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The Legal Case Against the NRA

@K_Thomas_Ross         It's great news that New York's AG is suing to dissolve the NRA, and the AG of DC is suing the main NRA Foundation.  Though the NRA is a non-profit, it is a 501(c)4 (social welfare), which is allowed much more lobbying and advocacy.  Contributions to it are not tax deductible.          Therefore, large contributors are funneled into the NRA’s four foundations.  They are 501(c)3. Contributions to them are tax deductible, but their range of activities are much more limited.  It is illegal for a 501(c)3 to contribute money to a 501(c)4.         But they have intermixed Boards of Directors, and they are really one organization.         In general, the NRA has attempted to get around the law by illegally shifting expenses to the foundations – pensions, salaries, or La Pierre’s wardrobe, etc.          But also, the NRA Foundation has made an illegal $10M low-term loan to the main NRA, which is really an illegal shifting of funds from a 501(c)3 to a 501(c)4.   …
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INDEX   gunsarekillingus.com                                                      By @K_Thomas_Ross1. GUN ARTICLES:The NRA Board of Directors 2020-2021 (Minus One)July 11, 2020Current Senators and Representatives who Voted to Exempt from Liability Manufacturers and Sellers of Assault Weapons sold to CiviliansMay 13, 2020
Stand Your Ground Laws are often a License to KillMay 11, 2020Three More NRA Director Resignations (or Purges)Jan 30, 2020
The Second Amendment’s Original Purpose, America’s History of Gun Laws and prior Supreme Court Cases, and the Nonsense that was the 2008 Court Decision that Changed the Meaning of 2AMay 9, 2020Part I – The Purpose of the Second Amendment was to Suppress SlavesPart II: The History of State and Federal Gun Control Laws and of US Supreme Court DecisionsPart III: The Total Absurdity of the Opinion that Changed the Meaning of 2A (Supreme Court’s Heller (2008))
Secret Listing of the NRA Board of Directors, 2019-2020May 25, 20192.  OTHER ARTICLES:Toward an …
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Toward an American Democratic Republic

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Our government is fundamentally undemocratic.  Half the Senate is elected by states with 17.2% of the US population. They are elected only by majorities in those states (not the whole people), Also, turnout is between 40% and 60% of voters.  So perhaps 5% of Americans control the Senate. 



The 25 states with half the Senators tend to be GOP or Swing (8 states - DE, HI, OR, VT, ME, NH, RI & CT - are Blue or Bluish).  And the dozen states with largest populations, those most cheated in the Senate, are almost all Blue or Swing states.  TX and GA are the exceptions, though they too are trending toward Swing states.  So, in the long run, the Senate will be Republican.  Democrats may take a small majority for 2 or 4 years, but the LR tread is a GOP Senate.A majority party voter in Wyoming (the smallest population state) has 69 times the power in the Senate relative to one in California. (Minority party voters have zero representation anywhere.)The Electoral College is not q…
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The 2020-2021 NRA Board of Directors (less one)

The 2020-2021 NRA Board of Directors (less one)By K. Thomas Ross@K_Thomas_Ross“[The NRA’s] promotional and propaganda … constitute its major reasons for existence. It does not … relieve the government of its burden of [gun safety and military gun training] education. If [the NRA] should succeed to any large extent in teaching the youth of the nation to shoot, without at the same time inculcating the discipline of military training, … it is much more probable that the result would be, instead, a tremendous increase in the governmental burden of crime control.”  DC Court of Appeal Hazen v. NRA, 1938, denying foundation status to the NRAThe NRA Admits its Board of Directors Elections are Just for Show            Because of COVID-19, the NRA cancelled its Annual Meeting, scheduled for mid-April in Nashville.  It also put a hold on its annual election.              (One-third of the Board is elected each year – three classes of 25.  A 76th director is picked at the Annual Meeting, a chance…
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