1/ New York state Attorney General Letitia James just sued to dissolve the NRA for financial misconduct. We've been covering the group's operations for years. Here’s what we’ve dug up.
5/ After each mass shooting, the organization’s Twitter account goes silent, followed by a prompt defense of the Second Amendment. But, here’s the thing: https://bit.ly/3fB6joH 
8/ A 2015 Mother Jones investigation found the average cost to taxpayers for a single gun homicide in America is nearly $400,000. And we pay for 32 of them every single day. https://bit.ly/30xreVb 
9/ Take a look at their history of advertising, and you’ll see the NRA’s shift to a group closely allied with the gun industry and the conservative establishment whose only solution to gun violence is even more guns. https://bit.ly/3a4Dtfi 
10/ In 2016, the NRA’s political arm set a fundraising record, taking in a staggering $366 million—and spent tens of millions of dollars to get Trump elected. https://bit.ly/3a1Sz52 
13/ The NRA has spent decades warning about police crackdowns. But when militarized police and unknown federal agents flooded cities across the country to shut down largely peaceful mass demonstrations, the NRA was silent. https://bit.ly/3ikStIN 
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