any that has historically influenced politics. the gun lobby, aka the nra. the nrment a claims mentnra cl membership organization, but they won t release their data. i m a gun owner. every year i receive a membership card from the nra with a membership number. i ve never asked for one. i ve never paid for one. but i strongly suspect that i am counted in the secret records of the nra as a member. i m not. they don t represent me and i suspect they don t represent and aren t paid for by a lot of members. the nra is the gun industry s lobby. it doesn t represent gun owners. it represents gun makers and exists to protect their profits. the same as the phrma lobby or the bank lobby or the corn lobby. strangely we all use drugs and banks and most of us eat corn, but we don t have cards that indicate our membership and ind.