Gun Control Group Goes After NRA’s Tax-Exempt Status

By Tom Knighton

For gun control activists, the National Rifle Association is the biggest boogieman out there. They’re convinced that it is the only real barrier to them being able to run roughshod over the American people and enact their radical and draconian gun control agenda. Hatred for the NRA fills their rhetoric and makes a convenient whipping boy for their historic failures to enact gun control.

Now, they’re going after the group’s tax-exempt status as a way to try and dismantle the organization.

A gun control group has filed an IRS complaint against the National Rifle Association (NRA), calling for an investigation into whether the gun rights organization violated tax laws surrounding charitable organizations.

“The NRA is a purported charity and exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and we write today to alert you to what we believe are activities that clearly fall outside of the NRA’s charitable purpose and mission,” Everytown for Gun Safety said in a letter attached to their complaint filed Thursday.

“We call on the IRS to commence an investigation into whether (i) the NRA has violated the federal laws governing 501(c)(4) charitable organizations, and (ii) if so, consider …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms