These associations greatly benefit our customers by buying discounted rooms from groups that might otherwise be charged a penalty by hotels for not using all of the rooms in their block, HotelPlanner CEO Tim Hentschel said in a statement. Restaurant industry employees at the end of 2021, down 1 million from pre-pandemic levels. 188, https://nrawatch.org/filing/ny-ag-complaint-against-nra. [117] NY AG Files Amended Complaint against NRA, LaPierre, and Others, NRA Watch, August 16, 2021, para. [112] National Rifle Association, 2019 Consolidated Financial Statements, 6, March 11, 2020, https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NRA-2019-Annual-Report.pdf ; National Rifle Association, 2018 Annual Report, 7, March 13, 2019,https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/nra-2018-annual-financial-report/05b36d8c-cd64-4011-a685-e0a26eba9be6/ ($32,698,093 in 2018 and $28,439,529 in 2019). Any inquiries should be directed to [emailprotected]. Against Republicans. [1]This report provides various citations to court testimony, legal filings, regulatory filings, news reports, and other sources. Its mission is "to halt . The company makes and sells semi-automatic rifles and pistols such as the M1A rifle and the M1911 pistol. [101] Frontiersman (Frontie69105905), Twitter, January 10, 2021, archived on January 12, 2021, https://archive.is/UgqAP. https://t.co/fCVxcARyUq, The NRA and its leaders have even spread conspiracy theories suggesting that the counts of sick and dead from COVID-19 were fake or inflated. Emergency Assistance Plus provides trip protection when traveling in the United States or abroad. The luxury hotel chain hasn't yet released a statement concerning their partnership deals with the NRA. Q. Can you answer the questions that are asked? adding, Do you understand that Ive said that to you more than a dozen times over the last day?18. [39] Employment contract of Woody Phillips, NYAG Exhibit 123, In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, 2 (Compensation provided for was $30,000 a month). The organization hasn't commented on its ties to the NRA. A. I was told how to do the invoices. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. Honestly, thats our legislative priority. As Powell reports, he then realized that neither Steve Bannon nor Jared Kushner knew what concealed carry reciprocity was, and that no one in the White House knew about the bill that had passed the House. MidwayUSA offers a wide variety of outdoor goods, including camping gear, all-weather clothing and firearms. Senators bankrolled by the NRA: Mitt Romney: $13,648,000 Richard Burr: $6,987,000 Roy Blunt: $4,556,000 Thom Tillis: $4,421,000 Marco Rubio: $3,303,000 Joni Ernst: $3,125,000 Josh Hawley:. A. Here's how the list of politicians who have benefited from gun rights lobbying stands, minus 2021 contributions. into bankruptcy, and its lobbying apparatus is badly diminished as the organization has lost, in Mr. LaPierre's own. The National Rifle Association proudly announces the 2020 National Corporate Sponsors of the Friends of NRA program. But in the wake of the . Deposition and trial testimony also indicated that LaPierre received expensive benefits and perks from at least two NRA vendor.27 Most notably, LaPierre admitted that, starting in 2013, he began making annual weeklong trips to the Bahamas, where he stayed on one of two yachts owned by a Hollywood producer, who is a part or full stakeholder of multiple NRA vendors. . Therefore, it stands to reason that these are the same figures and that the figures reported in the Forms 990 can be compared against those in the consolidated financials. Survivors of the Florida shooting have rallied together and are demanding that lawmakers take action to address the availability of semi-automatic weapons in the United States. This is a decrease from the previous year, when the NRA spent about 4.92. Sirius airs a show from NRA TV called Cam & Co on its conservative Patriot station, where host Cam Edwards discusses current events in terms of how they might affect gun rights. As the NRAs former number two recently put it in a tell-all book, Wayne LaPierre knew that when the NRA needed to raise money, it could depend on fear-mongering messaging, which LaPierre purportedly referred to as pouring gasoline on the fire.98This sort of rhetoric continued around the 2020 election. HotelPlanner intends to honor its contract with the NRA. LifeLine Screening: Has not issued a comment. "We discovered several brand name businesses and corporate leaders who evidently have a nefarious agenda to limit gun rights. $3.75 of the membership dues are designated for magazine subscription. The NRA seemingly availed itself of the bankruptcy process to halt legal proceedings against it by state attorneys general, former vendors, and donors. What the Hell Is Going on at Our Airports? NRA leaders also helped cement the organizations reputation for pushing an extremist agenda. 