The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
Everyone should have tax exempt status but I'll just write it once since that will change as many people's minds as writing it 4 times.
They should not! What are they, a church? 🙄
Its a fucking gun club Why any special treatment?
Maria Butina, one of Putin's top spies and avid supporter of the NRA posing with top GOP leader before Putin recalled her to Russia. Putin's MAGA Puppet felon adjudicated rapist Trump and key GOP leadership are still working to destroy America. BELIEVE ME
Nor churches. They are political arms of the fascist takeover of America. 🇺🇸
Neither should religion..
What about Epstein?
true, but it's only happening because that "tax money" is transformed into political donations so, in reality they are still paying the same amount
They should pay compensation
Both of your political parties and President after President support NRA tax-exempt status so they must understand the reasons not visible to the general public.
We don't need guns! We are much safer without them! This has been proven worldwide!
You are correct, and yes, I have a BUT. The more significant problem is that our political representatives are permitted to take money from lobbyists. Their salaries should be quadrupled and no other money. No Pacs, speaking engagements, individual investments.
They don't get to keep that money for themselves. That is illegal. See Duncan Hunter. There was also an upstate NY Congressman whose name I can't remember. The money they get from lobbyists is for campaigns.
The definition of "campaign expenses" is very broad.
Really? www.fec.gov/help-candida...
Are you aware that candidates are able to take loans ahead of an election and only pay it back if they lose. They have millions in war chests to take when they leave office. They are able to get inside info and invest accordingly. You and I mean nothing.
Take personal loans - not loans to the campaign - from where? And where is the law that says that loans can be used for personal expenses? Or do you mean they can lend money to their campaigns (which they can).
The real core issue is what constitutes a campaign expense
www.fec.gov/updates/tip2...
In 9/24, they allowed use of campaign funds for security for the candidate and family members www.elias.law/newsroom/cli...
I would still like to know what your reply meant.
Our politicians are always campaigning. Can they spend money on traveling, food, hotels, office space, phones, furniture, and child care if they can say they are actively campaigning... WHICH THEY ALWAYS ARE
If they stay in a hotel while campaigning then they can. Campaign office phones, yes. Campaign office space yes. Campaign office furniture, yes. Not sure about childcare. I'd have to look it up. But they can't buy furniture for their own homes, they can't pay for hotels for personal travel, etc.
The NRA should not exist period. They’ve been a corrupt organization forever
This may be a stupid question but why does the NRA have tax exempt status?
End NRA. Corrupt gun lobby, prevents common-sense gun laws bsky.app/profile/chri...
They are a terrorist lobby.
I agree! I agree! I agree! I agree!
Correct
Also, didn't they say they needed all those guns to fight tyranny? The tyranny is happening, where they at?
National ASSAULT Rifle Assn. Always call it that.
Every day in every way the Republican party re-affirms it is nothing more than a death cult
No one should be tax exempt.
Neither should churches
Nor should churches.
Neither should hospitals, religious orgs, and any nonprofit over $50 million in revenue. Or use executive salaries as a guideline. CEOs of nonprofits making $500,000 is ridiculous.
It's no different than any other RELIGION.
They act like a cult, but they are not a house of worship. They need to pay taxes, pay medical and funeral costs for all victims (and families) of mass shootings, and pay fines whenever mass shootings, racially profiled shootings, and police brutality shootings occur.
“In a civil corruption trial brought by the New York Attorney General, a jury found former NRA President Wayne LaPierre liable for financial mismanagement and misusing NRA funds, …The NRA itself was also found liable for financial mismanagement and violating whistleblower protections.”
Agreed. No organization should be tax exempt. We should also tax the ACLU, Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, The Girls Scouts of America, and so on.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Now do it with organizations that protect the 1st Amendment. We already know OP doesn't like the 2nd Amendment.
That is crazy.
Maybe they have the Epstein Files?
They are terrorists and should be shut down
Why do they? Why do churches? Could it have something to do with enriching members of congress to keep them tax exempt?
Several groups that have been tax exempt have used their money to ruin this country. The NRA and The Heritage Foundation should be stripped from using tax free money to pay lobbyists and politicians for a bigger voice in our government. The harm they have caused can’t even be measured!
Like most exempt organizations, they have a separate 501(c)(4) for partisan politics, because that is legal for that type of organization. And 501(c)(3) organizations are permitted to lobby, although the extent of the lobbying is restricted.
What would it take for the NRA to lose its tax-exempt status? share.google/tMIa8Vhsz5XS...
Every member of the NRA should be sent to prison for very kid murdered in a school shooting. EVERY. NRA. MEMBER. Regardless of their thoughts on the matter or whether they support #guncotrol legislation. I said what I said.
Counterpoint: Jesus is a firearm.
Wait--the NRA has tax-exempt status?!?!?
Now do it with churches and the Heritage Foundation. 🙁🚩
Repeal Citizens United. Do campaign finance reform. Do term limits. This alone can fix a lot.
The NRA should not exist. Fixed it.
