The NRA has had more than its fair share of controversy over the last few years.
Sure, they’ve been a lightning rod for anti-2A rhetoric as anti-2A activists in politics and the legacy mainstream media kept pushing the narrative that the National Rifle Association was the focal point of all pro-2A efforts.
Never mind that that isn’t the case at all. There are a number of excellent pro-2A organizations on both national and state levels.
But the truth never seems to stop anti-2A zealots from pushing a convenient lie to push an agenda. I digress, though…
The NRA, with all of its difficulties over the last several years, may finally be turning a corner as they’ve settled one of the most difficult lawsuits that they’ve been working through. Michael Clements writes,
The National Rifle Association (NRA) and the New York attorney general’s office have agreed to more than a dozen reforms the NRA must implement and to two former NRA officials paying more than $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought in 2020.
Both sides hailed the settlement as vindication of their respective positions.
“For decades, the NRA let self-interested and self-dealing insiders run the organization with complete disregard for the rule of law,” New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote in a statement on the New York attorney general’s website. “This decision requiring the NRA to significantly reform its governance, and the jury’s verdict earlier this year, should send a clear message that we will hold not-for-profits and their leaders accountable when they violate our laws.”
Now, considering that New York Attorney General Letitia James specifically campaigned for office on an “I’ll get Trump” platform (not an “I’ll go after people who actually do things that hurt people” campaign), I question whether this court case going after the NRA had any merit at all.
That’s rather irrelevant at this point, though. The question, now, is will the NRA be able to move ahead and actually make a difference for the Second Amendment rights of their members (and will the people of New York actually elect an Attorney General that cares about the law and doing the right thing instead of focusing on doing things popular with only the political left)?
Only time will tell, but one can hope.