95] Mel Dixon, Shooting Straight with Lauren Boebert, Americas 1st Freedom, NRA, January 27, 2021, https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2021/1/28/shooting-straight-with-lauren-boebert. started their industry careers in entry-level positions. Global Rescue, a provider of field rescue and evacuation services, continues to work with the NRA and hasn't released a statement on the matter. A representative for the Avis Budget Group, which operates the two car rental companies, confirmed to ThinkProgress February 23 that it would end its relationship with the NRA. . ReliaStar Life Insurance Company (ING): Has not issued a comment. According to the attorney general, LaPierre effectively dominates and controls the NRA Board as a whole through his control of business, patronage and special payment opportunities for board members, and his public allegations to the NRA membership of a criminal conspiracy against board members and officers who question his activities.. Due in large part to scandal, legal bills, and extremism, the NRAs declining influence in the policy and electoral sphere was on full display in the past year. The NRA also faces a donor class action lawsuit brought in federal court in Tennessee by prominent NRA donor David DellAquila.58 The case is still in its early stages procedurally, but DellAquila alleges that NRA donors were defrauded because NRA funds were spent on items that were not in furtherance of the NRAs mission.59. A company spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. BB&T operates branches in 15 states and Washington D.C. [71] Florida NRA Leader Questions Local Coronavirus Stats, Suggests Theyre deliberately deceptive, Tallahassee Democrat, May 26, 2020, https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/05/26/top-nra-official-florida-questions-local-coronavirus-statistics/5256829002. Yknow what? [126] National Rifle Association, 2019 Consolidated Financial Statements, 6, March 11, 2020, https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NRA-2019-Annual-Report.pdf. Incomprehensible," Romney wrote. In a December 2020 ruling, DC Superior Court Judge Jose M. Lopez issued an opinion allowing the attorney generals enforcement action to proceed. National Rifle Association members, who pay annual dues, are eligible for discounts at a variety of companies, from hotels to insurance firms. Hertz is out, too. Newsweek has reached out to Romney, Burr and Blunt, as well as a number of other senators on this list for comment. The NRA occupies an interesting place in the debate about guns in the United States. [20] NRA Executive Private Flight and Travel Log, NRA Watch, April 6, 2021, https://nrawatch.org/filing/nra-executive-private-flight-and-travel-log. Enterprise Holdings, which operates the rental car brands Enterprise, National and Alamo, says it will end its discount program for NRA members next month, along with Avis and Budget. Is this what you want? [131] Anna Massoglia and Alyce McFadden, NRA Bankruptcy Follows Years of Declining Political Spending, OpenSecrets, January 27, 2021, www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/nra-bankruptcy-follows-years-of-decline. Last year, as COVID-19 spread across the country, the NRA leadership used the moment to focus on their real priority: pushing a guns everywhere, for anyone, agenda. The political influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is once again in the spotlight in the wake of the mass shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. And did Mr. Phillips provide any consulting services to your department in 2019? The National Rifle Association is America's longest-standing civil rights organization. Business executives across the United States are calling out efforts to restrict voting access. This is the mirror your looking into and the image youll see should the Democrats keep the house, win the senate and/or take the White House. . It's not about boycotting companies and businesses but rather about giving Americans the ability to make informed decisions about where their hard-earned dollars go. . [94] Shooters Grill: The Safest Restaurant in America?, Americas 1st Freedom, August 19, 2015, https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2015/8/19/first-things-first/shooters-grill-the-safest-restaurant-in-america. Square Enix, a game developer, announced that it was giving $250,000 to the NAACP and Black . While NRA leaders have spent decades leveraging the energy of extremists for its own ends, in the past year the NRA went to new lengths to embrace rising extremism and conspiracism: peddling COVID-19 misinformation, advancing false and ridiculous QAnon conspiracy theories, supporting armed demonstrations, and