NRA is what?

Many people feel the NRA is for protecting gun rights, for giving people the right to bear arms. It may be however that this idea is obsolete.

8. "Secrecy, Self-Dealing, and Greed at the N.R.A."

"The N.R.A. is now mainly a media company, promoting a life style built around loving guns and hating anyone who might take them away," writesMike Spies in a deep dive for The New Yorker.

Spokesperson Dana Loesch and activist Colion Noir are the organization's most famous faces, but they "are not technically employed by the N.R.A. Instead, they are paid by Ackerman McQueen, a public-relations firm based in Oklahoma."
"For more than three decades, Ackerman has shaped the N.R.A.’s public identity, helping to build it from a niche activist organization into a ubiquitous presence in American popular culture."

Why it matters: This relationship seems "to be largely responsible for the N.R.A.’s dire financial state. ... [A] small group of N.R.A. executives, contractors, and vendors has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the nonprofit’s budget, through gratuitous payments, sweetheart deals, and opaque financial arrangements."

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