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How Gun Lobbyists Fed Customer Data to Cambridge Analytica

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ProPublica has been reporting on the way gun lobbies, gun stores, and gun manufacturers abuse customer privacy and data for years .

The National Shooting Sports Foundation built a database of gun owners in the U.S. from the 1980s until now.

It turned the information over to the now-disgraced political consulting group Cambridge Analytica .

The analytics firm cross-referenced the customer database from the NSSF with other information it had gathered.

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