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Congressional Candidates who received campaign money from the NRA -- click on arrows to sort the columns -- Candidate State House (H) or Senate (S) Party R=Republican D=Democrat Amount Election cycle Career totals (as of 2023) Notes Roy Blunt: MO S R $11,900 2016 - [14] [15] Barbara Comstock: VA H R $10,400 2016 - [14] Richard Burr: NC S R ...
By 1976, as the NRA became more politically oriented, the Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF), a PAC, was established as a subsidiary to the NRA, to support NRA-friendly politicians. [101] Chris W. Cox, who is the NRA's chief lobbyist and principal political strategist, is also the NRA-PVF chairman. Through the NRA-PVF, the NRA began to rate ...
The NRA-PVF was established in 1976 as an NRA subsidiary and registered as a political action committee (PAC). [4] The NRA-PVF operates a rating system for political candidates that assesses their support for gun-rights. It also helps its members locate an NRA Election Volunteer Coordinator (EVC) for their area and to register to vote. [5] [4] [6]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a rare endorsement of a Democrat, backing Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) in her reelection campaign. The endorsement of Peltola is the first NRA ...
Since the NRA's founding in 1871, nine of the following 28 presidents were NRA members. Of those nine, eight were Republicans while one, President John F. Kennedy, was a Democrat. The first ...
About 7 in 10 college-educated women who voted in the 2022 midterm elections supported stricter gun control laws, although less than 1 in 10 named it as the top problem facing the country ...
The NRA supported the NFA and, ultimately, the GCA. [50] After the GCA, more strident groups, such as the Gun Owners of America (GOA), began to advocate for gun rights. [ 51 ] According to the GOA, it was founded in 1975 when "the radical left introduced legislation to ban all handguns in California."
That same year, not only did the NRA give Walz an “A” rating but the gun group endorsed him over his Republican challenger. And in 2016, “Guns and Ammo” Magazine named the Democrat one of ...