The NRA’s Tax Exempt Status — AKA Its Existence — Is in Trouble

If the NRA's tax-exempt status dissolves, so too could the embattled organization

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in April. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images If the president thinks he had a bad day this week, he should see the Friday that his allies at the NRA experienced, when Democratic Senator Ron Wyden revealed an 18-month investigation by the Senate Finance Committee determining that the National Rifle Association served as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election.

Not only was Brownell — who later became the organization’s president — spending NRA funds for personal business, an email from Maria Butina to two senior NRA staffers reveals that he was in Russia because “many powerful figures in the Kremlin are counting on Torshin to prove his American connections.” The Senate investigation also found evidence of the NRA attempting to obscure house payments for the trip.

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