Within hours of a Texas federal judge’s dismissal of the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case—part of an effort to get the organization out of New York State and re-established in the Lone Star State—a billionaire-backed gun prohibition group in Seattle was calling it a “HUGE blow to the already-beleaguered NRA.” The Alliance for Gun Responsibility […]
BREAKING: NRA Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Plans Texas Reorganization
The embattled National Rifle Association announced Friday it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division and will reorganize the association as a nonprofit in the Lone Star State. The announcement came in a message posted at the NRA’s website in which […]
NY, DC Lawsuits Filed Against NRA: Election Season Attack?
The National Rifle Association was hit Thursday with two suspiciously-timed civil lawsuits, one seeking to dissolve the organization and the other an effort to impose new governance policies on the NRA Foundation, just 90 days before the November election. It’s a period when the NRA traditionally needs to be at the top of its game, […]
NRA Sues San Francisco over ‘Terrorist Organization’ Resolution
The National Rifle Association just slapped the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the city and county of San Francisco with a federal lawsuit after the Board unanimously adopted a resolution declaring the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization” and urging others to do likewise. In a statement on Twitter, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre […]
D.C. Attorney General Subpoenas NRA, NRA Foundation
UPDATED: The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Friday issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and the NRA Foundation in what Newsweek called “a series of ongoing probes into the gun-rights group and its finances.” According to the Washington Post, “The office of Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking financial documents from the NRA […]
Trump Tweets to Defense of NRA, Rips NY AG over ‘Harassment’
President Donald Trump, who likely owes much of his 2016 victory to the National Rifle Association, came to the defense of the embattled organization Tuesday with an early morning twitter statement about NRA’s current troubles with the State of New York, where the organization is incorporated. “People are fleeing New York like never before,” the […]