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    NY attorney general seeking to disband NRA - NRA countersues

    NRA fights back, files its own suit against NY attorney general seeking to disband organization

    The National Rifle Association is fighting back against a lawsuit filed Thursday by New York's attorney general by submitting its own civil suit against the state official, accusing her of defamation and violating its rights to free speech.

    The NRA's lawsuit was filed in the federal court of New York and alleges Attorney General Letitia James "made the political prosecution of the NRA a central campaign theme" when she was running for the AG's office in 2018, and has not treated the association fairly since.

    "Despite hopes that playing by the rules would procure a just outcome, the NRA has not been treated fairly by James's office," the 19-page suit states. "The New York Democratic Party political machine seeks to harass, defund, and dismantle the NRA because of what it believes and what it says."

    The defamation allegations stem from James' public descriptions of the NRA as a "criminal enterprise" and "a terrorist organization."

    "James boasted that she would strike foul blows against the NRA and pound the NRA into submission. She vowed that she would use the NYAG's investigative and enforcement powers for the precise purpose of stanching political speech ('deadly propaganda)," the lawsuit states. "She has begun to deliver on her campaign promises to retaliate against the NRA for constitutionally protected speech on issues that James opposes. As NYAG, James has regrettably succumbed to 'individual passions, and individual malevolence.'"

    President Trump also slammed James' suit against the group, calling it "a very terrible thing..."

    NRA fights back, files its own suit against NY attorney general seeking to disband organization | Fox News

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