The National Rifle Association hopes to dodge penalties at their New York civil corruption trial by arguing that NRA leader Wayne LaPierre’s sudden resignation last week helps prove there is no longer “ongoing and persistent” wrongdoing at the gun lobby.
Jurors should hear evidence of the NRA’s “course correction,” including that LaPierre is on his way out, the gun lobby argued in a court filing this weekend.
The NRA was not LaPierre’s enabler, they argued. Rather, they were a victim of “former rogue officers,” the gun lobby argued, apparently now lumping LaPierre in with the rogues.
