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madgar | 9 years ago

Why do you say that? The NRA is one of the single most powerful special interest groups in the USA. The tech industry doesn't even come close to the NRA's lobbying results.

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wtbob|9 years ago

In 2016 the NRA spent $3,188,000 (source: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=d00000008... that doesn't even make the top 20 (it's #156).

Perhaps you meant campaign donations? It donated $1,092,750, making it #427.

It is #8 in outside spending, but its $53 million is nowhere near Priorities USA's $133 million.

sgift|9 years ago

He wrote "results", so I think he targeted the fact that weapons are still essentially freely available in the USA (at least it looks that way from over here in Europe). This can be seen as really effective lobbying given how many times it has been argued that weapons shouldn't be so easily available anymore without any changes to existing laws.