NRA Secretary and General Counsel John Frazer informed the organization's board and executive council of the move Tuesday evening, according to a copy of his e-mail that was obtained by Newsweek.
The mid-September conference, the first time the NRA's board of directors will convene since the annual meeting in April, was set to take place in Anchorage, Alaska, until plans were scrapped in favor of a more politically-minded approach. The board's previous meeting in April thrust the turmoil plaguing the NRA's internal governance into plain view with the ouster of Lt. Col. Oliver North, then the NRA's president.
"This decision was made after careful consideration. As you know, our duty to protect our Second Amendment comes above all else and the NRA is the only organization that can carry out that mission," Frazer continued."As details of the congressional schedule were revealed today, it became apparent that a fight of historic proportions is going to begin during the time when we would have been in Alaska.
Cox was pushed out after the NRA accused him, in a legal filing submitted as part of an ongoing lawsuit against North, of helping to instigate a coup against LaPierre. David Lehman, Cox's deputy, left the NRA's lobbying arm last week.
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