Cenk Uygur
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Powerful Lobbying Group Secretly Tracks Gun Owners
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August 24, 2013
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August 24, 2013
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2:29Now Playing"The National Rifle Association has rallied gun owners — and raised tens of millions of dollars — campaigning against the threat of a national database of firearms or their owners.
But in fact, the sort of vast, secret database the NRA often warns of already exists, despite having been assembled largely without the knowledge or consent of gun owners. It is housed in the Virginia offices of the NRA itself. The country's largest privately held database of current, former, and prospective gun owners is one of the powerful lobby's secret weapons, expanding its influence well beyond its estimated 3 million members and bolstering its political supremacy."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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