• Legislative proposals and policies pertaining to illegal gun trafficking and the dissemination of ATF gun trace data, including HR 4900; legislative proposals to authorize the Department of Justice to block gun sales to persons identified as terror suspects, including S. 1237, HR 2074 and HR 1167; legislative proposals to require occasional gun sellers to run instant background checks, including HR 96 and S. 2237;legislative proposals to require gun dealers to perform criminal background checks on all gun-handling employees, including HR 6676; legislative proposals to prevent gun dealers whose licenses have been revoked from continuing to sell their inventory, including HR 6664.

Duration: May 1, 2007 to January 31, 2009

General Issues: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $40,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate