No-nonsense gun control in the US. It really does exist.

[Shamash]

25. When you add it all up

Direct contributions, advertising dollars, all of it, the NRA gets about 6% of its revenue from gun makers and gun dealers. At least according to figures compiled by third-party watchdog groups and gun control organizations like the Violence Policy Center.

So as a rough guess, they are 6% concerned about gun manufacturer's profits and 94% concerned about some other source of revenue. With 300 million guns in circulation in the US, every gun manufacturer in the world could disappear and they'd still have enough guns in circulation to stay in business until the sun burns out.

The NRA's lobbying budget is also on par with that of the American Dental Association. Their power is not the power of the NRA, it is that they are the loudest (if sometimes deranged) voice speaking for the what, 80 million? gun owners in the US.

It's a shame there is no other voice to represent the interests of these 80 million voters. Kind of a tragedy when you consider that at least 30% of that 80 million are Democrats. And here I was believing that Republicans were the tone-deaf experts at alienating voting blocs.

Practically speaking, exactly which candidate for 2016 is going to take a strong stand like you propose and effectively demand that those 80 million people from both parties vote for someone else? Because a stance like that certainly won't get gun owners to vote for that person.