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National Rifle Association (NRA)

11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA, 22030, (703) 267-1000

http://www.nra.org
The NRA is the country’s largest and most powerful gun-owners’ lobby group, and it opposes gun control in any form. While the NRA is officially non-partisan, it supports a legislative and policy agenda aimed at furthering its mission and contributes substantially to candidates that support its goals in national, state, and local legislative races. According to the NRA, even as gun-ownership has risen, the crime rate has fallen. “Throughout the 1990s, NRA strongly supported successful initiatives in a variety of states to increase prison sentences for violent offenders and reduce parole, and during the last several years encouraged Project Exile-type programs which throw the book at felons who illegally possess firearms.”