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-  $30 M from the NRA towards the presidential campaign
-The Guardian

- "You came through for me and I am going to come through for you"
- 99th day of Trumps presidency, pleading towards the NRA

-Trump wants teachers to have guns i favour of stopping school shootings before the police i able to arrive - CNBC

- Allowance to buy semi automatic guns should be raised to 21 (as handguns) instead of 18.

"The eight-year assault on your second amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. You have a true friend and champion in the White House. No longer will federal agencies be coming after law-abiding gun owners. No longer will the government be trying to undermine your rights and your freedoms as Americans."-Theguardian

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First National Bank of Omaha was among the first businesses to rescind their donations to the NRA. This happened only eight days after the school-shooting in Florida when 17 people got killed with an AR-15 rifle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/business/nra-companies-boycott.html
The corporations are becoming more aware in the way that they are responsive to political outcries and scandals, which possibly could affect their company and their brands. This can be the reason why many corporations have rescinded their donations to the NRA.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/nra-discounts-corporations/554264/
The four biggest sponsors of the NRA is gun producents. The biggest one is the manufacturer of the AR-15 rifle.
http://www.friendsofnra.org/Corporate-Sponsors.aspx

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Charlton Heston (1923 - 2008) was born in Illinois, USA. He became an actor in Hollywood, and over 50 years he acted in 100 films.
However he also had a very political life. In 1963 he supported Martin Luther King in liberty demonstrations.
After the killing of president Kennedy, Heston proposed to the congress a strict gun-law that could control the many weapons in USA.
In the 1980's Heston changed his political view and became more conservative rather than liberal.
Charlton Heston became president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the years of 1998-2003.
He restored the legacy of NRA. With more involvement in the political front.
Heston's NRA took a hard line against any and all forms of gun control.
https://www.shmoop.com/right-to-bear-arms/charlton-heston-nra.html
In a speech before the NRA (year of 2000) he held a rifle over his head and said the following "From my cold, dead hands". By this he refers to the gun-protestors, who cannot force a gun-control, that eventually will take his guns away. This clearly describes the views of Heston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw

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The American Frontier is often seen as this wasteland of small villages, where people ride on horses carrying fire arm to protect oneself against external threads such as Indians and other Americans seeking to undertake one’s territory.

However, this is not the case and is a made-up picture by Hollywood films. This fantasy is often referred to as “The Wild West”. Gun control is an old phenomenon in the American frontier and as early as in October 1881 the Marshall Vergil Earp of Tombstone in Arizona (before it was declared a state) ran a gun control to protect the citizens from a conflict. (Jancer, Matt: “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West”, Smithsonian, 2018).

Furthermore, according to a professor of history Stephen Aron there were actually passed laws to prohibit the carry of guns in towns. This was done in 1878 in Kansas in Dodge City by a government. Many other incidents of gun legislation were present in the Old West, what made it quite less Wild. (Jancer, Matt: “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West”, Smithsonian, 2018).

Moreover, another article (Tucker, Jennifer: “Gun control is steeped in American Frontier”, Timesunion, 2015) mention other arguments worth mentioning. Firstly, it is said that no gun-control law was more common in the late 1800s — on the frontier and elsewhere — than bans on concealed weapons. The first bans on possession of concealed weapons in public were adopted in Kentucky

and Louisiana in 1813.

Additionally, to further underline the presence of gun control in towns and states back in the 1800’s pictures such as bellow is visual proof that gun control was existing at this time.

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One of the reasons why the NRA has such a large impact on the matter of bearing weapons is their huge budget. As of 2017 their total yearly budget amounts to $250 million and their official yearly spendings on lobbying amount to around $3 million. This number has gradually increased over the years. However, most of their transactions are quite difficult to track.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35261394
This is as they, by lobbying, pay for the support of politicians on the matter of gun law. Consequently, they have a huge saying on the political agenda in the US. Furthermore, the NRA publically grades politicians from A to F on how gun-friendly they are which also has a large effect on the poll numbers and can even cost a candidate his/her seat. (same source as above)

In the 2016 election gun lobbyist donated $5.900.000 to republicans and $106.000 to democrats. The Center for Responsive Politics (a think-tank) found that in 2016 more than half of the members in the House of Representatives were paid by the NRA or other gun right groups. https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/gun-lobbying-spending-in-america-congress/
Additionally, they spent around $11,5 million to support Donald Trump and another $19,7 million to oppose Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/nra-contributions-politicians-senators/

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"A gun is just a tool, Marian. It's as good or bad as the man uses it".
- from the movie SHANE

-       Independence

-       The American frontier
American hero, a man that was coarse, strong, practical, inventive and intent on being free and independent.

The fact that the Wild West period in the US us still rather recent, has been given as a reason for the special passion that many Americans seem to have for guns. During this period, the frontier of western civilisation was pushed still further west, and weapons were necessary for survival both because hunting animals was an integral part of that survival, and because there were often violent conflicts with the native peoples and other settlers.

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School shooting in 2018: Nikolas Cruz was a heavily armed man that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

The young generation wants changes - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/feb/28/florida-students-on-gun-control-we-wont-stop-until-we-get-change-video

Trump recommended that teachers should be armed and on 10th of march 2018 the Florida passes Gun-Control Laws that include that teachers are allowed to have guns on them - https://www.npr.org/2018/03/10/592647821/florida-passes-gun-control-laws

- No bump stocks
- More health services and school security
- Changed from the age of 18 to 21
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/florida-gun-bill.html