more. Given the momentum behind the #NeverAgain movement, which was started by the Parkland survivors, it looks like there may be more to come. This has. Within two weeks of the declaration of a pandemic, reports emerged that the NRA was preparing layoffs and implementing a 20 percent pay cut for employees.102 By June 2020, we learned of the extent of those measures: the NRA had laid off or furloughed 200 staff members.103 One unnamed NRA official warned at the time that the layoffs and furloughs have further harmed both the NRAs legal capacity and political influence beyond what was already a troubling deterioration. A court filing indicated that by early 2021, the NRA had been reduced to 490 employees,104 down from the 770 it reported at the start of 2020105 and just over half the recent high reported four years earlier.106. NRA members were also expecting to hear from Texas Gov. This NRA-endorsed member insurance company hasn't issued a statement concerning the mass shooting in Florida or its ties to the NRA. When did you destroy them? Let the marketplace decide. [63] Mark Maremont and Aruna Viswanatha, IRS Investigating NRAs Wayne LaPierre for Possible Tax Fraud, Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-investigating-nras-wayne-lapierre-for-possible-tax-fraud-11601923467. For Phillips, the contract was a $360,000-a-year postemployment consulting contract.39 Recently departed CFO Craig Spray testified that while the NRA paid Phillips over $600,000 in 2019, Phillips did not provide any services to the NRAs Treasury Department that year.40 The revelation that LaPierre actually tried to convince Phillips to stay on as CFO and that the NRA provided him such a generous postemployment contract severely undermines the NRAs central argument at trial that it had righted its own ship internally.41. @ourvaluesusa, Twitter, June 26, 2020, https://twitter.com/MarkGeistSWP/status/1276499718282059777. [91] Paul LeBlanc, Video Surfaces of Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronting Parkland Shooting Survivor with Baseless Claims, CNN, January 28, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-video/index.html. National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA leadership are on borrowed time after a year of lawsuits, investigations, and personal embarrassments stemming from allegations of gross mismanagement of the organization. Gun-control activists have put out calls to boycott companies that do business with the NRA. Candidate Appeared with Religious Leader Who Plans to Become King of the US, Raleigh News & Observer, October 22, 2020, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article246619363.html. [55] Court Decision on Ackermans Motion to Dismiss Certain NRA Claims, NRA Watch, September 15, 2020, https://nrawatch.org/filing/court-decision-on-ackermans-motion-to-dismiss-certain-nra-claims. The invoices on Pages 4 and 5 do not include stops to Nebraska or the Bahamas. [22] Testimony of Wayne LaPierre In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, April 7, 2021, 155:1-22; 164:16 165:5. [127] Neil Weinberg, NRA Spending on Lawyers Is on Pace for Record This Year, Bloomberg, July 28, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/nra-legal-battles-squeeze-shrunken-budget-internal-records-show. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the group in 2020, accusing it of financial misconduct. At the ballot box, the NRA lost the three races in which it invested the most organizational resources: the White House and the two US Senate races in Georgia. The outdoor recreation outlet is under fire for not only supporting the NRA, but also supporting FedEx, which has yet to cut ties with the gun lobby. In less than two weeks, consumers have convinced more than 20 companies to end relationships with a gun lobby that has encouraged the proliferation of assault weapons and aggressively blocked virtually all legislation to curb gun violence. i Campaign finance totals for the current election cycle were released by the FEC on February 01, 2023 and by the IRS on April 03, 2019, lobbying data was released by the Senate Office of Public Records on March 19, 2019, outside . Some people have been calling out specific comedians and actors who have shows on SiriusXM, encouraging them to put pressure on the satellite radio company to distance itself from the NRA. Will It Succeed?, New York Times, January 21, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/business/nra-bankruptcy-new-york.html. . The credit card processing company has yet to release a statement regarding its relationship with the NRA. Members of the NRA, who pay a $40 annual fee, have access to special offers from partner companies on the group's website, ranging from life insurance to wine clubs. Ultimately, perhaps the greatest example of LaPierres failed leadership highlighted