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Turmoil racking the National Rifle Association is threatening to turn the groups annual convention into outright civil war, as insurgents maneuver to oust Wayne LaPierre, the foremost voice of the American gun rights movement.
The confrontation pits Mr. LaPierre, the organizations longtime chief executive, against its recently installed president, Oliver L. North, the central figure in the Reagan-era Iran-contra affair, who remains a hero to many on the right.
Behind it is a widening crisis involving a legal battle between the N.R.A. and its most influential contractor, Ackerman McQueen, amid renewed threats from regulators in New York, where the N.R.A. is chartered, to investigate the groups tax-exempt status. With contributions lagging, the N.R.A. is also facing an increasingly well-financed gun control movement, motivated by a string of mass shootings.
Mr. North asked Mr. LaPierre to resign on Wednesday, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. He said he had also created a committee to review allegations of financial improprieties that threaten the N.R.A.s status as a nonprofit organization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/business/nra-wayne-lapierre-oliver-north.html
The confrontation pits Mr. LaPierre, the organizations longtime chief executive, against its recently installed president, Oliver L. North, the central figure in the Reagan-era Iran-contra affair, who remains a hero to many on the right.
Behind it is a widening crisis involving a legal battle between the N.R.A. and its most influential contractor, Ackerman McQueen, amid renewed threats from regulators in New York, where the N.R.A. is chartered, to investigate the groups tax-exempt status. With contributions lagging, the N.R.A. is also facing an increasingly well-financed gun control movement, motivated by a string of mass shootings.
Mr. North asked Mr. LaPierre to resign on Wednesday, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. He said he had also created a committee to review allegations of financial improprieties that threaten the N.R.A.s status as a nonprofit organization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/business/nra-wayne-lapierre-oliver-north.html
Because if there's one thing Oliver North knows a thing or two about, it's a failed coup against a hostile insurgency!
*audience laughs and applauds*
This week the Top 10 is live from San Diego and jam packed! We take a look at the NRA convention, we meet some more of Trump's "very fine people", delve into the latest in the Julian Assange case, trash Operation Varsity Blues, tell the US government that they should recognize the Armenian Genocide already, and find out whether or not legendary songwriter Kate Smith was a raging racist (spoiler alert! probably). Plus in our weekly investigative piece, Top 10 Investigates, there's multiple conflicting reports about what exactly happened when Otto Warmbier's body left North Korea and arrived in the US, and we will go beyond the headlines to sort out the madness. And in our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in "Holy Shit", what exactly is the Christian right's beef with super-hot presidential candidate and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigeig? Our resident pastor thinks he knows the answer but can't quite put his finger on it. We also have a new edition of People Are Dumb, because of course they are! And our quest to find the Stupidest State 2019 continues for Round 2 Week 3! It's a battle of the Batshit and we're live in Ontario's Citizens Business Bank Arena as Kentucky takes on Georgia to see who flings the finest guano in the country! And we also have some live metal music from Maryland's Periphery!
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