The NRA reelected Wayne LaPierre as CEO and Charles Cotton as President in an apparent effort to stick to the status quo amid calls for gun control.
The election results came at the end of the NRA’s annual summit, this year held in Houston.
“The NRA stands strong, safe and secure,” Cotton said after his reelection. “We have never been better positioned to protect the Second Amendment or lend our collective voices in support of important issues like school security.”
LaPierre said he was “honored to continue [his] work for the NRA, and to join [the] members in their campaign to promote responsible gun ownership and defend Second Amendment freedom for all law-abiding Americans.”
As reported by Just the News, LaPierre, who succeeded against a challenge from former Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West to win another term as executive vice president of the organization, also recognized the victims of the Uvalde, Texas school massacre, which has Washington Democrats calling for tougher gun-control legislation and the top Senate Republican, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell making an effort toward bipartisan legislation in response to the shooting.
LaPierre called for increased mental health services and action to ensure that schools are "more safe and secure."
