41.   Democrats were quick to note the influence of the gun lobby and pointed out that Sen. Craig is a board member of the NRA.

42.   Earlier in an interview, Feinstein said she had underestimated the power of the gun lobby when she first took them on last fall.

43.   Even before the verdict, the gun lobby was so nervous it had begun appealing to gun-friendly state legislatures to pass measures aimed at blocking lawsuits.

44.   Feinstein acknowledged that her more sweeping measure has almost no chance to pass the current Congress, saying that the most powerful lobby in Washington is the gun lobby.

45.   For more than three decades, gun-control advocates have pressed lawmakers for stiffer measures, but the gun lobby ensured that they got nowhere in Congress.

46.   For another, he owes too many favors to the gun lobby.

47.   Gun control groups say the fears of gun show operators are a result of scare tactics by the gun lobby.

48.   Gun registration is the flash point for the gun lobby.

49.   Gore and the Democrats charged that the GOP leadership is holding up legislation because of pressure from the gun lobby.

50.   Gun lobbies are wrong.