National Rifle Association of America,… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Rifle Association of America, Institute for Legislative Action
Virginia
34 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2018 · latest filed Jan 19, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 151 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 367115th CongressHearing Protection Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 38115th CongressConcealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
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-institute-for-legislative-action.
NAT
22 filings
$1.3M 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.
115th Congress
Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 446115th CongressConstitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 59115th CongressHearing Protection Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 733115th CongressSportsmen's Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 131114th CongressTo amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1316114th CongressVeterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 327114th CongressPolar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 402114th CongressNational Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 528114th CongressRecreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 578114th CongressRecreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 697114th CongressAfrican Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
