Posted October 26, 2017 1:30 am by Comments

By Daniel Terrill

Patron waiting outside classrooms during the NRA Carry Guard expo in Milwaukee in August. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)
New York regulators launched an investigation into the National Rifle Association’s role in the self-defense insurance program that bears its name.
The probe by the state’s Department of Financial Services will focus on whether the gun lobby is improperly promoting the policy and receiving commissions without a proper license, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The NRA released NRA Carry Guard insurance at its annual conference in April. The program — underwritten by Chubb Ltd and administered by Lockton Cos — offers policies to cover legal fees for patrons who claim self defense after a shooting. Lockton told the Associated Press that they’re cooperating with investigators.
The New York department launched the probe a week after advocacy groups Guns Down and Color of Change launched a campaign, dubbed “Stop Murder Insurance,” to pressure Chubb and Lockton to drop NRA’s business.
A video promoting the campaign featured the mother of Trayvon Martin, whose death has become part of a national dialogue when discussing self-defense shootings. Martin was killed walking home from a store after a brief struggle with an armed neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman.
During the February 2012 incident, Zimmerman

Source: Guns.com

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