WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association stepped up its lobbying activity during the first three months of the year, spending $700,000 as it sought to fend off new efforts to pass gun-safety ...

Gun laws in many states have expanded due to NRA lobbying. A selection of AR-15 style rifles for sale at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois.

New pro-gun group outpaces NRA in lobbying ... — spent nearly $1.9 million during the first three months of the year — exceeding the $700,000 reported by powerful National Rifle Association. ...

As the NRA struggles, the gun lobby has a new leader in D.C. The NSSF, the firearms industry’s biggest trade group, spent more than twice as much money on federal lobbying as the NRA last year.

The National Rifle Association has hit more turbulence since 17 people died in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ... NRA lobbying grew 61% last year to over $5 million, ...

As gun control debates raged in Congress early this year, the National Rifle Association increased its federal government lobbying expenditures to record levels, new filings with the U.S. Senate ...

The NRA and its vast network of local affiliates achieve their success through a mix of skilled local lobbying and voter mobilization. Annual report cards rate legislators on an A-to-F scale based ...

The NRA lobby spent a total of $5.12 million on its efforts in 2017, the highest amount since at least 1990, the last year for which data was available. The amount is almost double the average of ...

Carter, a longtime NRA board member, had arrived in Washington in 1975 as founding director of a new NRA lobbying unit, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).

NRA: A lobby for criminals The NRA is a twisted, paranoid organization whose main achievement is to have made law enforcement harder. By Alan Berlow. Published July 23, 2012 2:52PM (EDT) ...

Nearly four years later, the effort paid off. In an expansive June 23 ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the NRA in one of those cases, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

Because the NRA is simultaneously a lobbying firm, a campaign operation, a popular social club, a generous benefactor and an industry group, the group is a juggernaut of influence in Washington.