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Especially for the Republicans, a 58-year-old grandmother of two is a nontraditional party boss. But Tanya Metaksa is a sharpshooter, political and otherwise. She spent last Thanksgiving morning with her family at an indoor target range. The rest of the time, she picks off gun-control advocates. Metaksa was cast out of the gun lobby in 1980 because she was too hard-line, but returned in 1993 as scrappy and unrepentant as ever. She expanded the association's in-house phone bank to 75 lines and made the N.R.A. one of 1994's largest political givers--$5.6 million...
...capitalizing on the N.R.A.'s poor internal voter turnout. Though some 33% of members are eligible to vote, just 7% cast ballots. N.R.A. leaders went to great lengths last week in Phoenix to deny any serious rupture within the board. And despite speculation that hard-liners Knox and Metaksa might try to wrest control of the board from the somewhat more moderate helmsmanship of Washington and LaPierre, no putsch transpired. "The N.R.A. plays political games hard, inside and outside, but we are like a big family," says Knox. "Woe be unto you if you say something bad about our mama...
...passed a CCW liberalization measure by a vote of 23 to 7. And soon John Wesley Anderson's permit forms in Colorado may be outmoded: this week the Denver legislature plans to consider a lenient limit on concealed guns. "It's a tidal wave," says a delighted Tanya K. Metaksa, head lobbyist for the National Rifle Association...
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