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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait a minute.

We hear from libs here all the time about how congress is in the pocket of the gun industry, how much money the gun industry has in politics, and how much the NRA influenced politicians

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And now you're telling me the second biggest receiver of NRA money only got $10,000?

Are you shitting me?!?!?!?!

That's all?!?!?!?!?!

How does the NRA control congress with piddling ass little donations like that?!?!?!

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Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! [/quote]

Yeah, compare that to what the NEA (National Educators' Association) gave the Dems.  GUffaw guffaw.[/quote]

So many exclamation points for such an ignorant set of comments.

The NRA is bound by campaign finance law.  PACs can ONLY donate ~10,000 to candidates.  Same with the NEA.

However, both of these groups can and do engage in "outside spending," or making ad buys supporting the candidate.  Comstock isn't the #1 beneficiary of NRA support in this respect, but did receive $62K in supportive spending in 2016. (https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cycle=2016&cmte=National%20Rifle%20Assn).

To get a more complete of the NRA's involvement, beyond the limited-in-amount campaign donations, you have to look at their outside spending, which is significant.  
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