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Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 11:32 PM Jul 2021

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-nra-head-wayne-lapierre-and-his-wife-secretly-turned-an-elephant-they-shot-in-botswana-into-home-decor-report/ar-AAMIWgP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

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Ex-NRA head Wayne LaPierre and wife secretly turned an elephant they shot in Botswana into decor (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2021 OP
Psychopaths. madaboutharry Jul 2021 #1
Any surprise there? grumpyduck Jul 2021 #2
From the New Yorker: dalton99a Jul 2021 #3
What a couple of sick-ass fucks Blue Owl Jul 2021 #4
This MissB Jul 2021 #8
The loving couple, trumpsters, and probably worse. Hoyt Jul 2021 #5
this, warning though, it's graphic and disgusting Shellback Squid Jul 2021 #6
Cant watch it Demovictory9 Jul 2021 #13
Creep! frogmarch Jul 2021 #7
I'm sorry... JoeOtterbein Jul 2021 #9
He got tusks. I thought importing or selling ivory was illegal. 3Hotdogs Jul 2021 #10
I think it was legal for a brief moment under Trump. BlueLucy Jul 2021 #14
I hunted pheasants and ducks growing up DenaliDemocrat Jul 2021 #11
Same here. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2021 #12
As a hunter this makes my blood boil worse than perhaps anti hunters GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #15
Sick, sick, sick ... trophy hunters the lowest of the low 😠 Raine Jul 2021 #16
This is disgusting LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2021 #17
Four front elephant feet equals 2 elephants, not 1. scipan Jul 2021 #18

frogmarch

(12,144 posts)
7. Creep!
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 11:39 PM
Jul 2021

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.

DenaliDemocrat

(1,472 posts)
11. I hunted pheasants and ducks growing up
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:15 AM
Jul 2021

Shot quite a few deer too. We were poor and the extra meat was welcome.

This is simply murder

FoxNewsSucks

(10,375 posts)
12. Same here.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:19 AM
Jul 2021

Hunting for food is a far different thing than what Wayne ThePeter and Mrs ThePeter do.

I'd like to see the end result of their encounter with elephants without guns. It's what they deserve, and would improve the planet.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
15. As a hunter this makes my blood boil worse than perhaps anti hunters
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:49 AM
Jul 2021

I hunt whitetail deer in the south. To eat. I don’t trophy hunt although I don’t begrudge those who only shoot large bucks. But Does eat better and where I hunt there are no predators of deer and over population is a threat.

This dumbass motherfucker went to shoot an animal had no ability or reason to eat. One that is endangered. And did not have a clue how to it without causing the animal suffering.

The guide looked at each other and could you tell they thought he was a fucking rich tool. Even these Two hardened professional hunters could no longer stand the suffering he was causing this animal and had to dispatch the animal for him. No wonder that was never aired.

Got I hate this fucker. All hunters I know want a quick kill.

In my camp it’s all about getting the best meat in the world with no farm or slaughter house involved.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
16. Sick, sick, sick ... trophy hunters the lowest of the low 😠
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:54 AM
Jul 2021

I'd pay to see him and his wife's body parts used as a garbage can!

scipan

(2,295 posts)
18. Four front elephant feet equals 2 elephants, not 1.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 05:31 PM
Jul 2021

They make me sick. If I had a choice of either saving the life of an elephant or Wayne LaPierre, I would save the elephant without hesitation.

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