This one in Wash. D. C…..
No, it’s not deja vu — the National Rifle Association just suffered another legal humiliation. Three months after a New York jury found NRA executives guilty of treating its coffers like their personal piggybank, the organization just settled a similar case in Washington, D.C. This time, DC’s attorney general was suing the NRA for violating nonprofit law by using its charitable foundation as a slush fund to shore up the parent organization’s dwindling finances.
The NRA’s legal turmoil is welcome news for the millions of Americans clamoring for solutions to America’s gun violence epidemic — and a four-alarm crisis for the gun industry. For the last 30 years, the NRA has served as a suit of armor for the gun industry, one that was big enough to hide the corporations that profited from the organization’s “guns everywhere” agenda, and intimidating enough to keep Washington lawmakers in line. Lately, however, that suit of armor has been losing limbs faster than a knight in a Monty Python movie. In addition to spending more time in court than Donald Trump — who recently boasted to NRA members that his administration “did nothing” on gun safety — the organization is failing by nearly every other metric. Since 2013, its annual haul of membership dues has plummeted by more than half. One out of every five dollars it brings in goes to outside lawyers….