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Bang for the Buck
The ruling closes a chapter on the battle between the gun group and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Cast as reformers by some in the gun rights movement, the elevated staffers will have to confront the organization's legal issues and the lowest dues revenue in two decades.
In Guns We Trust
All six episodes of "Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" are available now.
Following a corruption trial in New York, the gun group’s charitable arm will implement oversight and transparency measures to resolve allegations that it diverted millions of dollars in donor funds.
Gun restrictions were not always so fraught in America. The second episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explains how the National Rifle Association seized on the Second Amendment to change the course of history.
In the coming season of "Long Shadow," Trace staffers help explain how guns became a cultural signifier as our crisis of violence spiraled.
As the organization's social, political, and financial dominance in the gun rights arena wanes, other prominent groups are influencing the movement in newfound ways.
A New York jury ordered the gun group’s former CEO to pay more than $4.3 million in damages.
The NRA corruption trial forced its former CEO to tell the truth about himself, as the curtain dropped on a three-decade act.
The first day of deliberations was marked by a request for all relevant evidence and one complaint about the pace of discussions.
The previously unreported material shows that a grand jury subpoenaed the gun group’s chief financial officer in 2021.
We’re sharing transcripts from the trial to serve the public interest. They include the opening statements from the New York Attorney General’s Office and lawyers for the individual defendants.
In its ongoing corruption trial, the gun group is straining to distance itself from the man who led it for more than three decades.
A timeline of the reporting and investigations since The Trace exposed self-dealing at the nonprofit nearly five years ago.
Secret audio obtained by The Trace and ProPublica reveals executives from the gun group and its PR firm hatching a plan that would conceal payments for fancy hotels, limousines, and other luxury expenses for a decade.
