reported hearing cries and sobs

Current members include former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and actors Tom Selleck and Whoopi Goldberg. The late actor Charlton Heston was president of the NRA between 1998 and 2003. Heston famously held a rifle over his head at an NRA convention following the Columbine High School mass shooting in 1999, telling gun control advocates they would have to take it "from my cold, dead hands".