The NRA, which is secretive about its finances but seems to be in ever more serious debt, could go broke
is the mess at the National Rifle Association? Wayne LaPierre, who has led the outfit since 1991, said earlier this year that it might be forced to shut “forever” because of gun-shy banks and business owners. That might sound hyperbolic. After all,propagandists routinely claim some bogeyman—communists, zombies, “violent anti-second-amendment extremists” or New York’s governor—threatenmembers and their constitutional rights. Scaremongering drums up the dues that pay its boss lavishly.
Yet this time the lobby seems most intent on self-harm. A clash of personalities is partly to blame. Its ceremonial president Oliver North , said last week that a “clear crisis” besets the group. He then bungled an effort to topple Mr LaPierre. As recently as last week thehad gushed over Mr North as “a rock-solid purveyor of truth and defender of justice, relentless in the face of wrongful criticism.
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