CCRKBA Calls for IRS Probe into Alleged $5M Brady Bribe Offer to Marion Hammer

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is demanding that the IRS investigate a bombshell claim involving the Brady gun control group and former NRA President Marion Hammer.

According to a federal lawsuit, an attorney linked to the Brady Center allegedly offered Hammer $5 million in 2018 to retire and stop advocating for the Second Amendment. Hammer reportedly rejected the offer and immediately informed then-NRA Executive VP Wayne LaPierre.

“This is not the kind of offer a tax-exempt organization should be making under any circumstances,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Nobody’s First Amendment rights should ever be for sale.”

Gottlieb says the alleged $5 million offer has nothing to do with Marion Hammer’s current legal dispute with the NRA. Instead, CCRKBA’s concern is about a tax-exempt lobbying group allegedly attempting to sideline one of the most respected pro-gun voices in America with a multi-million-dollar payoff.

“The nature of this allegation almost appears as though the gun control group was offering Mrs. Hammer a bribe to walk away,” Gottlieb said.

If true, this could raise serious questions about how anti-gun groups operate—and what they’re doing with their donor money.

While the Brady Center hasn’t commented publicly, the lawsuit notes that the alleged offer was never accepted, and no money exchanged hands.

Still, CCRKBA says that’s not enough.

“I am sure that when the Brady Center applied for tax-exempt status, this is not an activity they listed on their application,” Gottlieb said. “A claim like this, especially in a federal lawsuit, absolutely deserves investigation.”

If proven, the allegation could threaten the Brady Center’s tax-exempt standing and raise broader ethical concerns across the gun control movement.

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