The NRA has suspended Steve Hart, its longtime top lawyer, in just the latest sign of the infighting that is splintering the group.

According to the Daily Beast, Hart was suspended before Lt. Col. Oliver North announced Saturday that he would not serve a second term as NRA president.

The gun rights group has been imploding all week, with CEO Wayne LaPierre claiming that North is extorting him, a legal skirmish breaking out between the NRA and its advertising vendor and North’s dire warnings about the organization’s financial leadership.