Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – The National Rifle Association is in a double-barreled legal battle for its future, moving forward with its bankruptcy case while fighting accusations it only sought Chapter 11 protection to avoid a potentially crippling lawsuit.
Lawyers for the influential advocacy group told a federal judge Wednesday that the organization’s decision to declare bankruptcy, with plans to reincorporate in gun-friendly Texas, was not an attempt to dodge a lawsuit brought by the attorney general in New York, its current corporate home.
The NRA and New York attorney general’s office were set to tangle again Thursday before a New York judge over the lawsuit, the latest in a series of state regulatory challenges that spurred the organization’s pivot to bankruptcy.
Despite the bankruptcy filing the two sides are still expected to appear at a virtual motion hearing Thursday in the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Meantime, the NRA tweeted this image of US Senator Ted Cruz (R/TX) from the President Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday.
Sen. @TedCruz Sends Strong Message With Mask at Biden’s Inauguration 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/K3IsGitsCA
— NRA (@NRA) January 20, 2021
In 2015, Cruz launched a bid to become president of the gun rights group.
President Biden’s website lays his past and current actions on gun reform:
Get weapons of war off our streets.
- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
- Regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act
- Buy back the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines already in our communities
- Reduce stockpiling of weapons
