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D.C. Subpoenaed The NRA As Part Of An Investigation Into Their Nonprofit Status

One of the exhibitions in the NRA National Firearms Museum at the NRA Headquarter in Virginia.
One of the exhibitions in the NRA National Firearms Museum at the NRA Headquarter in Virginia.

After a tumultuous few months, the NRA suffered another in a series of blows Friday, when a second Attorney General opened an investigation into its nonprofit status.

This story is developing and will be updated.

The Attorney General of the District of Columbia, is looking for “financial records, payments to vendors, and payments to officers and directors,” for the NRA and the NRA Foundation, Inc., the group’s charitable foundation according to a press release issued Friday.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement that his office is charged with “protecting charitable organizations and their assets in the District” and “can bring court actions to dissolve, or place in receivership, a nonprofit corporation that misuses funds or acts contrary to its nonprofit purposes.”

In April, New York Attorney General Letitia James began a formal review of the NRA’s nonprofit status, including a request for financial records. Then-president of the group, Oliver North, resigned soon after, in a statement read by a board member during the NRA’s annual convention.

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