It turns out that Wayne LaPierre's free trip on a megayacht owned by an NRA contractor may not have been for a "security retreat" as he testified in the bankruptcy case.
LaPierre was questioned about this trip during the bankruptcy hearing. He tried to explain most of the extravagant expenditures he made as being for reasons of security. He also testified he didn't have security staff look at the boat or its guests. So, yea...
If I recall correctly, LaPierre also claimed an exterminator treatment at his house that he charged to the NRA was appropriate for security reasons as well. He said the security he had hired complained of bug bites was the reasoning.
LaPierre obviously has very real security needs. He gets a lot of death threats and was even SWATed once. However, security needs were by far his most common explanation for the questionable expenses he billed to the NRA over the years.
For instance, security was given as the motivating factor behind the abandoned plan for the NRA to buy LaPierre a $5 million house through its former media contractor wsj.com/articles/nra-c…

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How will the Eagles manage to lose a game against a team where half their team is out? What's everyone's best guess?
I guess Goedert dropping an easy pass and having it bounce off his heel for an interception is one way to do it... #Eagles
Oh my God. They're really going to figure out a way to lose this game.
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21 Dec
Endorsing "an alarming affront to federal protection of constitutional rights and to the rule of law" to own the cons.
Hardcore partisans all sound the same after a while. It's like they just copy each other's scripts and use a quick word replace scan to reverse the favored buzzwords.
Is the argument "leaders of every state concerned with protecting innocent residents from avoidable slaughter" should use the civil-suit enforcement gimmick from Texas abortion law supporters or from this op-ed? Guess without looking.
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The NRA's latest ad features a border agent who refuses to get vaccinated warning "every state will become a border state with illegal immigrants committing violent crimes" if the border isn't secured.
It also features his wife who claims to have scared off 4 illegal immigrants who broke into their home. She says she used a samurai sword and a chihuahua. Afterwards, she bought a gun.
This is an ad primarily about opposition to vaccine mandates and support for stiffer border policy. It is tangentially related to guns in that the anti-vax agent and his wife own guns because of a home invasion.
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Starting a new publication is exciting and terrifying all at once and all the time.
If you make this jump, there are a dozen different ways to look at your metrics that can make you feel great or terrible. You will manage to feel both ways simultaneously pretty much constantly. It's pretty stressful, to be honest.
That's why you'd better believe in what you're doing or it's not worth it. That's especially true when the interest waines a bit as you get further from launch and you hit the winter slow season. You have to be confident in order to make it through the hard points.
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When I teach a gun-safety course I tell my students that everyone is responsible for gun safety and they should speak up if they witness anyone doing anything unsafe, even me. There's no reason a set shouldn't operate the exact same way.
I can understand why an armorer wouldn't want an actor to mess with the loadout of a gun set up in a specific way for a scene, but Baldwin himself provides a reasonable alternative in his ABC interview: have the armorer show everyone the gun is safe. thereload.com/analysis-compl…
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It's weird that Fox is making this horror movie into a competition cooking show, right?
I mean, what the hell is going on here?
This reminds me of the time Sony made a Jessie Eisenberg comedy out of a true story where criminals strapped a bomb to a pizza delivery guy and forced him to rob a bank before killing him.
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