Gun Owners of America

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a gun rights organization in the United States with over 300,000 members. They make efforts to differentiate themselves from the larger National Rifle Association (NRA), and have publicly criticized the NRA on multiple occasions for what the GOA considers to be the selling out of the gun rights movement.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$1,487,714 Given
Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Gun Owners of America Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$27,517,827 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Gun Owners of America

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Gun Owners of America $27,517,827
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Firearms, Guns & Ammunition,
    • Civil Rights & Civil Liberties,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Law Enforcement & Crime,
    • Government Issues,
    • Veterans Affairs,
    • Education
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.17 Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009
    H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
    H.R.1074 Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act
    H.R.1620 Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2009
    H.R.1923 Fairness in Firearm Testing Act
    S.160 District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009
    S.371 Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009
    S.556 Firearms Transfer Improvement Act
    S.669 Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
    H.R.2900 Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for Gun Owners of America Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 7 dockets; Submitted to 3 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Gun Owners of America" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.