Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, the National Rifle Association has recently filed for bankruptcy. To stop being sued by the New York Attorney General, the association filed for bankruptcy.

 

♦ In August 2020, the Attorney General of New York sued the National Rifle Association on the grounds that the senior management of the association was embezzling millions of dollars for personal travel.

♦ The American Rifle Association, founded in 1871 by veterans of the Civil War, General George Wingate and Colonel William C. Church, is a non-profit organization. To promote and encourage scientific rifle shooting, the organization was founded.

♦ It is considered the United States` most powerful gun group. Critics assume that the corporation is a contributing factor to gun violence in the country.

♦ The NRA teaches gun safety and skills. It has published numerous magazines and sponsored competitive contests for marksmanship. The NRA consists of more than 5 million members as of December 2018.

♦ The main initiatives of the NRA are the Gun Owners Rights Act, which removes the limitations of the 1968 Gun Control Act, and the Dickey Amendment that prohibits federal funding from being used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support gun control.

♦ The creation of the American National Rifle Association is in line with the creation of the British National Rifle Association, set up a year and a half ago.

♦ From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War occurred. The product of the long-term enslavement of blacks was the civil war. The NRA is considered a civil war artifact.

♦ The Arms Trade Deal was opposed by the National Rifle Association. The Arms Trade Treaty is a multilateral treaty which governs international trade. The treaty was ratified by more than 109 nations. The treaty aims to regulate the international trade in conventional arms.

 

 

 

Italian authorities claim that the Ndrangheta Mafia is responsible for managing South America`s huge amounts of cocaine entering Europe. The Italian government announced this after the large-scale Mafia trial against the Ndrangheta party.

 

♦ In the region of Calabria, Ndrangheta is a popular Italian mafia. In the 18th century, the Mafia began.

♦ The first official report of the Ndrangheta was submitted in 1792 during the reign of the Bourbons of Naples.

♦ Drug trafficking accounts for 3% of Italy`s GDP, according to U.S. money laundering operations. The annual turnover of Ndrangheta is roughly US$50 billion to US$60 billion.

♦ Ndrangheta also operates in other countries, including Germany, Albania, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, the Netherlands, Malta, Switzerland, the Republic of Slovakia, Uruguay, the United Kingdom and the United States.

♦ According to EUROPOL (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation), the most powerful organized crime organization in the world is Ndrangheta.

♦ The province of Calabria is situated in southern Italy. The area is bordered east by the Ionian Sea and west by the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Messina Strait divides Calabria from Sicily. One of Ndrangheta`s closest associates is known to be the Mafia in Sicily.

♦ The Camorra, Sacra Corona Unita, Societa foggiana, Stidda, Albanian Mafia, American Mafia, Primeriro Comando da Capital are the Allies of the Ndrangheta Mafia.

♦ In Italy, there are the Camorra, Safian Mafia, Sacra Corona Unita, Stidda and Societa Foggiana. In Brazil, Primeiro Comando da Capital is located. 

A partnership between the UK and Japan is the LongOps initiative. Japanese and British scientists will develop new protection technology in this operation to remove old nuclear facilities, such as Fukushima, which have been badly damaged by tsunamis and earthquakes.

 

♦ The project will use robotic arms that are remote, so it is called the "LongOps Project" The project would minimize risks to human health and accelerate the decommissioning of nuclear reactors that are not in use.

♦ The cost of implementing the LongOps project is Euro 12 million (1.2 billion rupees). It will concentrate on the rapid decommissioning of nuclear installations.

♦ The project will also concentrate on the partial automation of the nuclear fusion power generation process, in addition to dismantling the nuclear fission sector.

♦ In addition, the initiative would help to develop and uninstall nuclear fusion facilities, such as the Circle of the European Union. A nuclear fusion experiment located at the Culham Fusion Energy Center in the United Kingdom is the United European Ring.

♦ This is the first reactor to be developed using both 50-50 and deuterium mixed fuel. To follow the principles used in the ITER project, it was closed in 2009.

♦ ITER is the Experimental International Thermonuclear Reactor. India is part of ITER as well. China, Russia, Japan, the European Union, the United States, and South Korea are the other countries involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

♦ The LongOps project is part of Digital Twin Technology. At the decommissioning site, it will evaluate data and forecast barriers to operation and maintenance.

♦ More than 21 extreme radioactive release events occurred in Sellafield between 1950 and 2000. The location of Sellafield is in the United Kingdom. This is a former nuclear facility. Activities at the site as of August 2020 include the reprocessing of nuclear fuel, nuclear decommissioning and disposal of nuclear waste.

♦ In 2011, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor was seriously damaged. More than 150,000 individuals were displaced by the incident. Furthermore, animals and plants are severely poisoned in the surrounding environment.