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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.
2/ First up, the NRA's top lawyer for decades once was arrested for murder, then freed over bad police work. https://bit.ly/3fyeyl5
3/ The NRA has historically lobbied for laws that fail Black gun owners. https://bit.ly/3fy97CY
4/ And their membership numbers are nowhere what they claim. https://bit.ly/30C42W1
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
6/ After Sandy Hook, the NRA made big promises about a new school safety program. It didn’t do much. https://bit.ly/3funhVC
7/ And the NRA’s plan to “harden schools” was terrifying. https://bit.ly/3gBWHem
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
11/ Mother Jones and @teamtrace uncovered documents that point to illegal campaign coordination between Trump and the NRA. https://bit.ly/3a4y087
12/ During the pandemic, the NRA used coronavirus fears to drive up gun sales. https://bit.ly/30x7rVZ
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
14/14 Read more about Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit here: https://bit.ly/3a4uZ7M
