51.   He fought the gun lobby, the tobacco racket, subsidized ranchers looking for cheap grazing rights, the AMA, and the insurance boys.

52.   He has accused the GOP of doing the bidding of the gun lobby.

53.   He accused Zimmer of answering to the gun lobby instead of the police.

54.   He reports that the gun lobby is divided into three camps on the question.

55.   He registered as a lobbyist, he noted, even before the NRA had its first people working the Hill to build the gun lobby.

56.   He is not challenging the gun lobby or the anti-abortion crowd.

57.   House Republicans, with the help of Democrats ever faithful to the gun lobby, had just pulled off the biggest political upset of the year.

58.   His fellow Republican senators, and the gun lobby itself, appear to be giving Dole plenty of maneuvering room.

59.   His speech Tuesday was devoted to the instant check, which he has long supported, as has the gun lobby.

60.   If the gun lobby is truly intent on winning new friends, it needs to abandon disingenuous rhetoric and begin attacking initiatives on substantive grounds.