"[1] In the early 1980s Harlon Carter, a top executive at the National Rifle Association (NRA), decided to hire an outside agency who "knew its way around a firearm" and Ackerman McQueen was picked.
Services provided the NRA include "public-relations work, marketing, branding, corporate communications, event planning, Web design, social-media engagement, and digital-content production.
"[3] Ackerman was involved in developing and marketing NRA Carry Guard, a for-fee program which made available to members a bundle of handgun training with liability insurance coverage for defensive gun use.
Its primary sponsors were manufacturers of guns and ammunition, such as Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, and SIG Sauer.
[3] In July 2020, Tammy Payne, a former employee, sued company CEO Revan McQueen in Oklahoma County District Court accusing the latter of hostile and abusive behavior towards her due to her romantic relationship with his widowed father.