Wildlife conservationists are outraged after a video released by the New Yorker and The Trace on Tuesday showed Wayne LaPierre, Jr., the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, and his wife fatally shooting two endangered elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Delta in 2013.
According to the outlets, they obtained a copy of the video, which was originally filmed for an NRA-sponsored television series but never aired due to public relations concerns.
In the ten-minute video, LaPierre can be seen shooting and wounding a savannah elephant his guides tracked for him. The video shows the N.R.A.
chief failing to kill the animal with three shots at point-blank range as the animal lies immobile on the ground. “After LaPierre’s first