When you give a donation to a not-for-profit organization, there are rules.

A charity, in this case the National Rifle Association, can't just use that donated

money any way it pleases.

That's where New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, comes in.

My office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association to dissolve the organization

in its entirety for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct that violate New York's

charity's law and undermine its own mission.

Letitia James made this announcement a couple of weeks ago, seemingly out of the blue, pleasing

progressives and causing consternation for second amendment advocates.

In some, what the Attorney General here is alleging is just an incredible culture of self-dealing,

one of mismanagement, and one where the board of this organization was negligent in overseeing

how that money in the organization was being spent.

That's Tim Mac.

He's an investigative reporter for NPR who's been following the National Rifle Association

closely for years.

Did Letitia James take a bold or unexpected interpretation of the law when she looked

not just to find the NRA or punish the NRA or scold the NRA, but in fact end the organization?

Well, she has the power to do so.

I mean, there's precedent to do so and the law does allow her in the most egregious

cases to shut down charitable organizations.

Tim says the Attorney General has taken down charities doing business in New York before,

like the Trump Foundation.

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