Firearms & Ammunition

Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of firearms, ammunition, suppressors, and related accessories, together with the trade associations and advocacy organizations that represent the industry and lobby on firearms policy and federal firearms regulation.

• National Rifle Association

  Advocacy Group
• National Shooting Sports Foundation

  Advocacy Group

Actions involving organizations in this sector, players affiliated with them, or sector-wide benefits.

• Government ActionBeneficiary

  July 2025
  Trump tax law scraps the 1934 levy on silencers and short-barrel guns
  National Rifle AssociationNational Shooting Sports Foundation

  The firearms industry — makers and dealers of silencers, short-barreled rifles and shotguns — benefits from the elimination of the $200 federal tax that had applied to these products since 1934, a change critics estimated as a $1.7 billion boost to gun sales.

• Private Action

  November 2016
  NRA spends record $30.3M to elect Trump in 2016$30.3M
  National Rifle Association

• Donations In, Favors Out