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.

Vintage Firearms: A great example of how anti-2A organizations with deep liberal pockets are a direct threat to our constitutional rights, by using the court system.   For the full article on the Vintage Firearms lawsuit :  Vintage Firearms Lawsuit (part 1) & Vintage Firearms Lawsuit (part 2)

In 2024, SCOPE asked for contributions to go towards the Vintage Firearms lawsuit

SCOPE Member gifted through SCOPE & to Vintage Firearms directly $2317
Allegany County SCOPE $500
Cayuga County SCOPE $250
Jefferson-Lewis SCOPE $1000
State SCOPE $6000

As of August: $10,067

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

SCOPE Legal Defense 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.