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NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks in February 2020 at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
DALLAS (AP) A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business.
The judge was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state.
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A federal judge has dismissed the NRA’s bankruptcy case, which would have allowed the gun-rights group to move and incorporate in Texas. Instead, it will have to remain in New York, where it is facing a lawsuit that threatens to dissolve the organization.