NRA Wins Supreme Court Decision in NRA v Vullo

On May 11, 2018, over six years ago, the National Rifle Association (NRA) filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging the Government of New York violated the organization’s First Amendment rights by coercing third parties, particularly insurance companies and banks, to cease to do business with the NRA. The government officials explicitly stated their dislike of the advocacy of the NRA to promote gun ownership and the Second Amendment. The opinion was issued on May 30, 2024. The ruling was expected, as explained in a previous AmmoLand article.

The case was relatively clear. Government officials Andrew Cuomo (Governor) and Maria Vullo (Superintendent of the New York State (NYS) Department of Financial Services) had made on the record statements to regulated entities to the effect that if they continued to do business with the NRA, the regulatory power of NYS would be used to punish them. The case was so egregious the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), long an opponent of the NRA and the Second Amendment, filed an amicus brief in favor of the NRA. The New York district court found Vullo had misused her power. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sided with the New York State Government.

The Supreme Court decided to hear the case. Oral arguments were heard on March 18, 2024. The Supreme Court issued its ruling on May 30, 2024. It was a unanimous opinion, 9-0, in favor of the NRA and the First Amendment.

Thank you for referencing that article marktwain.

"NRA Wins Supreme Court Decision in NRA v Vullo"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Beware of unnecessary visits to the Supreme Court. Despite NRA Supreme Court victory, the problem remains that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress is not doing its job to make 14th Amendment-based laws that discourage corrupt state governments from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, 2nd Amendment protections in this example.

Excerpted from 14th Amendment (14A):

"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

In fact, when Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 above, read the Bill of Rights as main examples of constitutionally enumerated protections that 14A applies to the states, he included the 2nd Amendment.

“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe

Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new patriot Congress in November, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term in office, the new Congress also doing its 14A duty to make laws to discourage abridgment of constitutionally enumerated rights by renegade states.

As a check and balance against tyranny, this decision is outstanding.

It acts as a fatal blow against fascism, where private companies are coerced by government to carry out the illegal diktats of government.

This will create the legal basis to go after federal fascists who demanded that social media companies censor the views of conservatives.

States need their legislatures to codify this decision into law in order to arrest and prosecute federal bureaucrats under state law. The law would fit well into the state’s anti-klan laws, allowing states to legally declare federal bureaucrats as terrorists.

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