Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire LaPierre received a base salary of $1.3 million, plus a bonus of $455,000 and “other repor

The media is doing a spectacular job of sowing dissension in the ranks of what has been and continues to be the most effective organization out there for gun rights. It's not hard, really. They start throwing out there some of the salaries and costs incurred by operating at top levels in fields of endeavor little understood or experienced by the largely blue-collar membership and they immediately have them in an uproar. It's the same way the left tears down successful institutions of all kind that are not philosophically aligned with them. At the same time, many of the people all indignant about what Wayne LaPierre is making have not problem supporting, through their patronage, entertainers who make obscene amounts of money playing children's games with balls. It's a shame everyone is not so worked up over the politicians of all stripes who, somehow, on salaries comparable to what a lot of us here make, end up with multimillion dollar homes and millions in the bank. People are funny.