IRS Should Probe Brady Group’s Failed “Bribery” Attempt of Former NRA Pres. Marion Hammer

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for an IRS investigation into a startling allegation made by former NRA President and Second Amendment champion Marion Hammer in a federal lawsuit in which she says an attorney representing the Brady gun control group allegedly offered her $5 million to “retire and cease advancing the interests of the NRA and defending the Second Amendment.”

The allegation says the offer was made in 2018. According to the language in the lawsuit, Hammer immediately reported the offer to then-Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.

“This is not the kind of offer a tax exempt organization should be making under any circumstances,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “First and foremost, nobody’s First Amendment rights should ever be for sale, and secondly, the nature of this allegation almost appears as though the gun control group was offering Mrs. Hammer a bribe to walk away from an issue to which she had dedicated most of her adult life.”

Hammer’s legal action involves an apparent contract dispute between her and the NRA.​

“We have absolutely no interest in, nor are we taking any position on, Mrs. Hammer’s lawsuit,” Gottlieb stated. “Our sole interest is in this apparent attempt by a wealthy gun prohibition lobbying organization to essentially silence one of the nation’s most respected and effective voices in support of Second Amendment rights.

“I am sure,” he observed, “that when the Brady Center applied for tax exempt status, this is not an activity they listed on their application, as I doubt it would qualify as a tax exempt function.

“A claim of this nature, especially in a federal lawsuit, absolutely deserves some investigation,” Gottlieb said. “While it appears no money ever exchanged hands, the idea such an offer was even made raises serious questions about what the gun control lobby does with its money [mush of it from taxpayer respources], and whether this sort of thing is acceptable under tax exempt guidelines.”

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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

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[Suck My Glock]

Perhaps I'm just not well versed in the law,...but I don't see what crime The Brady Campaign committed here (other than their regular treason, that is).

Marion Hammer, as far as I am aware, was not occupying a public office at the time, nor was she law enforcement. So as a private citizen, it was no more a criminal offense for them to try to pay her to make the NRA look bad than it would be for you or me to try to do the same to them. In bad taste perhaps, and of low character,...but not criminal.

Or is there something I'm missing?