I just googled NRA to see what's happening with them and I found this article. Apologies if this has already been posted

[ailsagirl]

The NRA Is Weaker Than Ever. How Much Does That Matter?
By Benjamin Hart
Mar. 7, 2024

In February, a New York jury found the NRA and former CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for corruption and ordered him to pay millions of dollars back to the organization. That was just the latest in a long series of blows to the NRA that have mostly been a result of mismanagement and alleged corruption. You’ve reported on a lot of this. How do you view the state of the NRA today? Is it like a completely broken organization or is it more resilient than it looks from the recent headlines about it?
They’re still larger than all the other gun-rights groups put together, pretty much however you measure those things.

They’re still the biggest, they’re still the most famous, and they still have the most political influence, at least in the gun-rights sphere of the Republican Party. Donald Trump still clearly views them as a very important part of his coalition. He spoke at their event in February right before this verdict was handed down, and he’s said he’s going to speak again in May at their annual meeting. Nothing on that front seems to have changed at all. So they’re still, for instance, ahead in the fundraising race — the money they’ve raised to this point is still greater than the money raised by all of the gun-control groups combined or any gun-rights group by several orders of magnitude.

At the same time, they are much smaller and less powerful than they were even just a few years ago. As of their last filing, I think they only had about $11 million in reserves in their PAC and super-PAC, which puts them well below the rate they need to raise to get even back to just their 2020 levels, which of course was an election in which the candidate they backed lost. They spent $50 million in 2016, and the hopes of getting back to that are nonexistent at this point.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-nra-is-weaker-than-ever-how-much-does-that-matter.html

[brewens]

1. I've seen posts from gun MAGAts saying fuck them and to go to an even more wacked out organization. n/t

[iemanja]

2. Yes, but the gun lobby's control over the courts is nonetheless complete.