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The "about the organization" website can be found here: http://www.nra.org/Aboutus.aspx
The educational arm - the NRA foundation - is 501(c). It has a webiste separately from the NRA itself, and NRA-ILA. Therefore only a part of the NRA's activities fall under 501(c)
As to your true/false questions...
My first stop to evaluate charities is a site like Charity Navigator
Their comment on the NRA is:
The not for profit NRA foundation is rated by them... It gets a 4 star rating, their highest.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5450
So for the 501(c) portion of the organization the answers to your questions are:
1) False
2) True
3) False
4) False
5) Don't know
Again - you're seeing what you want to see...
No, you are seeing what you want to see. The NRA is a non-profit 501(C)(4) organization. Its firearms training arm is a non-profit 501(C)(3).
There are at least 28 different designations of 501(C) non-profits. You seem to believe there is just one, without delineating the differences.
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A (4) may do unlimited lobbying but a (3) can't. A (4) which is usually formed for lobbying is not eligible for federal funds but a (3) which is usually formed for civic or educational purposes is.
Both arms of the NRA are non-profits. One is lobbying, the other is educational.
You flunked the true-false quiz, too. Try again.
I can't understand someone who will blindly support something which is getting bloated and straying from it's roots. I support the NRA, but not blindly. It has some real problems, especially in the past 6 years.