2019
Save the Second was organized for a very limited purpose.
To build a stronger, healthier National Rifle Association.
Five discrete goals
- Smaller Board
- Term Limits
- Director Attendance
- Member Engagement
- Exclusive 2A Focus
Save The Second
383 Corona Street Suite 505
Denver, CO 80218
About Save the Second
Save the Second is a reform campaign organized in 2019 by longtime National Rifle Association members who wanted to strengthen the NRA from within. The effort grew out of a Facebook discussion about NRA management in May 2019 and publicly debuted on June 17, 2019, as an incorporated nonprofit based in Denver. It was led by five members, Anthony Garcia, Ron Carter, Steve Hoback, Andrew Lander and Rob Pincus, with Pincus, a firearms trainer, serving as spokesperson. The group described its purpose as narrow: to build a stronger, healthier NRA rather than to replace it.
Its platform centered on governance. Save the Second called for shrinking the NRA Board of Directors from 76 members to 31, adopting term limits, requiring directors to attend meetings, increasing member participation in board elections, and refocusing the association exclusively on Second Amendment advocacy. During summer 2019 it circulated a petition supporting a board attendance requirement and urged voting members to press directors and back reform-minded candidates. Pincus discussed the campaign in national media interviews around the NRA’s September 2019 board meeting, and in January 2020 he announced his recommended candidates for that year’s NRA board ballot. The campaign became part of a broader member debate over NRA governance during a turbulent period for the association.
Key Facts
- May 2019: Campaign begins following an online discussion among NRA members
- June 17, 2019: Publicly launches as an incorporated nonprofit
- July 2019: Petition for an NRA board attendance requirement circulated
- September 2019: Spokesperson Rob Pincus interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now about NRA reform
- January 2020: Pincus announces recommended candidates for the 2020 NRA board ballot
Sources
- Save the Second NRA Campaign – The Trace
- NRA Reform Insurgents Face Many Obstacles – Nonprofit Quarterly
- NRA Board Meeting Reaction – WBUR Here and Now
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