National Rifle Association of America
In the late 20th century, the NRA began to change.  There was civil unrest in the 1960s in America, and President John F. Kennedy was killed with a firearm.  Many people began to want guns to protect their own households.  In 1971, federal agents from the government's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms killed an NRA member because he had illegal weapons.  In 1975, the NRA started its political lobbying group, the Institute for Legislative Action.  Lobbying is when an organization sends lawyers and other people to talk to politicians so they will write laws the organization wants and talk to voters so they will elect politicians who will do what the organization wants.  Around this time, the United States Supreme Court made it much easier for organizations to make campaign contributions.  Politicians use campaign contribution money to pay for TV ads and posters and other ways of talking to voters.  Politicians with lots of campaign contributions have an easier time winning elections.  The NRA began fundraising so it could give money to politicians who promised to oppose gun control laws and let people own as many guns as they wanted to buy.  Slowly, the NRA became more about politics than about gun education.