We’re winning
Open Secrets on gun money:
… pro-gun forces spent more on federal lobbying efforts in 2009 than in any year since 2002 — all told, nearly $5 million. They targeted at least some of that money at both the House and Senate versions of the “Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act,” a Center for Responsive Politics analysis indicates. Gun control advocates, meanwhile, spent a relative pittance in 2009 on federal lobbying efforts — $180,000. Most of that came from a single organization: Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The decline in gun control advocates’ lobbying power is striking: In 2001, the special interest area spent more than $2.1 million on federal lobbying efforts.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:21 am
What’s also of note is that the big bad evil NRA didn’t even make the top 20. Or the top 30.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
They were outspent by Verizon, FedEx, AFL-CIO, the National Beer Wholesalers, UPS, Teamsters, etc…the list goes on and on.