I googled a bit in order to find some websites detailing the NRA's behind the scenes stuff against enforcement, but it proved impractical to find non-partisan sources within my time budget. Too bad everything goes partisan in the U.S..Originally Posted by carl
I found some (in part quite old and thus not affected by the recent debate) items, though:
http://www.potowmack.org/enffable.html
http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pd...est-friend.pdf
(I didn't read them fully, as it's quite late. In case you think they're too partisan on the 'other' side, keep in mind it's not advisable to avoid cognitive dissonance by consuming friendly partisan's products only.)
Concerning your assumption of NRA consistency and non-hypocrisy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUDJuC4Bc4#!
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Sometimes I wonder why lobbyism in the U.S. is so very little subtle.
There's a lot of lobbyism everywhere, and to be expected everywhere, but the U.S. keeps producing a lot of extreme examples.
Maybe it's the importance of money in politics, maybe it's because they get away with it, maybe it's simple poor lobbyist professionalism?
We have a couple of lobbyism scandals per year in Germany, but in my opinion they're about relatively subtle methods - save for a few usual suspects.
There's no lobbyism organisation with a central and overtly powerful role like NRA or AIPAC in Germany. The Catholic and Protestant churches, the labour union top organisation and the car driver club probably come the closest, but they couldn't keep a single major politician from being re-elected (might work with unknown backbenchers maybe).
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