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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP claims lawsuit over NRA's 'fraud and abuse' is an attack on gun rights
By Josh Israel -August 7, 2020 4:45 PM
Republicans are not addressing the allegations of fraud levied against the gun group.
Republican lawmakers are calling a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday against the National Rifle Association an attack on gun ownership while ignoring the charges of "fraud and abuse" contained in the filing.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise tweeted in response to the suit: "Violent crime is skyrocketing in NYC. What's New York's Democrat Attorney General focused on? Launching politically motivated attacks against the Second Amendment & NRA. Make no mistake: Making it harder for law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is the far-left's agenda."
James' suit seeks to dissolve the organization and ban its officers from serving on nonprofit boards in the future.
The attorney general's 18-month investigation uncovered millions of dollars in spending on personal trips for NRA executives,
no-show contracts, and even organizational money going to pay for hair and makeup for the wife of chief executive Wayne LaPierre.
https://americanindependent.com/gop-nra-lawsuit-guns-rights-second-amendment-national-rifle-association-new-york/
What happened to 64 million dollars......I know buy a yacht.......it was reported that there is a 108 foot yacht going down to the Bahamas, with two jet skies, and jet boat the yachts name is the Illusions how appropriate ...........or how about spending $17,500 for 8 night's not including the buffet menu specials........
I just wonder if these yahoos went for a ride on the ship, on the taxpayers dime..................
Illusions............
https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-36386/illusions-photos.htm
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GOP claims lawsuit over NRA's 'fraud and abuse' is an attack on gun rights (Original Post)
turbinetree
Aug 2020
OP
LOTS of swing voters are only going to hear "gun grab". Nuance escapes them.
BamaRefugee
Aug 2020
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louis-t
(23,273 posts)1. Let's let NRA members decide. Dump Wayne on the street among 1,000 members.
He has some 'splainin' to do.
sdfernando
(4,927 posts)2. Bullpuckey!
My right to own or not own a fire arm has nothing to do with the NRA and would continue to exist were the NRA to be dissolved....Indeed that right existed and was practiced LOOOOONNNNNGGGG before the NRA even existed.
peggysue2
(10,825 posts)3. It's also an attack on all that 'secret funding'
to the GOP and money laundering for the Russians. You cannot make this stuff up. Or maybe you could in a novel about crime syndicates and politics converging in the biggest heist in history.
These Republicans are shameless, soulless and need to be obliterated.
AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)4. nonsenical . its about theft of funds .
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)5. LOTS of swing voters are only going to hear "gun grab". Nuance escapes them.
And this will be echoed, louder and louder, ad nauseum, til Election Day.