Just What the Neighborhood Needs: A New Gun-Control Group.

The NRA, on the other hand, had connections to gun owners all over the country by dint of sponsoring shooting matches at various public ranges, as well as having display booths at hundreds of gun shows which were held in just about all 50 states. The NRA’s public presence and lobbying efforts were so much a part of the sporting and shooting landscape, that Bill Clinton’s <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/how-bill-clintons-statement-al-gores-2000-presidential-concession-evolved/359196/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">declaration</a> about how Al Gore lost the 2000 election because the NRA beat him in his home state of Tennessee went unchallenged for the next twenty years. The NRA’s dominance of the gun debate, however, was shattered by the massacre at Sandy Hook, as well as the appearance and growth of well-financed gun-control efforts, chief among <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/opinion/bloomberg-watts-gun-control-initiative/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">them</a> Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown and its alliance with Shannon Watts and her MOMS group. <a href="https://mikeweisser.medium.com/just-what-the-neighborhood-needs-a-new-gun-control-group-de770694ae98">Click Here</a>