{"id":35020,"date":"2025-01-29T18:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35020"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:04:55","slug":"vote-yes-on-nra-incorporation-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35020","title":{"rendered":"Vote YES On NRA Incorporation Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:839,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nysenate.gov\\\/legislation\\\/laws\\\/NPC\\\/201&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:840,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/law.justia.com\\\/codes\\\/new-york\\\/2013\\\/npc\\\/article-2\\\/201&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:841,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.lorman.com\\\/resources\\\/tax-exempt-organizations-in-new-york-choice-of-jurisdiction-17173?srsltid=AfmBOoqIxtv7koY1MykCG0w9EHf7j5Y1z9LdHaV4m4bqMAhba9GilNs-&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A number of questions have been asked about the vote to amend the NRA&#8217;s incorporation to specify that it is a &#8220;non-charitable organization.&#8221; This has led to some confusion on what is the proper vote.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/amendment.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35021\" style=\"width:575px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/amendment.jpg 720w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/amendment-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/laws\/NPC\/201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sec. 201 of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law<\/a><\/strong> defines a non-profit either as a charitable corporation or a non-charitable corporation. New York revised the law in 2014 and all previously incorporated non-profits were deemed charitable corporations. They previously had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/new-york\/2013\/npc\/article-2\/201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defined them as Type A, B, C, and D<\/a><\/strong> depending upon the purposes of the corporation. The NRA was considered a Type B non-profit as a social welfare organization. Under the Internal Revenue Code, the NRA is a 501(c)(4) organization which allows them to engage in political lobbying and other political activities. By contrast, a true charity is a 501(c)(3) organization and is forbidden to engage in those activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Directors voted to recommend the amendment as it brings the NRA federal and New York State statuses into agreement. Moreover, while not stated within the Board&#8217;s resolution, it also<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorman.com\/resources\/tax-exempt-organizations-in-new-york-choice-of-jurisdiction-17173?srsltid=AfmBOoqIxtv7koY1MykCG0w9EHf7j5Y1z9LdHaV4m4bqMAhba9GilNs-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> exempts the NRA from the requirement<\/a><\/strong> to have certain transactions including amendment of corporate purposes approved by the New York Attorney General or a New York court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All things considered, a YES vote is called for in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board&#8217;s resolution which gives more detail is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2417c518-ed1a-427c-90be-3ace17e9dfd8\" href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-05-15-Resolution-recommending-amendment-of-NRAs-Certificate-of-Incorporation-clean.docx\">2024-05-15 Resolution recommending amendment of NRA&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation clean<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-05-15-Resolution-recommending-amendment-of-NRAs-Certificate-of-Incorporation-clean.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2417c518-ed1a-427c-90be-3ace17e9dfd8\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of questions have been asked about the vote to amend the NRA&#8217;s incorporation to specify that it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7014,7013,7015],"class_list":["post-35020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-non-charitable-corporation","tag-nra-incorporation-amendment","tag-ny-not-for-profit-corporation-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35029,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020\/revisions\/35029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}