In a letter to Wyden earlier this year, NRA general counsel John C. Frazer wrote that the group received just about $2,500 in 2015 and 2016 from 25 people with Russian addresses who paid standard membership dues and magazine subscription fees.
Pyper reached the man in Kentucky and learned he was an 88-year-old farmer who thought he was paying half of what he owed for overdue magazine subscription fees to avoid being taken to court.
This will include, among other things, the leasing of the cooking equipment from the company, insurance, advertising, utility deposits, licenses and permits, the initial food inventory, a subscription to Bucket (the company magazine), franchise fees, and five days of study at what the company calls K.F.C. University.
"When they try to add another revenue stream, like a magazine subscription fee, a bunch of their customers will balk at it," he said.
Later Wallace began to develop articles for Reader's Digest by commissioning them first and then offering the completed articles to other publications from which the Digest would then reprint them, paying the other magazine a fee for reprint rights.
The magazine receives licensing fees from the restaurant.
He assailed their "deceitful web of gun bans, ammo bans, magazine bans, exorbitant fees, and taxes and registration schemes".
But when a book deal the Felts family had been negotiating fell through, they agreed to a story - written by Mr O'Connor - appearing in the magazine for no fee.
The regulator's investigation looked into pricing practices across a broad spectrum of modelling assignments, from fashion magazine shoots offering models fees of a few hundred pounds to ad campaigns offering more than £10,000.
