President Clinton said the gun lobby had a lot to do with his party's defeat.
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The gun lobby said it would consider lawmakers' vote on the issue in its influential rankings.
The gun lobby said it will consider lawmakers' votes on the issue in its influential rankings.
Two Democratic senators, previously fierce supporters of the gun lobby, appear to be changing their minds.
Unless this changes, the gun lobby's feminist pose may not convince anyone for long.
The vote occurred before the gun lobby formally registered its support for the contempt resolution.
But promises by all the candidates to protect the fundamental right to gun ownership won't impress the gun lobby.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have done some polling for the gun lobby and for gun control organizations.
Although rates of gun ownership, like rates of violent crime, are falling, the power of the gun lobby is not.
In an op-ed in USA Today, the two make their goal clear: to counter the influence of the gun lobby.
But the gun lobby gets its fire power from the gun manufacturers.
And the more women carry guns, the more the gun lobby will be identified with the victims of crime rather than with the criminals.
The gun lobby remains fiercely opposed to any kind of regulation.
John McCain, Mr Obama's opponent, is hardly the gun lobby's darling.
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The gun lobby has had a hand in helping to shape or steer the direction of many amendments to the overall bill, gun policy experts say.
Obama also said on Monday that the gun lobby was "ginning up" fears the federal government will use the Connecticut tragedy to seize Americans' guns.
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Proposals for stricter gun laws, in particular, seem likely to fall foul of Americans' constitutional right to bear arms, and the gun lobby's ferocious defence of it.
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Politicians frequently echo the gun lobby refrain to only "enforce the laws on the books, " refusing to admit that there are very few laws on the books.
While the gun lobby has indicated support for some improvements in background checks, it remains opposed to other steps, saying they won't prevent criminals from getting weapons.
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Mr Obama also said the gun lobby had "wilfully lied about the bill" and that a vocal minority of gun owners had "intimidated" senators into voting against the plan.
Kelly and his wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, this month launched Americans for Responsible Solutions, which seeks to raise money to counter the influence of the gun lobby.
The biggest is Mr Obama's decision not to take on the gun lobby by seeking to renew a ban on the sale of certain semi-automatic weapons which lapsed in 2004.
With Americans for Responsible Solutions engaging millions of people about ways to reduce gun violence and funding political activity nationwide, legislators will no longer have reason to fear the gun lobby.
However, smaller pro-gun groups have come out in favor of the Manchin-Toomey amendment, indicating a rift in the gun lobby over the emotional issue of taking legislative action in response to the Newtown killings.
But he also says the gun lobby, in the shape of the National Rifle Association (NRA), used to accept that there is a place for rules and regulations, and they should do so again.
It would appear to me that our greatest failure comes from elected officials continuing to pander to the gun lobby and refusing to discuss ways to strengthen our guns laws to reduce gun death and injury.
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This social-media blackout after a mass shooting is not unprecedented for the NRA. The gun lobby didn't tweet for 10 days last July following the fatal shooting of 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater.
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