 100 people).
Even if you are a voting member of the NRA, you might not have gotten notice of the meeting. (I’m a voting member, but I didn’t get notice, and neither did all but a couple of people I spoke to – people who are probably not on the NRA’s “naughty list” like I am.) Even those who got notice reportedly didn’t get it until late this week, days before the meeting.
Don’t take my word for it. My friend Jeff Knox, son of the legendary Neal Knox – the former NRA vice president who was removed from the NRA board for advocating reforms – just did a piece on it for
ammoland.com. Says Jeff:
“Under the new Bylaws, the Association is just required to meet the minimum announcement requirements of the state in which the Association is incorporated – New York – which offers several options for alerting members to a meeting. The easiest and cheapest of those options is for the Association to publish an announcement at least once per week for three weeks prior to the scheduled meeting, in a newspaper in the local area of the Association’s primary business location” (presumably, New York).
Inaction at the NRA annual meeting
But wait, there’s more:
There was nothing to be voted on at the meeting, the board of directors having already been decided upon (everyone on the preferred slate was re-elected, of course, and all of the write-ins failed).
The single resolution – to dump LaPierre & Co. – was reportedly tabled without a vote. Oh, yes: The NRA also reportedly claimed credit for state-level gains like we’ve made in North Carolina, despite the fact that
the NRA lobbyist has been seemingly absent for our entire legislative session.