National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre touted the lawsuit as a stand against “those who attack the NRA."
San Francisco, CA – The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco after the city’s board of supervisors declared the group to be a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
The NRA alleged that city leaders violated the group’s right to free speech as a political ploy, and that it is attempting to “blacklist” those who are associated with the gun-rights lobby.
The group argued that the declaration discriminates against citizens “based on the viewpoint of their political speech,” NPR reported.
The resolution was passed with “the purpose of suppressing the NRA’s pro-Second Amendment viewpoint,” the lawsuit read, according to CNN. “Defendants undertook such unlawful conduct with the intent to obstruct, chill, deter, and retaliate against the NRA's core political speech."
The NRA said that the measure is “obviously unconstitutional,” and that it qualifies as a “system of informal censorship.”
The lawsuit also requested that the court “instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree,” according to the Associated Press.
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