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The rise of gun control groups ahead of the 2018 midterms resulted in the NRA being outspent by its opponents for the first time. It retook the spending advantage in 2020, but with a sum ...
The NRA has been accused of insufficiently defending African-American gun rights and of providing muted and delayed responses in gun rights cases involving black gun owners. [341] Others argue that the NRA's inaction in prominent gun rights cases involving black gun owners is a consequence of their reluctance to criticize law enforcement ...
A year before gun rights groups sued to stop California from collecting information on firearms ownership, the NRA's chief researcher acknowledged that its advocacy prevents accurate studies.
Gun rights groups spent over $15.1 million lobbying in Washington D.C. in 2013, with the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) spending $6.7 million, and the NRA spending $3.4 million. [96] Gun control groups spent $2.2 million, with MAIG spending $1.7 million, and the Brady Campaign spending $250,000 in the same period.
Advocates for stronger gun control measures counter that the trade association is simply masquerading as a more reasonable gun-rights group than the NRA while holding equally hard-line positions.
The career totals column includes all monies contributed from the NRA either directly or in an effort to elect or reelect the candidate. [12] This includes direct support payments, money spent to elect the candidate and also money used to campaign against the opposing candidate.
Big supporters of the NRA, like Cruz, may well know this, given that it was the NRA that sued Chicago over its old handgun ban and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled the ...
Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture is a book by American author and academic Alexandra Filindra. [a] Published in 2023 by the University of Chicago Press, and part of its Chicago Studies in American Politics series, [1] the book explores the historical trajectory of American gun culture, tracing it back to the nation's founding era.