★ Sector
Firearms & Ammunition
November 2016 – July 2025
- Orgs
- 2
- Actions
- 2
- Topics
- 1
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.
Organizations
Actions
Actions involving organizations in this sector, players affiliated with them, or sector-wide benefits.
- Trump tax law scraps the 1934 levy on silencers and short-barrel gunsGovernment ActionBeneficiaryJuly 2025
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.
- NRA spends record $30.3M to elect Trump in 2016$30.3MPrivate ActionNovember 2016