Oh, come on, I’m not the only one who loved the movie 300, am I? 🙂 Well, I might not have Gerard Butler‘s abs, but as of right now I do have 300 people standing beside me.

[EDITED TO ADD: By the way – please don’t take the Sparta reference as anything but tongue-and-cheek. We gotta laugh to keep from crying, right? Just a bit of lighthearted fun; don’t overthink it. I have absolutely ZERO plans to spark any kind of war, here. As I’ve said before, I still support the NRA. I honestly do.]

All we want is for the NRA Board to be fair, honest, and accountable. I don’t think that’s too much to ask. If you agree, please use the form below to be added to the 300 names on this letter to the NRA Board.

The last time I sent the letter, there were only 240 names. The list keeps growing. Since we haven’t gotten much of a response so far, I’ve now written a second letter as a friendly reminder that the first one wasn’t just a rhetorical exercise. You can read the follow-up letter here. In short, these are my latest inquiries:

1. On what specific date will the Board discuss and vote on the referred resolution?
2. Will you personally (each individual Board Member) support the call for recusal of any Board Member directly involved with Ackerman McQueen or otherwise implicated in the referred resolution?
3. Will the Secretary’s Office make available an itemized account of each Board Member’s vote on the resolution (a roll-call vote, rather than a vote by acclamation)? I understand that the discussions might be shielded by Executive Session confidentiality, but I am only asking for list of names and raw vote counts — yea, nay, abstain, and absent.
4. The next NRA Board Meeting is scheduled to take place in Anchorage, Alaska – over 4,200 miles from the NRA’s headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. One can only imagine that financing such a distant trip for so many board members, officers, and staff would be far more expensive than hosting the meeting closer to the NRA’s base of operations. Given the NRA’s own claims of financial hardship and costly impending battles (pleaded as a predicate to recent aggressive fundraising campaigns) and the mounting reports of financial mismanagement and overspending, would the NRA Board consider relocating the next Board meeting to a more cost-effective venue?

The second letter also features a few of the comments many of you have included in your emails to me. Doesn’t take long to recognize a clear theme emerging:

• Not a penny more until the bad actors are flushed…
• The NRA has forgotten it’s the members that made it powerful…
• This is just what the left is looking for to destroy the organization…
• In order for the NRA to [be] most effective the NRA must keep a clean house…
• Drain the swamp…
• Those who are guilty must be recognized and be made accountable…

And on and on like that for scores of emails, PMs, text messages, Facebook posts, and whatnot. They didn’t seem to hear the first 60, or the 120, or the 240 folks screaming out for answers. Let’s hope somebody hears these 300.

Don’t let the NRA cannibalize itself. Nowadays, we need the NRA to be stronger than ever. Help us. Join us.

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