FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2013, file photo National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington about gun violence. For decades, LaPierre, 63, has been serving up heated us-vs.-them rhetoric to rally the NRA faithful. Usually it works; sometimes it backfires. He has had a surprisingly long run as the NRA's executive vice president, surviving insider plots along the way, LaPierre remains the hero to many a gun lover, and villain to the opposing forces. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, pauses as he speaks about the Newton, Conn., school shooting in Washington. In the weeks since Newtown, LaPierre has been the ever-present public face of gun rights forces, shuttling between speeches, hearing rooms and TV studios to forcefully reject proposals for tighter gun controls as misguided ideas that will do nothing to stop criminals and everything to tangle law-abiding citizens in a bureaucratic nightmare. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - In this April 14, 2012, file photo, Wayne LaPierre Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Rifle Association speaks at its members annual meeting during its national convention in St. Louis. LaPierre, 63, has been serving up heated us-vs.-them rhetoric to rally the NRA faithful. Usually it works; sometimes it backfires. He has had a surprisingly long run surviving insider plots along the way, and remains the hero to many a gun lover, and villain to the opposing forces. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wayne LaPierre would just as soon read a book as fire a gun. That’s right, the National Rifle Association’s fire-breathing defender of gun rights is more academic than marksman. “A policy wonk,” says Joseph Tartaro, president of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation. …
