The Powerful NRA lobby?

[Will Carry]

Here are some of the top groups and what they paid in 2017 for lobbying. Feel free to check me on this. The NRA gave Senator Burr, of NC, $9900 and the media claims the senator is in their pockets. I think the NRA spent $3,200,000 last year on lobbying. They rank 488th so what makes them so powerful? I just want you to know so you can tell your friends. At least 4 of these organizations represent the media.

National Assn of Realtors                                         $54,530,861
Business Roundtable                                               $27,380,000
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America $25,847,500
Blue Cross/Blue Shield                                             $24,330,306
American Hospital Assn                                           $22,064,214
American Medical Assn                                            $21,535,000
Alphabet Inc                                                           $18,140,000
AT&T Inc                                                                $16,780,000
Boeing Co                                                               $16,740,000
Open Society Policy Center                                       $16,110,000
DowDuPont                                                            $15,877,520
National Assn of Broadcasters                                   $15,460,000
Comcast Corp                                                         $15,310,000
Lockheed Martin                                                     $14,464,290
Amazon.com                                                           $13,000,000
Southern Co                                                           $12,970,000
National Retail Federation                                        $12,890,000
NCTA The Internet & Television Assn                        $12,790,000
Oracle Corp                                                            $12,385,000

Edited February 25, 2018 by Will Carry

[TripleGGG]

But the media knows best! Let's not mess things up with crazy stuff like facts.

 

 

[TripleGGG]

From Thehill.com

[Trekbike]

You guys stop bringing facts into the discuss, it doesn't fit the agenda...

[m16ty]

The NRA is pretty powerful, it's not the money that makes them so powerful, it's the 5 million+ votes they offer.

The line from the left these days is that the NRA represents firearm manufacturers and not gun owners, that's the biggest bunch of hogwash I've ever heard. 

[Whisper]

Do the lobbying costs include all campaign donations?  Seems to me like the NRA would contribute more than $3.2 million overall.    I may do some research on this if no one knows right offhand.

Thanks,

Whisper

[SWCUMBERLAND]

12 hours ago, Trekbike said:

You guys stop bringing facts into the discuss, it doesn't fit the agenda...

To hell with agenda, its makers and supporters.

Step up, or step aside.

SWC

[Trekbike]

4 hours ago, SWCUMBERLAND said:

To hell with agenda, its makers and supporters.

Step up, or step aside.

SWC

Not following your comment.   You do realize that was a joke towards the anti-gun folks not willing to consider actual facts in the gun control discussion?

[SWCUMBERLAND]

It's getting real tedious all this balleting about... Sooner or later, they are gonna jump on the last nerve and someone's finally gonna say "want 'em? Come get 'em. " and a try will  be made....

SWC

[m16ty]

12 hours ago, Whisper said:

Do the lobbying costs include all campaign donations?  Seems to me like the NRA would contribute more than $3.2 million overall.    I may do some research on this if no one knows right offhand.

Thanks,

Whisper

I agree, that number seems small. I wonder if that is just the NRA, not including the NRA-ILA? I’d say the vast majority of lobbying money comes from the NRA-ILA.