LaPierre defeated former Republican Rep. Allen West in a 54-1 vote to serve as the organization’s CEO and executive vice president, Bloomberg and Stephen Gutowski from firearm news site The Reload reported. A former NRA board member, West told Bloomberg earlier this month he was seeking to push back against the firearm group’s culture of “corruption, cronyism and nepotism,” but the only board member to vote for him Monday was reportedly Phil Journey, a Kansas judge who has sought to reform alleged financial mismanagement within the NRA.

Source: Forbes May 31, 2022 15:35 UTC