As the NRA fades, a more zealous US pro-gun group rises as a lobbying power - eviltoast
Gun Owners of America, formed in belief NRA was ‘too liberal’, spent $3.3m lobbying against gun control and boasts 2m members

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.

“The GOA was formed in the 1970s because they believed the NRA was too liberal,” said Robert Spitzer, the author of several books on guns and a professor emeritus at Suny Cortland in New York. “True to its creed, the GOA has opposed every manner of gun law and attacked the NRA at every turn.”

  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The supreme court does even have the nerve to do that when it suits them, but doesn’t give one crap about the obvious hypocrisy. The conservatives ruled recently while striking down a hundred year old gun control law in New York, that no gun regulation laws can exist unless there is proof that law or something very similar existed in the 1780’s. Well then does this mean I’m only allowed guns that existed or are very similar to what we had in the 1780’s as well? No? Ben Franklin thought I should get to open carry an AR15? Well alright then.

    The whole originalist junk has always been a load of made up bullshit conservatives use to justify whatever they already decided they wanted.