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suegeo

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20. The 2016 data went somewhere to some other sick group. It didn't disappear.
Wed Jul 17, 2024, 11:58 AM
Jul 2024

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 O’Malley, 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.

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But, but, but he was groomed by a woke bumper sticker he saw... rubbersole Jul 2024 #1
I question this Lulu KC Jul 2024 #2
I believe there is more to come out. MOMFUDSKI Jul 2024 #3
Channel 4 News has approached the Trump campaign for comment. suegeo Jul 2024 #6
They aren't going to comment on scores or even eight year old surveys LeftInTX Jul 2024 #13
Do you honestly think they profiled a 12 year old boy? That would have been his age in 2016 Bev54 Jul 2024 #4
The first line of the article says, "The family of Trump's would-be assassin..." sybylla Jul 2024 #8
The 2016 data went somewhere to some other sick group. It didn't disappear. suegeo Jul 2024 #20
Trump's secret data on all likely gun owners. C_U_L8R Jul 2024 #5
KICK suegeo Jul 2024 #7
Nobody hunts with an AK47 or whatever assault weapons. 2naSalit Jul 2024 #9
I have questioned this, too Lulu KC Jul 2024 #16
That's all they can... 2naSalit Jul 2024 #17
It's so you can penetrate the deer's body armor... blugbox Jul 2024 #21
So how do you know if someone is a gun owner kwolf68 Jul 2024 #10
His dad could well have been an NRA member and FailureToCommunicate Jul 2024 #11
I don't think this is breaking news. LeftInTX Jul 2024 #12
In 2016, the kid was only 12! They should be looking at the parents FakeNoose Jul 2024 #14
See reply 8 SilasSouleII Jul 2024 #15
The BBC Linda ladeewolf Jul 2024 #18
A Link Between NRA and Cambridge Analytica suegeo Jul 2024 #19
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