Friend,

Earlier this month, on his 16th birthday, a teenage boy shot and killed multiple young classmates in Santa Clarita, California. So far in 2019, we’ve had more than 366 mass shootings—an average of more than one such tragedy a day.

Why is this horrific epidemic continuing?

Because the National Rifle Association (NRA) is lining the pockets of elected officials like Senator Mitch McConnell, who keeps blocking bipartisan gun control legislation that we passed in the House months ago.

On top of all this, recent investigations have revealed the NRA’s patterns of sordid dealings, which have violated federal laws governing nonprofit organizations.

It’s time we stop allowing the NRA to benefit from tax breaks. It’s time the IRS revoke the NRA’s tax-exempt status.

Sign the petition: Demand the IRS strip the NRA of their tax-exempt status.

Congressional Democrats have asked the IRS to investigate the NRA and determine whether the organization should be stripped of its tax-exempt status.

A months-long Senate investigation revealed that the NRA acted as a Russian ‘asset’, working closely with Russian nationals who wanted access to the American political system.

The investigation found that top officials at the NRA used the organization’s financial resources—largely collected by member dues—to curry favor with two Russians, Aleksander Torshin and Maria Butina, who was convicted last year of conspiring to act as a foreign agent. Both said they had access to top Russian officials.

This is not the first time the NRA’s finances have come into question.

Earlier this year, an explosive investigative report revealed the intricate way in which hundreds of millions of dollars have allegedly been siphoned off to top executives and vendors at the NRA.

The report paints a picture of individual greed, and a potentially fraudulent nonprofit teetering on the edge of collapse. Their financial deals have largely been a gross misuse of their tax-exempt status.

These recent investigations reveal that the NRA did not act as a social welfare organization, as it claims to be. Such organizations are restricted from profiting off of their activities—that’s why they’re exempt from taxes, as nonprofits. After violating these restrictions, the NRA should lose its tax breaks. Its status must be revoked.

Sign the petition: Demand the IRS strip the NRA of their tax-exempt status.

Thanks for all you do,

Rashida