Renewed calls for gun control after dual massacres test a deeply divided NRA

The NRA “will not get another dime of my money until we get an accounting.” [Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group] That’s an increasingly common sentiment among listeners to Gresham, who has called for NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre to resign.“Everyone on the gun-rights side is concerned with what’s going on at the NRA because they recognize the vital role it plays in protecting our civil rights,” the radio host said in an interview. Marion Hammer, one of his most outspoken defenders on the 76-member board, said the group would not be distracted from its core mission.“I don’t have a crystal ball and I never make predictions, but the one thing I can say for certain is that the NRA will fight to protect the Second Amendment as hard as we always do,” said Hammer, who lobbies for gun rights in Florida. Adam Kraut, a past runner-up for the NRA board who turned down a chance to replace one of the recently resigned board members, on Monday joined a different gun-rights group, the Firearms Policy Coalition, as its new director of legal strategy.Unlike the NRA’s decision to wait until the Blumenthal-Graham legislation is introduced to take a position, the coalition came out Monday in opposition to the measure.“Red flag firearm prohibition and confiscation laws are unconstitutional, unsound, and dangerous policies,” the group said Monday.