Revealed: e-mails show that NRA shaped gun policy at interior department
The National Rifle Association has used its connections in the Trump administration to influence decisions
In the fall of 2017, a National Rifle Association lobbyist named Benjamin Cassidy left his job at the influential gun group. His next stop: a top position at the US interior department, which oversees hundreds of millions of acres of federal land across the country.
Once in office, it didn’t take Cassidy long to turn around and use his new government gig to provide his long-time NRA colleagues with special access to the powerful federal agency, as revealed by previously unreleased communications obtained by the Guardian.