There’s a shake-up happening within the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to multiple reports, NRA president Oliver North announced on Saturday, April 27 that he will not seek a second term as the leader of the gun rights group. Elite…
There’s a shake-up happening within the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to multiple reports, NRA president Oliver North announced on Saturday, April 27 that he will not seek a second term as the leader of the gun rights group. Elite Daily reached out to the NRA for comment on his resignation, but did not hear back by the time of publication. It’s a move that people can’t stop talking about, from anti-gun-violence activists to school-shooting survivors, and many of the tweets about Oliver North resigning as NRA president are going in about how this turmoil could be a bad sign for gun rights organization.
But first, let’s talk more about North’s resignation, which comes amid a reported internal struggle over the direction of the NRA. North is widely known as the prominent figure of the 1986 Iran-contra affair (He was convicted of «destroying government documents, accepting an illegal gratuity, and aiding and abetting in the obstruction of Congress» in 1989 but had them overturned two years later in 1991, per The New York Times). Since then, he’s had close to ties to the NRA but had been apparently having some issues with NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, according to an April 26 report from The New York Times. LaPierre reportedly wrote in a letter to the NRA, which was obtained by the Times, that North had been extorting him, accusing North of trying to force his resignation over allegations of financial misdeeds. North, on the other hand, said he had the NRA’s «best interests» in mind and was creating a crisis committee to look into the NRA’s financial matters, per The Hill. The NRA did not respond to Elite Daily’s request for comment on LaPierre’s letter.
But something happened between then and April 27.
