ATLANTA—Doug Hamlin, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), said the 154-year-old organization has implemented reforms to enable it to rise above its legal troubles.
“We’re making the changes we need to make the NRA stronger right where we are,” Hamlin told a gathering at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on April 26.
New chief compliance officer, Robert Mensinger told the gathering that the NRA now has the “gold standard” of accountability.
He was hired as one of 12 conditions handed down by New York Judge Joel Cohen last December.
Mensinger works directly for the board of directors, not NRA management, which gives him the independence to report his findings without fear of retaliation….