The National Rifle Association’s future former leader is suffering from several cognitive issues including the effects of long-term Lyme disease and a “family history of dementia,” according to court filings from his lawyer in the organization’s civil corruption trial in New York, reports Business Insider.
According to doctors’ reports included with the filing, Wayne LaPierre suffers from “significant cerebral volume loss” which has resulted in “cognitive decline,” according to his internal medicine doctor, who noted, “Mr. LaPierre’s health has been slowly deteriorating these last few years.”
Scheduled to step down from his position later this month, LaPierre was cognizant enough to pen a column for the NRA website last week about the importance of guns for maintaining the American right to own guns.