List of congressional candidates who received campaign money from the National Rifle Association

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has been standing as an interest group that supports key interests surrounding the protection of the Second Amendment in the United States. The issue of gun control has become increasingly important in American politics. Therefore, interest groups on either side of the issue have worked to back political candidates who support their interests. This has resulted in significant spikes in lobbying activity and more specifically, campaign contributions to candidates. The 2016 and 2018 election cycles, saw the National Rifle Association contribute to an extensive amount of candidates as a result of the state of the country's political landscape at the time of those cycles.

This list of United States congressional candidates who received campaign money from the National Rifle Association of America is from the nonpartisan group OpenSecrets which extracts campaign contribution data from the Federal Election Commission. It includes current as well as former representatives and senators as well as candidates for office for the 2016 and 2018 election cycles. This list shows only the direct contributions to each campaign but does not include more substantive contributions for lobbying and outside spending. In 2016, direct contributions (in this list) totaled $1,085,100; lobbying efforts (not in this list) totaled $3,188,000; and outside spending (not in this list) totaled $54,398,558. The career totals column includes all money contributed from the NRA either directly or in an effort to elect or reelect the candidate. This includes direct support payments, money spent to elect the candidate and also money used to campaign against the opposing candidate. Money, whether it be in the form of a payment or for campaigning, effectively allows the organization to control what happens in Congress.