Ex-NRA head Wayne LaPierre and wife secretly turned an elephant they shot in Botswana into decor
Ex-NRA head Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly turned an elephant they shot in Botswana into home decor: report
Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly shipped elephant parts from their Botswana hunt to avoid public outcry.
Records obtained by The New Yorker showed Susan LaPierre requesting the shipment have no clear links to the couple.
Taxidermy records showed the parts were turned into home decor, like stools, an umbrella stand, and a trash can.
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An export company in Botswana emailed the couple to confirm the shipment of animal parts, which included one cape-buffalo skull, two sheets of elephant skin, two elephant ears, four elephant tusks, and four front elephant feet, according to The New Yorker report published Thursday.
Susan LaPierre later requested that the shipment should have no clear links to the couple, asking to use the name of an American taxidermist as "the consignee" and that the company "not use our names anywhere if at all possible," The New Yorker reported.
In one message sent by the taxidermist, who was not named in the report, to the shipping company, he explained that the LaPierre's "can not afford bad publicity and a out cry,"
which is "why they are trying not to have there names show up on these shipments so the information does not fall into the wrong hands," according to records obtained by the news outlet.
Susan LaPierre also noted that the couple expected to receive "an assortment of skulls and skins from warthogs, impalas, a zebra, and a hyena" in the shipment, according to the report.
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After Susan LaPierre killed an elephant in Botswana, video shows, she touched the creature’s feet and said, “A podiatrist would love working on him.”
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When I was in elementary school, one of the teachers' husbands was a trophy hunter who went to Africa every so often and killed whatever he could.
I was in their house once and almost fainted in horror at seeing the trophies, the most memorable of which was a wastebasket made out of an elephant's foot and part of its leg. 
I'd pay to see him and his wife's body parts used as a garbage can! 