Douglas Hamlin, the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) CEO, was involved in the gruesome torture and killing of a cat when he was a college fraternity member.

The house cat known as Bk had been captured, its paws were cut off, and it was then strung up and set on fire. The killing, which occurred in December 1979, was reportedly caused by anger that the cat was not using its litterbox.

Several local media outlets reported on the incident at the time, noting that Hamlin was the fraternity president at the time.

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Hamlin, who was elected by the NRA’s board to serve as chief executive officer in July, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty placed against him and four of his fraternity brothers back in 1980 as an undergraduate student...