Tom Selleck is an actor best known for his role in the 1980s television series “Magnum P.I.” He has also appeared in over 50 motion pictures. While serving as a member of the California National Guard, Selleck was activated during the 1965 riot in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. Selleck has claimed he is “not a spokesperson for the NRA,” despite his position on the organization’s board and the fact that he has appeared in numerous NRA ads. Politically, he has described himself as a “registered Independent with a lot of Libertarian leanings.” Selleck endorsed the Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), in 2008.

Tom King is a gun rights activist who lobbies the New York state legislature through the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. He also lobbies the federal government in conjunction with the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA). King was the NRA-ILA Volunteer Organizer of the Year in 2006. He has used his candidacy for the NRA Board of Directors to express his belief that the Second Amendment confers on an American citizen the “right to keep and bear the firearm of his choice wherever and whenever he chooses.”

Dave Butz is the host of an annual shooting event sponsored by the NRA called the “Redskins Sporting Clays Challenge.” The event has been criticized as insensitive in light of the number of young people shot and killed in Washington D.C., especially given the event’s billing as a way to improve the “health and wellness” of Washington youth by raising funds for the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation. The NRA is the most vocal opponent of strong gun laws in the District. Between 2008 and 2010, Butz received approximately $150,000 compensation per year from the National Rifle Association.

Ron Schmeits, who was born and raised in Nebraska, began his career as a banker and later served as mayor of Jordan, Minnesota from 1976 to 1980. He joined the NRA Board of Directors in 2000 and served as president of the organization from 2009 to 2011. Schmeits has called the National Rifle Association “the only and the largest, I think, you know, freedom organization that there is in the world.”

The son of two Wisconsin labor union organizers, David Keene has been active in national politics since 1968, and has worked for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole and Senator James L. Buckley. Keene served as Chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU) from 1984 until 2011. The ACU organizes the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of conservative organizations that is frequently co-sponsored by the National Rifle Association. Friends have nicknamed Keene “Baby Doc David Keene,” comparing his ability as a conservative power broker to Jean-Claude Duvalier’s iron-fisted rule of Haiti. High-profile lobbyist Craig Shirley has said of Keene, “In all those years that I’ve known him, there was never an important conservative meeting which he was not part of.” Fellow NRA Board Member Grover Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, has called Keene “a conservative Forrest Gump. He has been in the center of all things conservative for decades.” Keene serves as a Managing Associate at Carmen Group Lobbying, a firm that routinely collects over $10 million a year in lobbying fees. After becoming NRA President in May 2011, Keene stated that the organization’s “major goal is to defeat [President Barack] Obama [in the 2012 presidential election].” Once he stepped down as NRA president, Keene joined the Washington Times as its opinion editor.

Burtt is the Chairman of the Fifty Caliber Institute, an organization that claims that the .50 caliber sniper rifle is “helping to make our streets and nation safer.” The gun has been criticized by many—including members of law enforcement—as a weapon too dangerous for civilian use. John C. Killorin, a former special agent in charge of the Atlanta field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), called the .50 caliber sniper rifle “a devastatingly powerful weapon against which most troops, most law enforcement, no civilians, have any means of defense.” Additionally, in 2005, U.S. Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) and 28 cosponsors introduced legislation that would have placed stricter regulations on .50 caliber sniper rifles by placing them in the same federal regulatory class as machine guns. The 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Reduction Act found that “the intended use of these long-range firearms…is the taking of human life and the destruction of materiel, including armored vehicles and such components of the national critical infrastructure as radars and microwave transmission devices, in addition 50 caliber sniper weapons pose a significant threat to civil aviation in that they are capable of destroying or disabling jet aircraft … The virtually unrestricted availability of these firearms and ammunition, given the uses intended in their design and manufacture, present a serious and substantial threat to the national security.” Burtt, on the other hand, has called the .50 caliber sniper rifle—which was used by both Branch Davidians during the Waco siege and by IRA terrorists—“the safest firearm to have ever been manufactured in the United States.”

Wayne Anthony Ross has been a fixture in Alaskan politics, both as a candidate and a political operative, for decades. In 2009, Ross found himself at the center of controversy when he was nominated by then-Governor Sarah Palin to serve as Alaska’s Attorney General. His nomination was strongly opposed by the Native population, women’s group, and the LGBT community. After numerous past controversial statements by Ross came to light, the Alaska Legislature rejected his nomination. It was the first time in Alaska’s history that a head of a state agency had failed to be confirmed by the legislature. Ross is active in the Alaska State Defense Force, a state-sponsored militia that was disarmed by Palin (R-AK) in 2008 after a report characterized the force as a high liability risk to the state.

Joaquin Jackson is best known for his storied career while a member of the Texas Rangers law enforcement organization. Jackson also provided logistical support for Afghani mujahedeen training in the United States during the Soviet-Afghanistan conflict. He rose to prominence after his picture was featured on the cover of Texas Monthly magazine in 1994. After retiring from the Rangers, Jackson pursued a brief acting career before opening a private investigation firm.

Pete Brownell is the grandson of Brownells founder Bob Brownell and currently serves as the company’s president. Brownells is the world’s largest supplier of firearm parts, gunsmithing tools, equipment and accessories. The company is part of the NRA’s corporate giving program and has donated enough money to be included in “The Ring of Freedom,” a designation reserved for NRA’s largest corporate donors. Brownells contributed between $500,000 and $999,999 to the NRA between 2005 and 2010. During his campaign to join the NRA board, Brownell highlighted his company’s close ties with the organization, saying, “Having directors who intimately understand and work in leadership positions within the firearms industry ensures the NRA’s focus is honed on the overall mission of the organization.” Brownell, however, has claimed that he has no financial interest in the positions of the NRA. Brownell’s website allows customers to purchase high-capacity magazines for handguns and assault rifles, including magazines that hold up to 30 bullets. According to the website’s description for a detachable 30-round magazine for an AR-15 assault rifle, “A battle rifle is only as reliable as its magazine.”

Roy Innis was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1934 and moved to the United States with his mother in the 1940s. Innis worked as a research chemist before becoming involved in the civil rights movement. Starting as a member of the Harlem Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1963, Innis quickly rose through the organizations’ ranks, becoming National Chairman by 1968. A self-proclaimed black nationalist, Innis radically changed the mission of CORE, which was founded as a passive resistance organization with the goal of integration. Under Innis, CORE has instead advocated for economic competition with whites while stating that “integration as an end in itself is as dead as a doornail.” In the words of Mother Jones, “CORE is [now] better known among real civil rights groups for renting out its historic name to any corporation in need of a black front person. The group has taken money from the payday-lending industry, chemical giant (and original DDT manufacturer) Monsanto, and ExxonMobil.” James Farmer, the founder of CORE, has accused Innis of running a “fraudulent” organization and called him “an American Idi Amin.” In fact, Innis has previously stated that, “The monies of CORE are my money and CORE is my organization and I’ll run it the way I see fit.”