If Gov Andrew Cuomo succeeds in using the influence of New York State banking and insurance regulations to deny NRA banking and insurance services because Cuomo hates NRA for promoting gun rights, does anyone really think he won't do the same to other gun rights groups?
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The NRA Leadership and Past Presidents vouch that the NRA is not vulnerable, is financially stable and still strong in its fight to defend the Second Amendment.*
NY Gov Andrew Cuomo has vowed to use the State of New York's clout over the banking and the insurance industry nationwide to deprive the NRA of banking and insurance services and shut the NRA down:
https://www.facebook.com/andrewcuomo/posts/10155987290088401
Andrew Cuomo
August 3 [2018] at 12:16 PM ·
The regulations NY put in place are working. We're forcing the NRA into financial jeopardy. We won't stop until we shut them down.
The NRA has had the support of the ACLU against Cuomo's campaign:
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/amicus_brief_1.pdf
Dated 24 Aug 2018, ACLU:
Although public officials are free to express their opinions and may condemn viewpoints or groups they view as inimical to public welfare, they cannot abuse their regulatory authority to retaliate against disfavored advocacy organizations and to impose burdens on those organizations' ability to conduct lawful business."
But Cuomo's war to shut down the NRA continues. No matter how healthy the NRA is otherwise, NRA-ILA needs funds to fight this in court.
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US Supreme Court Held in DC v Heller 2008:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
My home state Article I Declaration of Rights, Section 26 declares the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms but reserves the power of the Legislature to regulate with view to prevent crime. All traditionally lawful purposes to own and use arms, including self defense, military preparedness training, hunting, protecting livestock from predators, collection as curios or keepsakes, and recreational use, are protected and gun regulations for crime control must not unduly burden traditionally lawful purposes.
The New York attitude is summed up in Madison Avenue Adman Carl Bakal's book "NO Right to Bear Arms" a holy writ to gun controllers, especially fans of Tim Sullivan's Law of 1911. New York politicians have sought to impose the Sullivan Act nationwide.
