Wayne LaPierre touted an NRA school safety program after the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Here's how much the NRA really spent on it.
CEO Wayne La Pierre highlighted his organization’s efforts to bolster security at schools. He described schoolchildren as “our most treasured and precious resource” who deserve safety and protection.
“It’s total bulls---,” the former NRA adviser, who did not want to be named for fear of litigation, said. “I actually thought we were doing something good. It just wasn’t something they were ever interested in.” Arulanandam did not respond to a request for how many total trainings have been provided or how much money the NRA or its foundation spent on the trainings, but a part-time adjunct NRA instructor said he did at least 60 trainings over five years in 27 states prior to 2020.
“From armed security to building design and access control to information technology to student and teacher training, this multifaceted program Schools who got the grants in the past and were contacted by NBC News expressed gratitude for the support. Rick Blosser, a principal at Nickerson High School in Kansas, an hour northwest of Wichita, said his school hosted a four-day NRA School Shield assessor seminar in 2017 to help local schools evaluate building safety, including cameras, door locks and points of entry. He praised the training and said he would recommend it to other school officials. He said he’s not aware of any NRA grants for security upgrades that accompanied the training.
During the next three years, there were at least seven School Shield trainings by NRA staff or law enforcement in communities around the country, ranging from one-day workshops to multiple-day seminars, according to local news reports and school district websites. But there were no grants to schools to upgrade security, according to tax filings.
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