ACTOR ELECTED TO NRA BOARD.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Swarmed by autograph seekers and admirers, actor Charlton Heston easily won a National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. board election Saturday, a key test for the gun lobby's embattled em·bat·tled adj. 1. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city. 2. leadership. Heston is a key supporter of the NRA's top administrator, Executive Vice President Wayne R. LaPierre Jr., who nearly lost his job at a board meeting in February and whom Heston is trying to keep in office. Heston, 72, worked the aisles like a veteran politician at the NRA's annual convention. Heston said he is eager to heal wounds within the NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting and also will seek access to members of Congress. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Charlton Heston Backs gun lobby executive |
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