in the trial was his decision to plunge the NRA into bankruptcy, excluding others at the NRAa move federal judge Hale described as nothing less than shocking.19 At the end of the Chapter 11 process, the NRA had lost what was left of its credibility, spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and made various disclosures required by the bankruptcy process all to have the bankruptcy filing dismissed and for the NRA to end up in an even worse place than where the organization started before the bankruptcy proceeding began. VISA: A representative for VISA sent Esquire.com the following statement: "Visa has no contractual or financial relationship with the NRA. Testimony from two other NRA leaders left several questions unanswered. What happened to [your notes]? The NRAs bankruptcy trial prominently highlighted the failed leadership of Wayne LaPierre. Since this story was published, a number of companies have ended ties with the NRA including Allied Van Lines and NorthAmerican Van Lines, American National Insurance Company, Checks in the Mail, Hertz, Paramount RX, Securian Life Insurance Company, Starkey Hearing Technologies, and Toco Warranty, among others. The mass shooting at the elementary school, and Biden's plea for lawmakers to push back on the gun lobby, have magnified attention on the NRA, which is holding its annual meeting over Memorial . In a since-deleted video at one such protest, NRA board member Anthony Colandro encouraged others to attend the rally and claimed the virus was a bunch of bullshit and a media virus. He added, We are being spoon-fed socialism every day and 8.5 million people are just bending over and taking it. [16] Testimony of Wayne LaPierre In RE: NRA Bankruptcy Trial, April 7, 2021, 130:18 131:2. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms launched an initiative last year aimed at providing information to Second Amendment-loving Americans. 217-219,https://nrawatch.org/filing/ny-ag-files-amended-complaint-against-nra-lapierre-and-others. After initially defending discounts for NRA members traveling to Dallas in May for the groups annual convention, both Delta and United announced plans to end their respective relationships with the NRA Saturday. The company hasn't spoken publicly about the issue. Explaining that the stakes in the election couldnt be higher, LaPierre encouraged members to fight like your very right to survival is on the line in this national election.99 And in January 2021, LaPierre sent a letter to members warning of armed government agents storming your house, taking your guns, and hauling you off to prison.100 The note boasted that only the NRA has the strength to win knock-down brawls on Capitol Hill.101, The pandemic has been financially devastating for many individuals and organizations around the country. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. It was closely followed by Wells Fargo, which the organization noted has been called "The NRA's bank." The company has extended nearly half a billion dollars in credit to gun makers since 2012 . The company is owned by the family of former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam, and family members contributed a total of over $1.2 million to the NRCC, NRSC, and CLF. It doesn't have any branches in Arizona. FedEx offers NRA members discounts from 18 percent to 26 percent on domestic and international shipping. [30] Deposition of Wayne LaPierre, March 23, 2021, NRA Watch, 285-289, https://nrawatch.org/filing/deposition-of-nra-ceo-wayne-lapierre-bankruptcy-proceedings. [89] Cydney Hargis, NRAs Endorsement of High-Profile QAnon Candidates Is Not Its First Brush with the Conspiracy Theory, Media Matters for America, September 15, 2020, https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/nras-endorsement-high-profile-qanon-candidates-not-its-first-brush. LaPierre admitted to charging the NRA for private jet travel, including flights for private vacations and trips to pick up his niece in Nebraska.21After public scrutiny about his use of private jets, LaPierre paid the NRA back nearly $300,000 in flight costsa fraction of the apparent total spent on private flightsas an excess benefit transaction.22 In total, the New York attorney general has alleged that the NRA paid over $10 million for LaPierres private charter flights during his time at the NRA.23. 