After dozens were killed at two mass school shootings in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the ensuing public outrage put him in so much danger that he had to take shelter — specifically, on a friend's 108-foot yacht.
"I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting," LaPierre said in a deposition filed during the weekend. "And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, 'Thank God I'm safe, nobody can get me here.'"
The deposition, which emerged as part of a closely watched bankruptcy hearing for the NRA in Dallas this week, noted that LaPierre had used the vessel for a "security retreat" multiple times between 2013 and 2018.
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