Anti-Gun Groups Outspend Opponents In Senate Gun Bill Push

By Tom Knighton

Over and over again, anti-gunners lament the power of the National Rifle Association. The NRA, they say, buys politicians by the gross and then never lets them do anything but oppose gun control. In fact, the NRA is occasionally held up as proof that money in politics is a terrible thing and more should be done to curtail the free speech of Americans who band into groups to pool their resources on legislative issues.

However, gun control groups outspent the NRA in the 2018 midterm elections. They outspent them by a good bit, and yet the NRA is still accused of buying politicians.

Well, it happened again.

Prominent gun control groups are airing six-figure ad campaigns to pressure Republican Senators to take up gun bills, while the nation’s leading gun rights organization is practically invisible.

In the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in early August, Giffords, run by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), a survivor of gun violence, launched a nearly $750,000 ad campaign urging Republican senators to pass the House’s universal background checks bill. The Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety followed that up with a $1 million ad campaign urging action on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms