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Executive Compensation at Wounded Warrior Project Executive Salaries at St. But since Wayne LaPierre was named CEO in , he has steadily led the organization to growing membership and revenue—and his pay has increased accordingly.
But in some years, LaPierre has earned far more. The history of the NRA dates back to , when a pair of Civil War veterans created the organization for the purposes of improving marksmanship. For most of its existence, the NRA supported gun control regulations that would seem strict by today's standards.
However, in —about the time a young Wayne LaPierre became an NRA employee—a conservative faction took over NRA leadership focused on guaranteeing gun ownership as a legal right for all Americans, and not just members of a "well regulated militia" as mentioned in the Second Amendment.
There is some dispute as to how many NRA members there are in any given year, but there is no question that NRA membership, money, and influence have expanded dramatically over the past four decades. The NRA claimed to have 2. Membership ranks grew to 3. Instead, the lion's share of NRA revenues comes from the gun industry and large corporations, which provide the group with grants, donations, and sometimes even a percentage of their firearm sales.
Some gun manufacturers give away free NRA memberships to customers making qualified purchases as well. According to OpenSecrets. But this may not give a clear indication of the NRA's influence. It was a title the group then held for three years in a row. He grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, received a bachelor's degree from Siena College in upstate New York, and completed a master's degree in government at Boston College.
He was not known as a particularly active hunter or gun enthusiast, but worked on some gun legislation when he was a young aide to a Democratic state legislator in Virginia.
They are believed to live in wealthy suburbs of Washington, D. Wayne LaPierre is best known for making controversial comments in staunch defense of gun owners, gun rights, and the Second Amendment. Shortly after a comment by LaPierre referring to "jack-booted government thugs [being given] more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us," former president George H.
Bush resigned as a lifetime member of the NRA. He's been cast as the Darth Vader of gun politics, but he's more like Mother Teresa. Above all, many say that LaPierre is simply a professional political operator.
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