The unconstitutional laws enacted by Democrat legislatures from coast-to-coast have led to numerous lawsuits against them by 2nd Amendment (2A) organizations.
Always wanting to be the leader in unconstitutional activities involving firearms, Governor Hochul, the NY Legislatures and NY Attorney General Letitia James have enacted laws or defended many of the resultant lawsuits.

When AG James defends an unconstitutional law, she does so on the taxpayers’ dime. But those that oppose these laws must finance them out-of-pocket and that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars. Knowing this, AG James appeals all decisions to higher courts, running up the lawyer’s fees and hoping to bankrupt her opponents before the Constitution triumphs.

SCOPE is not big enough to finance these lawsuits on our own, but we have done something very unusual for not-for-profit (NFP) organizations; we have fund-raised for and contributed to other NFP organizations in support of their 2A lawsuits. As well as member contributions, money has come from fund raisers at both the state SCOPE and the SCOPE chapter levels.

In 2023, below are the results of contributions to GOA-NY:

SCOPE Legal Degense Fund $3,000
Steuben County SCOPE $2,000
Allegany County SCOPE $2,000
Genesee County SCOPE $2,000
SCOPE Officer Gary Z. $  500
SCOPE members gifted through SCOPE $5,370
$14,870

SCOPE members gifted directly to GOA-NY $1,550
As of January, 31, 2024:  TOTAL $16,420

SCOPE may be a relatively small organization when compared to the NRA but with our chapters and the state SCOPE working together,
we can make a difference.