Could NRA Members Intervene To Stop NY Suit To Dissolve The NRA?

[deadin]

. The State of New York is asking for the revocation of the state charter, that is, for a dissolution of the organization.

What's to stop them from organizing in a different State? (Less WLP)

 

[AlexanderA]

What's to stop them from organizing in a different State? (Less WLP)

Then it would be a different organization, same as starting from scratch. The charter is the organization's founding document. You set up a corporate charter, that is registered with a state, and vote in a set of bylaws.

 

[alsaqr]

Time for intervention by members of the NRA may have passed. The New York AG subpoenaed 90 current and former members of the board, employees and members of the leadership. Those folks have been deposed: The AG has their answers.

Depending of the judge, this could go fast.

 

[ilbob]

Time for intervention by members of the NRA may have passed. The New York AG subpoenaed 90 current and former members of the board, employees and members of the leadership. Those folks have been deposed: The AG has their answers.

Depending of the judge, this could go fast.

I doubt that any judge is going to dissolve a huge organization like this real quick.

It will be interesting to see what transpires though.

I am hopeful that a group of members gets together and tries to fix what is wrong with the NRA.

 

[natman]

The American Civil Liberties Union has recognized that this is a political ploy by the New York Attorney General to silence the National Rifle Association over NRAs advocacy of its points of view, POVs that the NYAG personally hates and wants to silence. ACLU sees that as a threat to all advocacy groups including ACLU and has come out in opposition to what the NYAG and NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has advocated: destruction of the NRA for questioning gun control and advocating gun rights.

The ACLU is right, because that's exactly what this is.

Do you have a citation for the ACLU commenting on this current case?

 

[ilbob]

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/new-york-state-cant-be-allowed-stifle-nras-political-speech

New York State Can’t Be Allowed to Stifle the NRA’s Political Speech

 

[23tony]

That would be fine, but how could it be done? WLP et al. have embedded themselves in such a way that they cannot be removed. Any Board member or executive that tries it will be removed himself (see: Oliver North, Chris Cox, etc.).

As I understand what's being proposed here, it would result in forcing his removal. But from the last couple of posts it looks like it may be too late for that now.

 

[alsaqr]

The ACLU blog at the link is dated 24 August 2018: Well before the NY AG lunched her complaint and well before the NRA train wreck.

 

[DoubleMag]

If the NYAG is successful in silencing NRA, does anyone believe a Democrat White House and Congress will leave SAF, GOA, and other Second Amendment People alone to advocate for gun rights and against gun control?

Crickets Patrol on-going here, now!

I think a lot of people in the gun community don't get a lot of things at the NRA does that don't get a lot of publicity. The NRA runs a lot of gun safety classes and competitions. There's also the...

I was listening to some other guys discuss this and a guy from Ohio (I think) made a good point. In his state the only way to be able to teach a CCW class is to either be a NRA certified instructor or a State Patrol instructor. Take away the NRA and you are left with a dozen instructors or so...

These two posts highlight in fact what the NRA COULD BE doing to STOP NY from their shenanigans. And let no one be confused, NRA yea, or NRA Hater, these ARE political shenanigans. What is it that could be done? The NRA is THE premier training organization for both civilian and police agencies. What I am suggesting is not a stretch of possibility. ALL THAT HAS TO HAPPEN is, the NRA revokes ALL NY Police Dept training certs, and, forbids anyone to teach or train under auspices of NRA training. Any & all things NRA; which is, 3 safety rules, qualification courses that ''resemble'' established NRA courses, etc. Effectively, all the NY departments training books & manuals become historical data.
This potentially STOPS any sworn officer from carrying a firearms unless accepting at the local department level and perhaps even the individual officer level extreme liability.

NO doctor, you cannot practice medicine here, your certifications have been revoked.

We are moving away from the OP's suggestion and into a general NRA discussion. We tend to frown on those because they become contentious and folks resort to personal insults rather quickly. Return to the proposition, if you would please. We don't do liberal vs conservatives, for example.

Well, perhaps, I just refocused the discussion then

 

[Ernie Bass]

Come on Folks, we all know darn well what Latifa Jones is all about. Just another example of Abuse of Power in Office and wanting to destroy the NRA because of personal and political crap. Gun owners across this Country that believe in the 2nd amendment should do every thing they can to legally stop this ongoing Crap. The enemy is NOT the NRA!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

First thought, a New York judge ignoring the concerns of the ACLU about this?

Second thought. If the NRA is reorganized, ideally the top positions would have term limits.
I remember Ashley Halsey Jr, Charlton Heston, tho' figure heads, conducted themselves more as one of us than Wayne Lapierre has. Lapierre has to me appeared tone deaf. And Halsey and Heston did not wear out their welcome with the membership.

 

[Jack B.]

Too much thinking going on here. The NRA is the only organization that defends our rights (that I know of) weather you like or don't like who's running the show. The alternative is disastrous . Vote.

 

[GEM]

I think this has run its course.