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NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member

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Douglas Hamlin pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty brought against him and four of his fraternity brothers in 1980 , when he was an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor .

Hamlin was elected by the NRA ’s board to serve as CEO in July .

The details of the case, described in local media reports at the time, are gruesome.

The house cat was captured, its paws were cut off, and was then strung up and set on fire.

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