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The National Rifle Association is suffering grave financial harm that threatens its ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of a “blacklisting” campaign by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators, the gun rights group said in a federal lawsuit.

In an amended version of a federal lawsuit filed in May, the Virginia-based NRA said it lost insurance coverage after the state’s enforcement actions against companies underwriting an NRA-branded insurance program called Carry Guard. It said the Cuomo administration was persuading other insurers to avoid doing business with the NRA.

Without liability coverage, the NRA said it can’t maintain its offices, operate educational programs or hold rallies and other political events.

The amended complaint was filed in late July in federal court in northern New York. It names the Democratic governor along with the state Department of Financial Services and its superintendent, Maria Vullo, as defendants.

Cuomo said late Friday the state is filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. “New York will not be intimidated by the NRA’s frivolous lawsuit to advance its dangerous gun-peddling agenda,” he said.

Cuomo added, “If I could have put the NRA out of business, I would have done it 20 years ago.”

The lawsuit said “back-channel communications” by the Cuomo administration “made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad business in New York to do business with the NRA.” As a result, it said multiple financial institutions have entered into consent orders that compel them to end longstanding business relationships with the NRA in New York and elsewhere.

“Absent injunctive relief, defendants’ blacklisting campaign will continue to damage the NRA and its members, as well as endanger the free speech and association rights guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States and the State of New York,” the lawsuit said.

“The actions of defendants are a blatant attack on the First Amendment rights of our organization,” William A. Brewer III, an attorney representing the NRA, said in a statement on Friday.

The lawsuit asks the court to have the Cuomo administration stop its practices against the NRA.

In addition to various communications between Vullo and financial institutions at Cuomo’s direction, the lawsuit referenced an April 20 tweet by Cuomo: “The NRA is an extremist organization. I urge companies in New York state to revisit any ties they have to the NRA and consider their reputations, and responsibility to the public.”

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"Failure cascade."

One failure causes another and another and another, until the whole structure fails.

Leftists have engineered a failure cascade for themselves. This is one of the most stunning failures so far.https://t.co/3LA9TOESr3— Carlos Osweda (@COsweda) August 6, 2020

She accuses the LEADERSHIP of malfeasance. The AP article APPEARS to be factually incorrect.
Membership is apparently higher than it's ever been, according to Pew Research.

https://t.co/66vAsxXU7z— Carlos Osweda (@COsweda) August 6, 2020

Trying to DISSOLVE the NRA even if the allegations made against the leadership are true will backfire in a way that Letitia James is obviously not anticipating.
The problems for her are manifold.
This move comes at a time when leftist activists have lost interest in the NRA.
Also, she choose the WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT to attack gun ownership.
Finally, this is a transparent attack on conservatives, as everybody can see.
She's trying to take out the nation's most powerful advocates for the Second Amendment.
Regardless of the validity of the charges, Americans will see this as yet ANOTHER attempt to bolster the current mania for defunding and abolishing the police and allowing deranged Brownshirts to run wild in our cities.
James has openly politicized the office of the New York attorney general.
One of her campaign promises was to look for crimes for which she could charge Trump.
"Show me the man, and I'll find you the crime."
--Lavrentiy Beria Chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Everything the AP article says about the NRA leadership actually describes leftist politicians and high-ranking law-enforcement officials.
"James, a Democrat, argued that the organization’s prominence and cozy political relationships had lulled it into a sense of invincibility and enabled a culture where non-profit rules were routinely flouted and state and federal laws were violated."
Here's the crux of the matter:
NOBODY HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH A CRIME.
The lawsuit simply seeks to abolish the NRA.
Pretty straightforward that this is purely political.
BUT.
It couldn't have come at a worse time for the Democrats.
Who is totally under siege on all levels--physically, psychologically, legally, socially, politically, academically, and artistically?
Trump supporters.
How can we stop it?
By reelecting Trump.The sheer insanity of attacking this relentlessly us WHEN WE HAVE AN EASY OUT is almost incomprehensible.
But I learned from my communist brother that leftists are not thinking.
They're simply following their script.
You know what it's like?
The opening stages of World War One.
The French answer to everything was the bayonet charge.
Here's the uniform they wore.
The French carried out bayonet charges against German machine-gun positions, wearing red pants.
Guess what happened?
They got mowed down before they could even get close.
A member of parliament wondered if maybe wearing red pants wasn't a good idea.
"THE RED PANTS ARE FRANCE!" shouted another parliamentarian to thunderous applause and cheering.
Within a few months, they adopted a new uniform.
It blended in well with the smoke and fog.
In this election cycle, leftists went from red pants to THIS:
Trump is a SORCEROR.
All the deep-blue coastal states are campaigning for him nonstop.
So are the battleground states run by Democrats.
I applaud their efforts. There's only one outcome to this madness.
#Trump2020Landslide

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