With recent mass shootings there has been a heated debate on gun control laws- just this week the Senate failed to pass a law for background checks. Senator Dianne Feinstein led the push for the assault weapons ban in 1994 and has tried to gain support to bring it back. She has not had much luck in getting fellow democrats to help and said that a huge change from 1994 to now was that the NRA is much more powerful and influential, making it harder to pass any new gun laws.
What are a few things the NRA can do to influence the public and senators? What makes them so powerful?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/politics/for-feinstein-gun-control-measures-defeat-was-personal.html?hpw
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