NRA Texas Relocation Rejected by Judge Who Dismisses Bankruptcy

The National Rifle Association can’t use bankruptcy to reincorporate to gun-friendly Texas from New York, where it faces a governmental fraud lawsuit, a judge in Dallas ruled.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harlin “Cooter” Hale dismissed the NRA’s Chapter 11 case after a weeks-long trial in which New York officials claimed the filing was a bad-faith effort to dodge oversight.

The decision means that New York Attorney General Letitia James should have an easier time seizing the NRA’s assets if she wins her lawsuit in New York. In that suit, James argues that NRA head Wayne LaPierre and others so badly mismanaged ...