The National Rifle Association filed suit Monday against the city of San Francisco in response to city’s board of supervisors labeling the gun-rights group a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The suit — filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the city and county of San Francisco, as well as the board of supervisors — claims the city violated the gun lobby’s first amendment rights by seeking to prevent any individuals or entities associated with it from doing business in San Francisco.
The board of supervisors passed a resolution last week in response to the country’s "epidemic of gun violence," that accuses the NRA of using "its considerable wealth and organization strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence."
The resolution, which was drafted in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in July, also declares the board’s desire to "limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization."
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