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At the White House Correspondents Dinner Conan O'Brien asked...
...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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At the White House Correspondents Dinner Conan O'Brien asked... (Original Post)
ellisonz
May 2013
OP
NRA formally/openly adopts KKK platform. Big Jim is a perfect front man for gun culture.
Hoyt
May 2013
#3
flamingdem
(39,918 posts)1. I wonder if he'll add the confederate flag pin next nt
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)2. I wonder if he doesn't have it tattooed on his derriere. n/t
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. NRA formally/openly adopts KKK platform. Big Jim is a perfect front man for gun culture.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)4. My nickname for him would be hidden if I wrote it here, so here's an obscene picture for him:
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)5. It's a sick gun culture.
My parents have photos of me doing that with a 1.5 liter soda bottle.
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)6. I'm going to throw this out there: how about "Porky"