New York Attorney General files a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association

New York's Attorney General has announced a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the powerful National Rifle Association over alleged financial mismanagement.

Letitia James said the NRA had diverted millions of dollars to leaders including its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, for their personal use.

The NRA described the lawsuit as a "baseless, premeditated attack".

Letitia James says that the four named defendants - LaPierre, Wilson Phillips, Joshua Powell and John Frazer - "instituted a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement and negligent oversight at the NRA that was illegal, oppressive and fraudulent".

The attorney general outlined a litany of charges against the defendants, but accused LaPierre, long the face of the powerful gun lobby group, of being the "central figure" behind the organisation's wrongdoings.

[Source: BBC]