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There are 538 members of the House and Congress, and Bernie was in the top 25. This is bound to come up if Bernie decides to run again in 2020.
I am surprised that a person who made a point of rejecting PAC money (except for the nurses PAC) accepted money from the NRA.
ON UPDATE: In the same year that Bernie was accepting direct donations from the NRA, he slammed Hillary for attending a fundraiser held by Jeff Forbes, a lawyer who had (till 2015) included the NRA among his lobbying clients. He said: "Hillary should stop taking NRA lobbyist money" at the same time that he was taking money directly from the NRA.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lawmakers-who-take-the-most-money-from-the-gun-rights-lobby-2017-10-03
Gun-rights groups donated nearly all their money in 2016 to candidates running for president, leaders in Congress and candidates in key Senate races. More than 98% of the contributions went to Republicans.
Other top recipients in 2016 included House Speaker Paul Ryan and swing-state senators such as Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Both senators won closely fought election battles last november to help Republicans retain control of the Senate.
The only non-Republican in the top 25: Bernie Sanders, a Senate independent whose state, Vermont, has a strong hunting tradition. He accepted $11,129 in cash. Sanders, of course, challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Partys presidential nod.
https://nypost.com/2016/03/15/bernie-slams-hillary-for-taking-money-from-nra-lobbyist/
Bernie Sanders turned the tables on Hillary Clinton on gun control Monday, questioning why shes planning to attend a March 21 fund-raiser in Washington co-hosted by a former NRA lobbyist.
Hillary Clinton should stop taking NRA lobbyist money, tweeted Sanders, linking to a Huffington Post story about Clinton accepting money raised from Jeff Forbes, a lobbyist for the NRA Institute from 2009 to 2015.