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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
82 filings
$48.9M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
82 filings
$48.9M on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 1,326 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 131114th CongressTo amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.18 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1316114th CongressVeterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 201518 filingsthrough 2016
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: national-rifle-association-of-america.
23 filings · 2014–2020
$660K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
FIR
80 filings
$48.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
75 filings
$47.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$14.8M on those filings
Constitution
CON
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$40K 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.
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.
Brandi Graham PensoneauNational Rifle Association of America
51 filingsthrough 2020
David LehmanNational Rifle Association of America49 filingsthrough 2019
Chris W CoxNational Rifle Association of America48 filingsthrough 2019
Susan RecceNational Rifle Association of America46 filingsthrough 2020
Jack ThompsonNational Rifle Association of America43 filingsthrough 2024
Gordon M SpeedNational Rifle Association of America39 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin CassidyNational Rifle Association of America32 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew SchafleNational Rifle Association of America31 filingsthrough 2025
James HollandNational Rifle Association of America30 filingsthrough 2022
Stephen AaronNational Rifle Association of America30 filingsthrough 2015
Charles H CunninghamNational Rifle Association of America30 filingsthrough 2015
Joshua SavaniNational Rifle Association of America29 filingsthrough 2024
Erica Tergeson RhoadNational Rifle Association of America28 filingsthrough 2022
Alex LargeNational Rifle Association of America25 filingsthrough 2025
Michael E WilliamsMike Williams Capitol Strategies LLC (F/K/A Mw Capitol Strategies LLC)24 filingsthrough 2020
Christopher Lacey BilesNational Rifle Association of America23 filingsthrough 2016
James Jay BakerNational Rifle Association of America20 filingsthrough 2015
Hadan HatchNational Rifle Association of America19 filingsthrough 2026
Todd AdkinsNational Rifle Association of America19 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffrey FreemanNational Rifle Association of America18 filingsthrough 2013
John FrazerNational Rifle Association of America18 filingsthrough 2013
Wade CallenderNational Rifle Association of America13 filingsthrough 2022
James AtkinsonNational Rifle Association of America13 filingsthrough 2017
Darren LasorteNational Rifle Association of America13 filingsthrough 2013
Jason LawrenceNational Rifle Association of America11 filingsthrough 2017
R DAVID FRASH iiiNational Rifle Association of America11 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 2 of 38 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
