SAN FRANCISCO: The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday after the recent declaration by the city's Board of Supervisors that the NRA is a terrorist organisation, media reported.
The suit also claimed that the move by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors to limit city agencies from working with companies doing business with the NRA was effectively a blacklist, the San Francisco Chronicle and other media reported.
"This lawsuit comes with a message to those who attack the NRA: We will never stop fighting for our law-abiding members and their constitutional freedoms," Wayne LaPierre, the group's chief executive officer, said in a statement. However, Supervisor Catherine Stefani of the San Francisco board, who introduced the measure, said she believed their action would stand up in court, according to the New York Times."It's a resolution, it's not an ordinance, it's non-binding," she told the newspaper.
The suit asks the court to"instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree," the Washington Post reported.The suit was filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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