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At the White House Correspondents Dinner Conan O'Brien asked... [View all]
...what you have to do to be NRA President after noting that Wayne LaPierre is only the Executive Vice President.
We have our answer:
NRA's next president to lead its court fights against gun control
ReutersBy Andrea Lorenz | Reuters – 13 hrs ago
By Andrea Lorenz
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Alabama lawyer Jim Porter, in line to become the next president of the National Rifle Association, is expected to spearhead the group's court challenges of gun-control laws enacted in several states since the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting massacre.
Porter, 64, the son of another Alabama lawyer who served as NRA president from 1959 to 1961, is likely to succeed David Keene on Monday in the two-year post at the nation's leading gun-rights organization.
The longtime member is chairman of the legal affairs committee for the NRA, which has headed off federal attempts to approve new gun ownership restrictions, including a U.S. Senate proposal last month for expanded background checks.
Porter told NRA members at their annual convention in Houston on Saturday that President Barack Obama was "AWOL" on border security, the deficit and national security, but "scheming and plotting" to take away Americans' gun rights.
More: http://news.yahoo.com/nras-next-president-lead-court-fights-against-gun-044247373.html;_ylt=AwrNUbDZn4ZRTn4AN0XQtDMD
ReutersBy Andrea Lorenz | Reuters – 13 hrs ago
By Andrea Lorenz
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Alabama lawyer Jim Porter, in line to become the next president of the National Rifle Association, is expected to spearhead the group's court challenges of gun-control laws enacted in several states since the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting massacre.
Porter, 64, the son of another Alabama lawyer who served as NRA president from 1959 to 1961, is likely to succeed David Keene on Monday in the two-year post at the nation's leading gun-rights organization.
The longtime member is chairman of the legal affairs committee for the NRA, which has headed off federal attempts to approve new gun ownership restrictions, including a U.S. Senate proposal last month for expanded background checks.
Porter told NRA members at their annual convention in Houston on Saturday that President Barack Obama was "AWOL" on border security, the deficit and national security, but "scheming and plotting" to take away Americans' gun rights.
More: http://news.yahoo.com/nras-next-president-lead-court-fights-against-gun-044247373.html;_ylt=AwrNUbDZn4ZRTn4AN0XQtDMD
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