In the midtermelections of 1994 Speaker of the House Tom Foley was defeated. He was the first Speaker of the House to lose an election in more than a hundred years, and he was the #1 target of the NRA, the most powerful political lobby on earth.

The organization dates back to the 1800s, but didn't become politically proactive until the early 1970s.

I posted earlier in this thread that conservative Supreme Court Justice called their campaign to establish a misleading interpretation of the Second Amendment as one of the biggest frauds on the American public by special interest groups.