Washington prosecutor subpoenas NRA in probe into nonprofit status

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The attorney general for the District of Columbia issued subpoenas on Friday to the National Rifle Association and its charitable foundation seeking financial records in an investigation into their nonprofit status, the Washington Post reported.

It quoted District of Colombia Attorney General Karl Racine as saying in a statement that his office “has issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and the NRA Foundation, Inc., as part of an investigation into whether these entities violated the District’s Nonprofit Act.”