FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES NRA BANKRUPTCY CASE

DALLAS — A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business.

Judge Harlin Hale was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state.

Hale said in a written order he was dismissing the case because he found the bankruptcy was not filed in good faith.

Phillip Journey, an NRA board member and Kansas judge, was concise about Hale’s judgment: “1 word, disappointed,” he wrote in a text message.