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The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulatory agency for what it says is a blacklisting campaign aimed at preventing firms from doing business with the gun owners’ group.

The lawsuit filed in federal court for the northern district of New York names the Democratic governor along with the state Department of Financial Services and its superintendent, Maria Vullo, as defendants.

It accuses Cuomo of directing a campaign of “selective prosecution, backroom exhortations, and public threats” aimed at depriving the NRA and its members of their First Amendment rights “to speak freely about gun-related issues.”

The lawsuit comes after New York state fined insurance broker Lockton Cos. LLC $7 million for underwriting an NRA-branded insurance program called Carry Guard.

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