Names in the News: The NRA


 

Publication Date: July 2004

Publisher: National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.)

Author(s): Denise Roth Barber

Research Area: Politics

Type: Report

Abstract:

The National Rifle Association has launched a media program, NRANews, to circumvent a new federal law limiting political advertisements by third-party groups. While its activity at the national level may be constrained by the new law, the NRA likely will remain active at the state level -- where it has given well over $3 million to state-level candidates and party committees since 1998.