{"id":2294,"date":"2007-10-30T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/former-gun-lobbyist-says-nra-aims-mostly-for-money\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:40:10","slug":"former-gun-lobbyist-says-nra-aims-mostly-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/former-gun-lobbyist-says-nra-aims-mostly-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gun Lobbyist Says NRA Aims Mostly for Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey H. Birnbaum &#8211; Former Gun Lobbyist Says NRA Aims Mostly for Money &#8211; washingtonpost.com<br \/>\n&#8220;Richard Feldman is a rarity &#8212; a former gun lobbyist who is publicly taking a shot at the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, &#8220;Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist,&#8221; Feldman accuses the powerful NRA of being in business primarily to raise money for itself and its executives, and of using self-defeating scare tactics to keep its coffers full.&#8221;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/29\/AR2007102902121.html?wpisrc=newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey H. Birnbaum &#8211; Former Gun Lobbyist Says NRA Aims Mostly for Money &#8211; washingtonpost.com &#8220;Richard Feldman is a rarity &#8212; a former gun lobbyist who is publicly taking a shot at the National Rifle Association. In his new book, &#8220;Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist,&#8221; Feldman accuses the powerful NRA of being in business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/former-gun-lobbyist-says-nra-aims-mostly-for-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Gun Lobbyist Says NRA Aims Mostly for Money<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}