The National Rifle Association has shut down its online TV channel and lost its chief lobbyist, new setbacks for group that also is the subject of another new congressional investigation, NPR has learned.
The NRA has struggled under both scrutiny from the outside for its connections to Russia’s interference in American politics and from internal divisions over its leadership and its finances.
The latest developments took place Wednesday when the gun rights group’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre, announced that the NRA’s online channel NRATV would stop broadcasting live programming.
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