8, 52-53, https://nrawatch.org/filing/new-yorks-statement-of-charges-against-the-nra/.. [62] IRS Files Multi-Million-Dollar Claim in NRA Bankruptcy, NRA Watch, February 9, 2021, https://nrawatch.org/filing/irs-proof-of-claim-in-nra-bankruptcy. TRT Holdings (hospitality): $2 million. Activists are also encouraging boycotts of the companies that choose to remain affiliated with the NRA; they even created a Google Doc listing businesses still involved with the organization. Upcoming Events. Carletta Whiting, whos disabled & vulnerable to #coronavirus, asks Dems trying to exploit the pandemic: Why do you want to leave people like me defenseless?, Twitter, April 3, 2021, https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1241418470341980167. A. Below are the roughly 200 businesses that made the list: 20/20 Vision A&M Records AlleyCorp Alphabet, Inc. Amalgamated Bank Ambition AMC Theatres AOL / Time Warner Ariel Investments LLC Artsy. It is facing litigation not only from former vendors but also the New York and District of Columbia attorneys general for the extravagant spending that has come to define CEO Wayne LaPierres tenure. @realDonaldTrump needs to do national reciprocity executive order now for our #selfdefense, Twitter, November 23, 2020, https://twitter.com/WillesLee/status/1331092927783821312. The National Rifle Association is pleased to announce MidwayUSA as the official sponsor of its 2022 Annual Meetings and Exhibits to be held in Houston, Texas, May 27-29. In particular, his inability to answer questions posed to him during cross-examination prompted Judge Harlin Hale to repeatedly sustain objections and instruct LaPierre to answer the question asked. Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable [sic] consumer bloc, and they will decide where they spend their money.. Through the power of their letter-grade ratings of lawmakers, the NRA was able to brand politicians and, through its political action arm, endorse and support like-minded candidates. Evidence of luxurious personal spending by LaPierre including his private jet travel paid for by the NRA and family trips on a yacht paid for by a stakeholder of a key NRA vendor. NRA TV is also available on YouTube, which operates a three strikes policy on channels that violate its terms and conditions. The uproar has once again presented companies affiliated with the NRA, and its powerful pro-gun lobby, with a question: to cut ties, or to continue a relationship with a large but controversial group? [134] Caitlin McFall, NRA Invests at Least $4.5 Million in Georgia Runoff Elections, Fox Business, December 24, 2020, www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nra-invests-at-least-4-5-million-in-georgia-runoff-elections. The National Rifle Association has a lot of problems on its hands. The NRAs legal battles with its former public relations vendor, Ackerman McQueen, also continue to wind through the courts. [69] NRA (@NRA), Americans are flocking to gun stores because they know the only reliable self-defense during a crisis is the #2A. The NRA partners with dozens of businesses to spread its pro-gun message and provide discounts to its members, who number 5 million, according to the group. The National Rifle Association gave $9,900 to Cruz running up to the 2018 election. American Cellars Wine Club (Vinesse Wines): Has not issued a comment. (Note: Don Young (R, Alaska) would have ranked fourth on this list, but passed. [82] Media Research Council (@MRCTV), Black Lives Matter does not deal with the rule of the law, it is all about the rule of the mob. @AllenWest, Twitter, June 28, 2020, https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1277300734799736833. Targets Online and Rivers South Safaris add their support as 2020 Protector level Sponsors. A representative did not respond to a request for comment. The Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas will host NRA events during the groups annual convention in May. Also note the services and social media companies, such as Airbnb, DoorDash, Eventbrite, Lyft, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter, Uber, and Yelp. According to ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum, Fedex has received thousands of complaints from customers about its relationship with the NRA, but hasn't responded to them. The NRA attempted to point the finger at Phillips during the bankruptcy trial, with the NRAs counsel calling him a man not up for the job.37 This position was undercut by 2019 testimony by Wayne LaPierrein a separate matterthat he had tried to convince Phillips not to retire and instead to stay at the NRA as CFO.38 Further, in May 2018, Phillips and LaPierre both received generous contracts with the NRA. Legal proceedings and lawyers continue to dominate the NRAs day-to-day existence, with the NRA reportedly having spent $22 million on legal fees in the first five months of this year alone.44 Over the past year, the NRA has seemingly found itself in the news more for the legal drama that surrounds it, rather than its purported nonprofit purpose of Second Amendment advocacy. And as the Brady Campaign points out, those numbers are particularly stark when compared to the number of gun-related deaths in the state per year: 3,139. NetSpend, a pre-paid debit card company, hasn't cut ties with the NRA or addressed its relationship with the gun lobby organization. During the course of the NRAs failed bankruptcy, the Internal Revenue Service alleged that the NRA owed the government more than $3.4 million.62 About $1.4 million of that sum relates to undisclosed excise taxes and related interest that the NRA failed to pay between 2014 and 2018. Correct. [85] Ted Nugent, Facebook post, June 26, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/tednugent/posts/10157627452772297. James is. Smith & Wesson, O.F. Square Enix. [54] Mark Maremont, NRA Ad Firm Seeks to End Contract, Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/nra-ad-firm-seeks-to-end-contract-with-gun-group-11559145765. