Just a quick link to a NY Times article from back in July regarding the NRA. The main point is that the group has been able to expand its impact of late because direct gun control legislation has become so politically unlikely. This has allowed them to focus their efforts on ancillary issues, sometimes gun related and sometimes not, such as when they convinced "Congressional Democrats to carve out an exemption tailor-made for the group to exclude it from the so-called Disclose Act, requiring disclosure of donors."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/us/politics/13nra.html?_r=1&ref=national_rifle_association
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