{"id":5802,"date":"2019-04-28T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2019-04-28T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T14:33:53","slug":"nraam-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/nraam-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NRAAM DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As expected, internal intrigues<\/a> took a new twist today, the second day of the National Rifle Association\u2019s Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An old\nfriend, Anthony Colandro, was voted onto the board.  He\u2019s a stalwart defender of gun owners\u2019 civil\nrights and I\u2019m happy to see him there.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also happy to see a new award established, the Roy Innis<\/a> Award. <\/a> \u00a0\u00a0The first recipient, posthumously, was Otis McDonald, the lead plaintiff in 2008\u2019s landmark McDonald v. Chicago <\/em>decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. That was the decision which confirmed that the Second Amendment did, in fact, speak to individual rights and not merely state militias.\u00a0 Roy Innis was the storied leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, and was as much a hero of gun owners civil rights as he was of civil rights for African-Americans.\u00a0 I had the honor of knowing both Roy and Otis, and am delighted to see both of these champions so recognized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got to spend\nsome time with old friends from the firearms training world, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And NRAAM\n2019 has one more day to go, followed by what will undoubtedly be an epic\nmeeting of the board of directors this coming Monday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne LaPierre at the members’ meeting,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The posthumous naming of Otis McDonald as winner of the new Roy Innis Award was the high point of the members’ meeting for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Massad<\/a>
There’s lots of collective experience and institutional memory to be found at NRAAM. Here I’m with John Farnam (center) and Ken Hackathorn (right), men who have done much for the armed citizens of America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, internal intrigues took a new twist today, the second day of the National Rifle Association\u2019s Annual Meeting. An old friend, Anthony Colandro, was voted onto the board.  He\u2019s a stalwart defender of gun owners\u2019 civil rights and I\u2019m happy to see him there.  I was also happy to see a new award established, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}