That seems odd - are you claiming that no non-profit organization may speak to any politician in any manner?
So for example, it is illegal for the Red Cross to ever speak to any politician - to express thanks or to ask for help? That doesn't seem to make sense to me.
You are doing that thing you do in these threads, where you avoid the actual questions by playing games.
What I said was you cannot speak to politicians about the ISSUES as a 501c3.
Look, it's clearly written in the IRS code and you can look it up if you want.
The point is the AHSA has no influence, and doesn't plan on having any, which as usual shows that their only purpose is to be a wedge group.
Unless the AHSA has a separate division organized as a for profit to engage in lobbying there is simply no pressure that they can legally exert to make any changes to gun laws in any manner.
You're welcome to read the tax codes yourself, I'm not simply making this stuff up.
I don't know exactly where the tax laws draw the line between eduction/lobbying/expressing the views of members for non-profit organizations. If you are correct, then I would expect AHSA to lose tax exempt status - if they are chartered that way. That would prove your point to be true.
Their tax status is publicly available information.
In either case, that doesn't make a lot of difference to me. I joined because I supported their policies (with the exception of their 50 BMG policy). I don't really care about the profit/non-profit status.
Which gets us back to where we always start. If you don't care about their tax exempt status then you don't care whether or not they can influence changes, which means you
a) don't really understand what it is they do and
b) have no idea how they would get done the things you claim to want
It matters VERY much, the tax status of groups like this. They can't get anything done otherwise.
And if they can't get anything done, what is their purpose?
And of course you still refuse to answer the question I posted numerous times in your other threads:
Can you explain why all the board members of AHSA were/are also involved in Handgun Control Inc, and Americans to Stop Gun Violence?