Wayne Lapierre Biography
Wayne Lapierre born Wayne Robert LaPierre, Jr. is an American author, goverment activist, guns right activist,and lobbyist since receiving his master’s degree in government.
As the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, Robert advocated armed guards for schools in response to the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas. He has been on the board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the American Conservative Union.
Wayne Lapierre Age
Wayne Robert LaPierre, Jr. was born on November 8, 1949 in Schenectady, New York, U.S. He is 68 years old as of 2018.
Wayne Lapierre Family
He is the eldest child of Hazel (Gordon) and Wayne Robert LaPierre, Sr. His father was an accountant for the local General Electric plant. His family moved to Roanoke, Virginia, when Robert was five years old, and was raised in the Roman Catholic church.
Wayne Lapierre Wife – Wayne Lapierre Married – Susan Lapierre
Lapierre is married to Susan Lapierre.
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He has served as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association (NRA) SINCE 1991. It is the largest gun rights and small arms industry advocacy organization in the United States. He joined the NRA in 1977 after working as a legislative aide to Democratic Virginia delegate and gun rights advocate Vic Thomas.
NRA contributions totaled $103 million in 2014 and his compensation was $985,885. NRA contributions totaled $95 million in 2015 . In that year, He received a $3.7 million “employee funded deferred compensation plan”, which was required by federal law, according to the NRA raising his total annual compensation to $5,110,985.
Wayne Lapierre Gun Control
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 which did result in the deaths of more than two dozen children and adults, he famously suggested that a “national database of lunatics” would do more to solve the country’s gun violence problem than banning the assault-style weapons so often used in such crimes. He supports;
- Increase of funds for a stricter and more efficient mental health system, and the reform of civil commitment laws to facilitate institutionalization of the mentally ill when necessary.
- Creation of a computerized universal mental health registry of those adjudicated to be legally incompetent, this is to help limit gun sales to the mentally ill.
- Increase in enforcement of federal laws against and confinement of violent gang members or felons with guns.
- Project Exile and similar programs that mandate severe sentences for all gun crimes, especially illegally possessing it. He stated, “By prosecuting them, they prevent the drug dealer, the gang member, and the felon from committing the next crime.
- He also supports the bans on fully automatic firearms
Wayne Lapierre Military Service
There is no public record or published mention of LaPierre ever having served in the military. Various queries to the NRA public affairs office concerning Mr. LaPierre’s military service went unanswered.
Wayne Lapierre Books
- 2011- America Disarmed: Inside the U. N. and Obama’s Scheme to Destroy the Second Amendment
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Wayne LaPierre@nra.org
Wayne Lapierre Website
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Wayne Lapierre Salary
Most recently, LaPierre received an annual salary of roughly $1 million from the NRA. In some previous years, he has earned far more. In 2015, he received $5,051,249 and $1,422,339 in 2016.
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Wayne Lapierre Transcript On Face The Nation
JOHN DICKERSON: Joining us now is the executive vice-president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre. Welcome.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Thank you, John.
JOHN DICKERSON: Senator Feinstein wants legislation to ban bump fire stocks. What’s the N.R.A. position on that?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: You know, can I say first that this has been a tragic week. I mean, we had N.R.A. members out there in the middle of that tragedy. We had N.R.A. families. We had families wounded out there. It’s just been horrible. But to the people that are trying to politicize this tragedy, I would say this. There are monsters like this monster out there every day.
There are menaces out there every day. People want to be able to protect themselves. That’s why they support this freedom. All the elites that have been speaking out this past week, they all want to protect themselves. They all protect themselves with armed security. I mean, they criticize the N.R.A. You want to talk about irresponsible use of firearms?
The number one person teaching irresponsible use of firearms is all these elites’ employer, the Hollywood, television, gaming industry. We spend millions teaching responsible use of firearms. They make billions every single day, John, teaching irresponsible use of firearms. They’re so hypocritical it’s unbelievable.
JOHN DICKERSON: But is it really an elite position for a person to think if there is evil in the world perhaps there should be something that makes it a little harder for the evil person to get their hand on something that can fire bullets with such rapidity and then bump fire stocks, which it make available to fire even faster? That’s not elite. That’s just somebody trying to figure out how to have less people be dead.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Well, I do think this. I mean, if we could legislate morality, we would have done it long ago. I mean, as we talked before, Paris wouldn’t have happened. They outlaw fully automatic guns. Brussels. San Bernardino. California has every gun law under the sun. It still happens. I mean, the bad people could care. But on bump stocks let me say this.
The fact is that the Obama administration a couple years ago legalized a device, their A.T.F., that fuzzed the line between semiautomatics and fully automatics. And if we’re able to fuzz that line, all semiautomatics are at risk. I’ve been arguing with Dianne Feinstein for years. She’s been trying to ban semiautos, saying a semiauto’s a semiauto. It’s not an assault weapon like you say, Dianne Feinstein. And it’s not a machine gun.
JOHN DICKERSON: But in–
WAYNE LAPIERRE: If you fuzz the line, they’re all at risk. And we’re not going to let that happen.