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Fact check after fact check has debunked conspiracy theories about the supposed inflation of the number of deaths from COVID-19.70 In May 2020, NRA board member and former president Marion Hammer complained that publishing the cumulative number of COVID-19 patients in a Florida county without publishing the current number of active cases is deliberately deceptive.71 Even in December 2020, the NRA published a piece on its website claiming that the number of deaths from COVID-19 had been inflated by public health officials, a claim it then used to cast aspersions on public health statistics regarding gun deaths.72 The day the piece went up on the NRAs website, 2,668 people in the United States died from COVID-19.73, NRA board members reacted to the pandemic by rushing headlong into racist remarks, dismissals, and conspiracy theories. Google Play offers NRA TV, and many pro-gun control activists are tweeting at the company to drop the network. Within weeks of the declaration of a pandemic, the NRA was back to the usual playbook: aggravating peoples sense of uncertainty and offering guns as a solution to their fears.66 The NRA warned that politicians were exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to deny you and your loved ones your fundamental right to self-defense and your Second Amendment rights . We may earn a commission from these links. In his purported resignation letter, Mills said he was resigning due to the NRA losing its insurance coverage that covers costs for directors and officers (D&O) in case they are sued as a result of their role with the organization.13 Ted Nugent resigned due to schedule conflicts, and Susan Howard resigned, reportedly saying she had a sickness of heart at what I have discovered regarding the lack of leadership in our leadersthey have failed not only the board but the entire membership of millions of faithful contributors.14 These three recent resignations from the NRAs board of directors brings the number of the resignations in the past two and a half years alone to at least twelve.15. We encourage people to buy products from companies they can count on to not support efforts aimed at curtailing constitutional rights, he explained. Today, Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1927, NRA-backed constitutional carry legislation authored . [84] Willes Lee (@WillesLee), Coons gaslights Dem domestic terrorists BLM & Antifa. In 2016, the NRA was the largest independent group supporting Donald Trumps candidacy, spending a reported $31.2 million on the presidential race.129 In 2020, the amount the NRA spent supporting Trump dropped some 47 percent, to $16.6 million.130 Overall, the NRAs spending on all federal elections dropped from $54.4 million in 2016 to $29.1 million in 2020.131, The huge drop in federal election spending could be explained by the groups many financial and legal troubles, as Donald Trump himself speculated that theyre spending all of their money on fighting the attorney general of New York instead of spending to support his campaign.132 The New York Times noted the NRAs muted appearance in 2020, writing, Long the nations most powerful gun lobby, the N.R.A. Some firearms manufacturers have elected to delay introduction of new guns in 2021. [124] National Rifle Association, 2019 Consolidated Financial Statements, 6-7, March 11, 2020, https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NRA-2019-Annual-Report.pdf. A federal judge threw out the National Rifle Association's bid to declare bankruptcy Tuesday, allowing New York to proceed in its effort to dissolve the gun rights group for alleged "fraud and abuse." [75] Willes Lee (@WillesLee), Ridiculous. [106] National Rifle Association, 2016 IRS Form 990, Part I, Line 5, September 18, 2017, https://nrawatch.org/filing/nra-2016-irs-form-990. Many of our groups are charity events, weddings, family reunions, and youth sports teams, so saving these groups that are on a budget from any unforeseen expense is our number one priority at HotelPlanner.com.. A. I was told they could be subpoenaed and used.). 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