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FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, in Oxon Hill, Md. Federal Judge Harlin Hale announced his decision Tuesday, May 11, 2021, to dismiss the National Rifle Association s bankruptcy case over whether the powerful gun-rights group should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, after 11 days of testimony and arguments. Lawyers for New York and the NRA s former advertising agency grilled the group s embattled top executive, LaPierre, who acknowledged putting the NRA into Chapter 11 bankruptcy without the knowledge or assent of most of its board and other top officers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
THE National Rifle Association’s (NRA) bid to avoid a corruption lawsuit in New York has been slapped down by a federal judge meaning the notorious gun lobbying group faces a case that aims to put it out of business.
The organisation, whose powerful Washington influence is often seen as a major obstacle to gun control efforts in the United States, filed for bankruptcy in New York in the hope of reincorporating in Texas.
But Judge Harlin Hale said he did not believe the bankruptcy had been filed in good faith.
And he took aim at NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, who acknowledged filing for bankruptcy without the knowledge of most of its board, saying: “Excluding so many people from the process of deciding to file for bankruptcy, including the vast majority of the board of directors, the chief financial officer, and the general counsel, is nothing less than shocking.”
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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.
Letter Asks UN Human Rights Council to Investigate U.S. Police Brutality Against Black Americans
On 5/10/21 at 10:01 AM EDT
Nearly a year after George Floyd s death inspired protests in the U.S. and around the world, families of Black Americans who died after encounters with law enforcement are calling upon the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent commission of inquiry into police violence against the country s Black citizens.
This isn t the first time the U.N. s HRC has been presented with such a request in fact, it received a similar one last June in the immediate aftermath of Floyd s death. But the HRC ultimately launched a global inquiry into systemic racist policing practices instead of focusing on practices within the U.S.
N.J. makes new push to get controversial smart guns in stores after failing for years
Posted May 10, 2021
A prototype of a smart gun that the New Jersey Institute of Technology spent more than a decade developing. The gun uses sensors to measure a user s hand grip so only authorized users can fire. The NJIT research has ended after running out of funding. (Courtesy of NJIT)
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The 1911 pistol is one of Timmy Oh’s favorite guns.
Oh has experimented on firearms since he was a teenager, looking for ways to make them safer, and he said he was drawn to how the 1911′s “beautiful” design once changed the industry. When the gun was introduced more than a century ago, its improved durability made it a U.S. military mainstay.