Gun Political Lobbies bringing in the Money

[GeneCC]

Together, newly formed super PACs launched by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg brought in about $8.6 million during the first half of the year, a Center for Public Integrity review of federal records shows.

While gun rights advocates have long been a robust and deep-pocketed political machine, this big money explosion is an unprecedented phenomenon on the gun control side. In any of the last three federal election cycles, gun control interest group spending did not top $70,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The National Rifle Association has also had a big year, raising more than three times the money this year compared to the same time frame in 2011, the Center’s analysis indicates.

So, too, has the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm industry trade association based in Newtown — where 20 children and six adults were shot and killed in December — has raised nearly $188,000 through its PAC this year, nearly six times its receipts at the same point in the 2012 cycle.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/...nted-cash-2013

[GeneCC]

In any of the last three federal election cycles, gun control interest group spending did not top $70,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

I don't buy this low ball figure.

I sure don't think that "In Kind Contributions" from Hollywood are less than two magnitudes of order less (ie, AT LEAST $7,000,000 in free publicity and lobbying from liberal Actors on Capital hill through their movies, public comments and so on). It ain't cheap to hire an Actor - they may be for sale but not at the pedestrian prices.

I think, instead, that we're seeing who pays what....

Additionally, Bloomberg has provided his group, Independence USA PAC, with more than $2 million during the same period. He is the group’s only funder.

Gifford's group has been well heeled by various donors.... I recall reading one donor who shoveled $20,000,000 at AFRS to "get it started".

Meanwhile the NRA gets $25 here and $500 there because it's a grassroots outfit and not a vehicle for Police State nonsense funded by elitists.

[GeneCC]

So, too, has the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm industry trade association based in Newtown — where 20 children and six adults were shot and killed in December — has raised nearly $188,000 through its PAC this year, nearly six times its receipts at the same point in the 2012 cycle.

Yeah, and Franklyn Roosevelt tossed Americans of Japanese ancestry into Concentration Camps.

Two can play at the "History Game".

[ungawa]

Meanwhile the NRA gets $25 here and $500 there because it's a grassroots outfit and not a vehicle for Police State nonsense funded by elitists.

No, the NRA is "Big Gun Lobby," don't you read the news? They represent the Big Gun Industry.


/sarcasm

[Kabloosh]

No, the NRA is "Big Gun Lobby," don't you read the news? They represent the Big Gun Industry.


/sarcasm

It's not like the gun industry would go anywhere if the civilian population couldn't buy guns anymore anyways. I mean seriously, how else is the government going to get all those guns out of civilian hands anyways?