Reply #19: The NRA does not lobby for gun manufacturers.

[Irreverend IX]

They lobby for their 4 million dues-paying members. Are you aware that the entire gun industry makes about $2 billion a year, while the McDonalds Corporation alone makes more than $12 billion a year? Gun manufacturing does not have a high profit margin, since guns require high-level manufacturing processes to create, they are built to last forever rather than having planned obsolescence like cell phones, and many gun owners buy used whenever possible. The NRA does not accept money from gun makers as a matter of policy; companies like Ruger and Smith & Wesson have their own lobbying groups, but these groups are small and don't have much influence.