JOHN DICKERSON: Well, let’s not fuzz the line. She says this specific piece of legislation just bans bump fire stocks. So does the N.R.A. support that or no?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: It’s illegal to convert a semiautomatic to a fully automatic. A.T.F. needs to do its job. They need to look at this and do its job.
JOHN DICKERSON: Her argument is and the A.T.F.’s is they can’t rule on this. It’s out of their purview. That it has to be done in legislation. So is the N.R.A. position it can be done through legislation or you oppose it? Where are you on this?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: No, we think A.T.F. ought to do its job, look at this, and draw a bright line.
JOHN DICKERSON: If I’m a Republican and I’m a fan of the N.R.A., do I want to say no or yes to legislation that does this?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: I think you want to tell A.T.F. to do its job. It’s an interpretive issue, and they need to get the job done. But not let Dianne Feinstein, which is what she wants to do, turn this all into some Christmas tree on the hill where she brings all her anti-gun–
JOHN DICKERSON: Well–
WAYNE LAPIERRE: –circus she’s been trying to do for years into this.
JOHN DICKERSON: Here’s the–
WAYNE LAPIERRE: I mean–
JOHN DICKERSON: Here is the problem people have with the N.R.A., is they hear you say that. And basically they say, “What Mr. LaPierre is trying to do is tell any gun owner that any measure to regulate guns of any kind is really an effort to take their guns away.” Therefore they should be fearful, that you’re basically trying to scare them.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: We have all kinds of gun laws on the books right now, John. We don’t enforce any of them. If somebody wanted to do something about Chicago, enforce the federal gun laws right now. If a felon touches a gun, five years in prison. Drug dealer, 10 to 20. Criminal gang member, 10 to 20. I mean, Dianne Feinstein, universal checks she’s been talking about this last week. There is not a gang member in Chicago that’s going, “Hey, I’m going to get you. But first I have to go through Dianne Feinstein’s background check.”
JOHN DICKERSON: Let me ask you this.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: It’s nonsense.
JOHN DICKERSON: Stepping back, is the N.R.A. position that you’re okay with the current restrictions against fully automatic?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: We have supported the existing law on fully automatic firearms. And what we don’t want is we don’t want the line to be fuzzed. Because if you fuzz the line, you’re putting every semiautomatic firearm for years. And I have corrected Diane Feinstein over, and over, and over when she says, “Assault weapons, they’re fully automatic guns.” I said they’re not. But if somebody fuzzes the line, you’re putting every semiautomatic firearm at risk.
JOHN DICKERSON: But to be fair to Senator Feinstein, she didn’t fuzz the line in the conversation we just had.
She, was actually, perhaps because over the years you have come out on the winning end of these arguments, said that this only deals with this one specific bump fire stock. So in this case the line is not being fuzzed.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Well, I mean, the fact is the bump stock does fuzz the line though. And that’s why A.T.F. needs to do its job. But we really need to get back. I mean, if we’re going to do something, let’s do something meaningful. I mean, the outrage they’re trying to stir against the N.R.A. they ought to be stirring against the mental health system, which has completely collapsed.
All the police officers know it. They’re back on the streets. We’ve dumped it on the police officers. We ought to enforce the federal gun laws and do something about our criminal justice system, which is catch and release. Places like D.C. are second-chance cities. Well, the second chance is taken out against the good guys.
JOHN DICKERSON: Have you talked to President Trump about any of this?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: You know, I have not. I think some people in NRA have talked to the administration, but we have let him know where we stand. But it comes down to at 2:00 a.m. if your glass breaks in the middle of the night, there’s not a government authority on the planet that substitutes for your right to own a firearm. People want to be able to protect themselves when they cross a state line. That’s why we’re fighting for reciprocity. It’s about the good guys protecting themselves.
JOHN DICKERSON: Let me ask you about reciprocity. Federalism suggests the states should make their laws. 32 states I think have said they don’t want reciprocity. Why should the federal government come in and tell the states what to do?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Well, 42 states now have good carry laws. And the fact is I don’t think those states have a problem with their folks protecting themselves when they cross a state line. Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands. And the fact is we don’t want the honest people crossing a state line, somebody that ought to be in jail inflicting evil on them, and then the honest person going, “Oh no. Not me.” That’s their last words.
JOHN DICKERSON: People from the other side see this, and they say, “Why is it so easy to get very lethal weapons?” Is that just the price of freedom in your view?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Criminals could care less. I mean, you know, accessibility is about accessibility for the good guys. That’s what the second amendment’s all about. And as I’ve said all along, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
JOHN DICKERSON: But in this case, no good guys with a gun, I mean, you had members of the band saying if they pulled out their weapons they worried they’d get shot.
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Well, I’ll tell you. In Las Vegas the first thing I heard people say when they sheltered in place is somebody said, “Hey, do you want a gun?” I mean, “Does anybody have a gun?”
JOHN DICKERSON: So is your view it would have helped in Las Vegas?
WAYNE LAPIERRE: Finally good guys with guns got there. I mean, the guy killed himself first, but thank God there were good guys with guns on the way. I mean, Dianne Feinstein wants this utopian world without guns. She said, “If I could go door to door and pick them all up, I would.” But the fact is in that utopian world every time bad happens, evil happens, it’s good guys with guns that stop it.
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