# What's the opposite of the NRA?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-opposite-of-the-nra/644285 "2012-12-17T07:25:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-opposite-of-the-nra/644285/21 "2012-12-18T21:27:24Z")

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That’s for the NRA as a whole, and includes stuff like CCW training, hunting/conservation activities, litigation, and so on. The NRA-ILA, the lobbying arm, is a nominally separate entity with nominally separate accounts.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-opposite-of-the-nra/644285/22 "2012-12-20T06:14:46Z")

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[CNN says](http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/politics/nra-silence-regrouping/index.html?hpt=hp_c3)

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> According to the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, the NRA spends 66 times more on lobbying than what the Brady Campaign to End Gun violence, the country’s top gun control advocacy organization, spends. And the NRA spends 4,143 times what the Brady Campaign spends on campaign contributions, the Sunlight Foundation found.

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