<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; font-size: 18px; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 1.33em; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; -webkit-hyphens: manual; ">CHOKING BACK TEARS, N.R.A. LEADER MARRIES GUN</h1><p><img alt="nra-valentine.jpg" width="233" height="350" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="923824a8-a6b6-4999-baff-846eeef05e19" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9642FF90-3963-4B75-92B9-F4E31DDFA307@att.net"></p><p><b>WASHINGTON</b> —In what he called “the happiest day of my life,” National Rifle Association C.E.O. Wayne LaPierre marked Valentine’s Day by marrying his longtime gun, an AK-47 assault rifle.</p><p>Mr. LaPierre grew emotional as he reminisced about meeting the firearm at a gun show in Alabama in 1991.</p><div><p>“The chemistry between us was amazing,” he said. “Our first weekend together, all we did was shoot.”</p><p>Marriage between a human and a gun is not legal in most states, a situation that Mr. LaPierre bemoans: “For a lot of N.R.A. members it’s the only intimate relationship they’re capable of.”</p><p>The wedding ceremony was attended by twenty-five of Mr. LaPierre’s guns and over two hundred members of Congress.</p><p><br></p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></body></html>