At least one NRA director privately expressed concerns about the alleged extravagance of the Alaska trip.
, the director warned of how the recreational nature of the gathering could be construed by NRA opponents should details be leaked to the media.
While nothing in the Alaska itinerary raises flags of the sort that has engulfed the NRA in recent months, Marc Owens, former director of the Exempt Organizations Division at the IRS, noted that the group's plans were indicative of a trade association's activities more so than those of a social welfare organization, which is how the group is classified under federal tax-exempt rules.
The NRA has two board members who hail from Alaska. Wayne Ross, who also sits on the Alaska Gun Collectors Association's board, won't be attending the D.C. meeting. Young, already in D.C. for the current congressional session, will be at the meeting, though he expected only about 40 of the group's 76 board seats to be represented.Newsweek
"I'm writing to inform you that due to the developing legislative situation at the federal level, our fall board meeting is being moved and rescheduled," Frazer said in a letter to the board and executive council on August 27.that it was the NRA's executive committee which formally acted to move the meeting.
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