Neither should churches
Idk, the Quakers are pretty cool and do a lot of actual good in my community.
Certainly not mega churches or ones with multimillionaire pastors or TV channels or any other profit making arm.
Neither should churches, or the NFL, etc.
Oh….. And release the Epstein files!!!!
Neither should mega-churches or any church that espouses behavior that contradicts the teachings of their own religion in favor of self-interest or politics.
So why do they?
In a civilized country the NRA would be regarded a terrorist organization
I would also like to add: The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
They shouldn't even exist
Let’s all file the anonymous form to report NRA for their political action = removal of NRA tax exempt status.
The NRA should not even exist.
Gun manufacturing should not be exempt from lawsuits, and regulation
Why does any organization need tax exemption. If you spend all your money on services, research or conservation, you won't have much taxable income to worry about. Honest organization would be fine, abusers would be weeded out quicker.
Kremlin operation.
The NRA should not exist.
The NRA should be dissolved and its principals tried and imprisoned for treason. They laundered Russian money to Trump in the 2016 election. That is proven fact.
Those A-holes are tax exempt, enough of this corruption, no wonder things are the way they are.
The NRA, is a Terrorist Organization.
With what would you replace it, Sybil? I live on a rural working organic farm. We use firearms every day as routine farm tools. We grow high quality food. If NRA is wicked, which maybe it is, with what shall we replace it? Some group must provide firearm safety training. If not NRA than whom?
A nonprofit that teaches gun safety? I ask with genuine curiosity: what beneficial role does the NRA play in your community?
No one should have tax-exempt status.
Same for churches
The NRA has outlived their usefulness. They have evolved into something sinister and should be dismantled entirely.
The best way to get rid of the NRA is for liberals to buy more guns than MAGAts do 😅 Better yet, a billionaire could give every qualified Black American an AR-15; all of a sudden, there would be gun control.
Fraudsters for the sticker on da twuck.
WHY do they have tax exempt status?
NRA = Murder-Industrial Complex Lobbyists
They continue to corrupt our corrupt congresspeople. They are a major part of the problem. We have the amendment, we don’t need them lining the pockets of our elected officials.
If they want to be tax exempt, we can remind them that they don't have to pay taxes when they're dead.
The NRA should be pronounced a terrorist organisation due to the huge number of gun deaths in America
What is it? Some type of weird church ?
The National Russian Association.
They did not forget, vladimir told them to stand down.
Fraudsters..every fucking one.
The NRA should be sued by every community affected by rampant gun violence.
The NRA is a terrorist organization. The NRA is a terrorist organization. The NRA is a terrorist organization. The NRA is a terrorist organization.
Churches should not have tax exempt status, either.
The USA should have NRA-exempt status.
They also have one of the largest online #astroturfing trollfarm operations.
Agreed, nor should churches unless they wanna open the accounting books.
The NRA should no longer exist.
From what I was always told, way back when, the NRA was started as a gun safety and educational organization ... Of course, now, it is a gun accessibility lobbying group, and gun restriction to trained shooters, except that properly trained to them now means, anyone with enough money to buy a gun!
Nor should churches. They took women’s bodily autonomy. It’s unforgivable 🤬
The NRA will be prosecuted and dissolved for the Kremlin conspiracy. Join the CMP to help take them down! 🏹🎯🪆
Is a Russian money laundering organization.
Churches that interfere in US politics should not have tax-exempt status as well!
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I didn’t know that it did! FFS!
That’s not an argument. The NRA is a civil rights organization.
Here is NRA’s 2023 IRS Form 990 tax return which has a lot of information. See the bottom of page 6 and schedule O about who to contact at the NRA for their audit report & other info. Pages 7 & 8 & Schedule J list board members and compensation. Schedule O contains info about LaPierre fraud.
The NRA had two goals: resist tyranny and personal protection. The NRA has failed at both.
The NRA has one goal, like almost everyone in America: Maximize profits. Imo that's literally the answer to almost every riddle facing us. Greedy people, manipulating stupid people... with some genuine bigotries sprinkled in just for fun. But it's mostly about privilege, property, profit, power, etc
Agreed!
Agreed!
The NRA has benefit more deaths than it's prevented.
Yes but isn’t the case that the US doesn’t tax Russian owned companies? Tax duties are currently at 0% for that country.
Save America and our future! Stop thinking that guns in the hands of domestic terrorists, or America in the hands of Fascists, makes anyone safe! Vote every last conservative out!
The NRA is a political organization thus is ineligible for tax exempt status.
Gun manufacturers should not be immune from lawsuits or prosecutions
Unfortunately the #fascist #GOP occupies the 3 levers of power
In the long ago, they gave gun safety classes, required for young hunters. Now they're only a tool for gun manufacturers, whos advice on gun safety is "Arm everybody!"
They will have it as long as the Pubs reign in their terror
Agreed
Churches should not have tax exempt status. If you want the church in schools then we should have the IRS in churches. There’s a reason the founders wanted a separation of church and state.