The NRA’s Wayne’s World Era is Over
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Long-time CEO Wayne LaPierre is out and legal challenges and lawsuits are mounting—but does that mean the NRA is losing its influence over American politics?
Guest: Dr. Matthew Lacombe, the Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in American Politics at Case Western Reserve University, author of Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force
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| 0:27.0 | This week in a Manhattan courtroom, we started to get a sense of how much it costs to run one of the most successful lobbying operations in the country. |
| 0:43.0 | The lobbying operation in question here is the National Rifle Association. |
| 0:52.0 | The New York State Attorney General has brought the NRA is the National Rifle Association. |
| 0:53.0 | The New York State Attorney General has brought the NRA and its leaders to court and |
| 0:57.4 | is accusing them of spending so extravagantly that they violated state laws governing |
| 1:02.4 | non- nonprofit organizations. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a trial that observers like Matthew Lachombe have been waiting years for. |
| 1:09.0 | It's been pretty highly anticipated for a number of reasons, |
| 1:13.1 | one of which is that this is an organization |
| 1:15.1 | that typically doesn't have a lot of transparency |
| 1:18.0 | into it that is going to have to reveal things |
| 1:20.6 | about itself as a result of these trial hearings. |
| 1:24.0 | Matthew wrote a book called Fire Power, all about the NRA. |
| 1:30.0 | He says for decades now, the organization has really been embodied by one man. |
| 1:35.0 | Its CEO, Wayne La Pierre. |
| 1:38.0 | The only thing, the only way, the best way, the surest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. |
| 1:48.0 | Is a good woman with a gun. |
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