Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1112116th CongressEnhanced Background Checks Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1585116th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: everytown-for-gun-safety-action-fund-formerly-mayors-against-illegal-guns.
116th Congress
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 137113th CongressFix Gun Checks Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 452113th CongressGun Trafficking Prevention Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3076116th CongressFederal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4240115th CongressPublic Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4320114th CongressNICS Denial Notification Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1076114th CongressDenying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1217114th CongressPublic Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 179113th CongressGun Trafficking Prevention Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 54113th CongressStop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC37 filingsthrough 2021
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLC24 filingsthrough 2021
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff24 filingsthrough 2018
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC19 filingsthrough 2020
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Special Assistant13 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
