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Attorney General Letitia James. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics. Oliver North, the retired Marine lieutenant colonel who became the NRA's president in , stepped down in after alleging financial improprieties at the association. Saying it's in its strongest financial shape in years, the NRA said Friday it would seek court approval to incorporate as a nonprofit in Texas, where , of its claimed 5 million members reside, according to the NRA.
The organization plans to undergo restructuring "to streamline costs and expenses," according to its statement. IE 11 is not supported. In , it began attempting to influence policy directly via a newly formed lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action.
The NRA is now among the most powerful special interest lobby groups in the US, with a substantial budget to influence members of Congress on gun policy. It is run by executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre. In August , prosecutors in New York and Washington DC announced that they would seek to dissolve the organisation over allegations that senior leadership misused a charity fund, redirecting the money for lavish personal spending.
But the NRA has a much larger membership than any of those groups and disburses funds for things such as gun ranges and educational programmes.
That is only the recorded contributions to lawmakers however, and considerable sums are spent elsewhere via PACs and independent expenditures - funds which are difficult to track. Analysts point out that the NRA also wields considerable indirect influence via its highly politically engaged membership, many of whom will vote one way or another based on this single issue.
Those ratings can have a serious effect on poll numbers and even cost pro-gun control candidates a seat. But since the election of Donald Trump in , NRA spending on campaigns in the states has plummeted. The drop came amid the rise of pro-control groups, who have received millions of dollars from backers who oppose most NRA policies.
It was estimated that gun control groups may have outspent the NRA for the first time ever in
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