The National Rifle Association has accepted contributions from about 23 Russians, or Americans living in Russia, since 2015, the gun rights group acknowledged to Congress.
The NRA said in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., unveiled on Wednesday, that the sum it received from those people was just over $2,500 and most of that was “routine payments” for membership dues or magazine subscriptions.
About $525 of that figure was from “two individuals who made contributions to the NRA.”
Wyden has been querying the NRA about its Russia connections following press reports that suggest the FBI is investigating whether Russians might have tried to use the NRA or other political organizations as part of their attack on the 2016 election.
NRA, In New Document, Acknowledges More Than 20 Russian-Linked Contributors
Dear God! the NRA colluded with the Russians to hack the elections at the tune of twenty-five hundred bucks!
And leave it to NPR to be accurate but not tell the truth and leave the accusation against the NRA still floating.
And no, it is not strange for foreigners to be NRA members, you are looking at one. I have been an NRA member on and off since 1986 I think, long before I even moved to the US after becoming a resident and then a citizen.
“or Americans living in Russia”
So couldn’t the contributors be American Embassy staff?
If so they’d need to be v-e-r-y careful … State isn’t known for its tolerance of alternate politicical views, even if they’re kept private and away from the mission.
“Buuut RUUUUSSSSIAAAA!! Buut TRUUUUMP!!1!” whined libtards everywhere.
LOL!
ABC is making it sound as it the senate should shut down the NRA because they failed to be 100% specific on where the money came from (incidentally, an amount that no democrat congresscritter would even bother to get out of bed for)
That sounds like proof positive of Neil Smith’s assertion, that “journalists” think the 1st Amendment only applies to them.