Monday's maneuvers seemed to end a weekend of controversy for the organization, which saw the opening of an investigation into the group as its key leaders engaged in a struggle for control.
Over the weekend, the conflict between North and LaPierre, the executive director and the executive vice president of the NRA, was brought to the attention of the public. North said in a letter read to RNA members Saturday that he had been "informed" that he would not be re-elected. Chairman of the Firearms Rights Group.
NRA official told CNN on Monday that LaPierre had been re-elected and Carolyn Meadows was elected president. The official added that the votes for both votes were unanimous and unopposed.
"United, we are," said LaPierre. "The ANR Board of Directors, our management team and our more than 5 million members will come together as never before to defend the constitutional freedoms of our country." The challenges ahead are our greatest Opportunities: Face our adversaries, defend the Association and continue our tradition of the world's largest civil rights organization. "
According to an NRA document from its 2018 annual meeting, Meadows was elected to the board of directors in 2003, among other roles within the NRA, and has long held positions within the Republican Party.
The NRA has named North – its name is synonymous with the Iran-Contra Reagan-era scandal – its president last year as it struggled with renewed pressure for arms control to take place. fire as a result of the shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida.
But as the group was meeting for its annual meeting last Friday, the news was announced that LaPierre, a long-time leader of the NRA and his public, had told the board of directors of the company that the company was not there. organization that he was extorted and that he was forced to resign by North.
LaPierre said he was refusing to step down, and North, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, told the council that he was forming a crisis committee to review the finances of the city. # 39; organization. The newspaper further reported that North had informed the executive committee of the board that LaPierre had charged more than $ 200,000 in wardrobe purchases to a supplier.
The next day, North told NRA members, in a letter read at the annual meeting, that he hoped to be renamed for a second term but had since been "informed that this would not happen".
In the midst of the controversy, the New York Attorney General's office confirmed that he had issued subpoenas as part of an open investigation into the NRA. On Monday, President Donald Trump sought to reprimand New York for sounding the NRA and accused the New York office and Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, of illegally trying to dismantle the gun rights group in New York. fire. Cuomo rejected Trump's request in a statement and said that the state was "not afraid to stand up to the NRA".
CNN's Devan Cole, Kate Sullivan and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.
