head of the national rifle association, wayne lapierre, officially resigned from his post. lapierre, the organization's executive vice president, said he would continue to defend the second amendment, and that his, quote, passion for the cause burns as deeply as ever. during his decades long reign over the prominent guns rights group, lapierre gave somewhat of a reputation for himself as a survivor, joking wave after wave of scandal from, accusations of corruption at the highest levels of the organization, to embarrassing personal revelations, we lapierre always seem to hang on in the. and there was the tale of an ill-fated hunting trip in africa where lapierre, the man at the top of a guns advocacy ou put his poor marksmanship on display. a leaked video of an encounter wi aelephant showed lapierre unable to shoot the animal at point blank range, missing the intended target not once, not twice, but a total of three times. according to vanity fair,