National Rifle Association One Step Closer To Dissolution
More good news. From National Public Radio:A federal bankruptcy judge dismissed an effort by the National Rifle Association to declare bankruptcy on Tuesday, ruling that the gun rights group had not filed the case in good faith.
The ruling slams the door on the NRA’s attempt to use bankruptcy laws to evade New York officials seeking to dissolve the organization. In his decision, the federal judge said that “using this bankruptcy case to address a regulatory enforcement problem” was not a permitted use of bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy trial had paused other legal challenges the NRA had been facing, but this decision returns the group to its confrontation with the New York attorney general, who is seeking to shut it down over alleged “fraud and abuse.”
“The @NRA does not get to dictate if and where it will answer for its actions, and our case will continue in New York court,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a tweet after the ruling. “We sued the NRA to put an end to its fraud and abuse, and now we will continue our work to hold the organization accountable.”
The NRA is among the most loathsome organizations in the United States, insofar as it has effectively thwarted all attempts to impose even the mildest of gun regulation. Mass shootings are so common here at this point that most of them don’t even make the national news. There were a total of nine last weekend.
Through its vast lobbying efforts, the NRA has made it impossible for the subject of gun legislature to make it to the floor of either house of Congress, even something a minor as requiring background checks for prospective gun owners, a proposition favored by 91% of Americans–that’s 10 out of 11.
Pictured above are the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Our children getting mowed down, and there is not a goddamn thing we can do about it.
Eliminating this cancer on U.S. society will be one of the best things that’s happened here in living memory.
