USA: Video exposes NRA chief in hunting incident
NRA chief Wayne LaPierre is one of the most influential lobbyists in the USA — and has been fighting against stricter gun laws for years.
A video kept secret for eight years is causing outrage and ridicule in the USA.
NRA chief fails at elephant hunt
The National Rifle Association (NRA) funded a trip to Africa for its executive director Wayne LaPierre in 2013, during which a promotional series was also filmed.The New Yorker and the non-governmental organisation Trace have now published unaired footage showing LaPierre attempting trophy hunting, trying to kill an elephant in Botswana — and failing to do so despite firing multiple shots.
LaPierre’s wife Susan: “Victory!”
Among other things, Susan LaPierre cuts off the tip of the slain animal’s tail and holds it up like a trophy, exclaiming: “Victory!”
The founder of the organisation Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, wrote on Twitter that the NRA chief had managed to turn both recreational hunters and gun owners against him, “because this is not only inhumane, but also because he is a terrible shot».
«No animal should suffer in this way”, said Tanya Sanerib of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Both took the feet of the slain elephant back to the USA as trophies; they are said to have been made into stools. To avoid attracting attention, the import was carried out secretly.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Psychology of recreational hunting we put research, motives and social consequences into perspective. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
