snarf, if you had checked the link, the NRA was not in the top 50 lobbyists by dollar in the USA.  Just as the gun homicide rate is about half of what it was in 1993 in the USA.  Just as the gun homicide rate is much higher in the USA than other "Western" nations.  But if I remember correctly, the homicide rate by knife in the USA is higher than the gun homicide rates in other "Western" nations.  I don't know where you go to get "well established" info but I tend to look at the actual stats.