What happened to the campaign data after 2016?
How was the data used in subsequent years?
Senator Richard Blumenthal wanted to know that too. I wonder why he penned a letter on Sept. 30, 2022 to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
I have great curiosity what the Shooting Sports response was.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/093022nssfcambridgeanalyticaletter.pdf
NSSF is a trade organization made up of all the gun manufacturers selling in
the US. Each year, they run a large campaign aimed at voter education. They call
it voter education to avoid the corporate proxy tax by directly endorsing any
candidates and focusing on issues. Pat OMalley, our contact with access to the
money, has been running this campaign for them since 2002 and it has been almost
entirely direct mail. Pat was leveraging a database of fire arms [sic] manufacturing
warranty cards (collected by the fire arms companies) to determine his targeting in
key states (millions of people, if they bought a gun, and what kind of gun they
bought).
Direct mail. No electronic trail.
Please describe what happened to the database of gun owners CA collected after the
election and the steps that were taken to protect this sensitive information from misuse or
unauthorized disclosure.
CA is Cambridge Analytica
Please provide a comprehensive list of all individuals or entities to whom NSSF has
provided information to regarding gunowners firearm purchases or warranty
registrations, including any similar engagements to the NSSF-CA engagement, for voter
education, voter registration, or election work after the 2016 election cycle.