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The National Rifle Association of America (NRA of America) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ b ] Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship , the modern NRA has become a prominent gun rights lobbying organization while continuing to teach firearm safety and competency.
As the NRA cuts back on federal lobbying, its troubles have created an opportunity for other gun-rights advocates to expand — especially the NSSF. The NSSF resists comparisons to the NRA ...
This list shows only the direct contributions to each campaign but does not include more substantive contributions for lobbying and outside spending. In 2016, direct contributions (in this list) totaled $1,085,100; lobbying efforts (not in this list) totaled $3,188,000; and outside spending (not in this list) totaled $54,398,558.
Longtime National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre should pay the powerful gun rights group $4.3 million in ... The verdict is the latest blow against the once impenetrable lobbying ...
The National Rifle Association, which has had its image sullied by former leader Wayne LaPierre’s spending excesses, elected Doug Hamlin as executive vice president and CEO on Monday. “Our ...
Marion P. Hammer (born April 26, 1939) is an American gun advocate and lobbyist who was the first female president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), from 1995 to 1998. Hammer has been an influential NRA lobbyist since the 1970s, and is credited with influencing many of Florida's gun laws, including the 2005 Stand your ground ...
The new leadership increased funding for its lobbying arm, the NRA-ILA, by an undisclosed amount. The NRA-ILA was given freedom to support the rights to "keep and bear arms". [7] The NRA redefined its stance on gun control, defending protections provided by the Second Amendment. Moving away from prior support for "incremental forms of gun ...
The NRA, a politically influential lobbying group that claims more than 4 million members, endorsed Trump on May 20. The NRA, a politically influential lobbying group that claims more than 4 ...