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Holy Moses! Heston Next NRA President

Charlton Heston, the guy who parted the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments, has been tapped to be next president of the National Rifle Association.

Yup, Moses is packing heat.

Elected first vice president of the organization last year, Heston is No. 1 in line to be the Big Gun at the NRA and should officially be sworn in Monday at the annual meeting in Philadelphia.

The gun lobby is hoping the high-profile Heston can revamp its sagging image in the wake of several school shootings. (Earlier this week, gun control advocate and former Ronald Reagan aide James Brady wrote to the onetime Oscar winner asking that he support a campaign to ban kids from guns. "No more Jonesboros. No more Edinboros. No more Springfields. No more excuses," the letter read, referring to recent massacres.)

And the actor known for racing chariots in Ben-Hur and battling simians in Planet of the Apes says he's up for the challenge. He's already earmarked $5 million to reinstate the old "I'm the NRA" ad campaign, which will beginning popping up in magazines next week.

Just last month, Heston was ready to rumble with fellow Hollywood heavyweight Barbra Streisand over his beloved Second Amendment. He decried her TV film The Long Island Incident--a depiction of a real life gun-control activist--as an exploitative, anti-gun rant.

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