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The Fall of the NRA and the Rise of More Stringent Gun Rights Groups

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(The Guardian) With the National Rifle Association fading, an even more zealous gun rights group is starting to rise as a significant lobbying power in US politics.

Peter Stone reports for the Guardian: A zealous gun rights group, even more uncompromising than the once formidable National Rifle Association, is emerging as a force in US politics with a mission to oppose efforts at gun control and ease further America’s already lax regulations on firearms.

Last year the Gun Owners of America (GOA) spent $3.3m on lobbying, a record sum for the hardline foe of gun control that now claims over 2 million members and activists, and has previously operated in the shadows of the larger NRA.

The GOA’s record lobbying spending in 2022 was spurred in part by a rise in its annual revenues, which more than tripled from $2.3m in 2016 to $8.7m in 2021, according to tax records.

The GOA is an adamant enemy of gun control measures of all stripes, and proudly calls itself the “no compromise” gun lobby. Its surge in lobbying spending reflects one way it has capitalized on the financial and legal problems of the once 5 million-member NRA in the hopes of expanding the GOA’s political clout, say gun experts.


 
My understanding was Gun Owners of America Were spending more money because they were disappointed the NRA weren't committing enough mass murders.
 
My understanding was Gun Owners of America Were spending more money because they were disappointed the NRA weren't committing enough mass murders.
That and its' the natural offshooting of MAGAism across the Right.
 

Webster
the Republicans are whining constantly about the Democrats and Biden. Your country is going to shut down and Republican Nazis don't see it as a problem. Tuberville is screwing over your military. If China decided to conquer Taiwan there wouldn't be shit your military could do
 
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