With Washington lawmakers still debating gun-control measures, the politically powerful National Rifle Association elected as its next president an Alabama lawyer who last year called Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. "rabidly un-American."

James "Jim" Porter II, a special assistant attorney general for Alabama, will take over leadership during the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston, which included speeches May 3 by Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

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