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This includes direct support payments, money spent to elect the candidate and also money used to campaign against the opposing candidate. Money, whether it be in the form of a payment (bribe) or for campaigning, effectively allows the organization to control what happens in Congress.
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]
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 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 ...
The NRA's Political Victory Fund super PAC spent $11.2 million in the 2012 election cycle, [87] and as of April 2014, it had raised $13.7 million for 2014 elections. [88] Michael Bloomberg's gun-control super PAC, Independence USA, spent $8.3 million in 2012 [89] [90] and $6.3 million in 2013. [91]
Even diminished, the NRA still dwarfs the NSSF in terms of overall revenue and membership, and it remains a heavyweight in electoral politics, having recently hosted former President Donald Trump.
Although he voted for the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act, a bill supported by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) that passed the Senate 79–15, Biden also authored the 1993 federal assault weapons ban, and is a longtime supporter of universal background checks, and received "F" ratings from the NRA while he was in Congress. [91]