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The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) 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.
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 National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) is a gun rights advocacy group in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] They maintain an affiliated PAC and a nonprofit legal foundation. Officially incorporated in Virginia on March 29, 2000, [ 1 ] NAGR was founded by Dudley Brown as a national companion organization to Rocky Mountain Gun Owners .
The new Massachusetts gun bill, named "An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws (H.4885)" aims to target untraceable "ghost guns," suspend the right to bear arms from people whose family members suspect ...
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 ...
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.
The National Rifle Association has publicly contradicted President Trump’s assertion that it would support a higher age limit for some gun purchases. NRA says it does not support raising gun age ...
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.