Why are Senator Blunt and Rep Thiart for less gun restriction, you ask?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, Missourians and Kansans, look no further than this post of contributions to our representatives in Congress to know who owns your representatives' vote on weapons issues:

Gun Rights: Money to Congress

The Post Secrets website did research on what Congressional representatives received from what groups, related to weapons and came up with the fact that our own Kansas Representative Todd "Take the Money" Tiahrt and Missouri's Senator Roy "I'm Your Man" Blunt are two of the top members of Congress who took money--big bucks, actually--from these groups:

 

Candidate	Amount
McCain, John (R-AZ)	$543,386
Thune, John (R-SD)	$142,205
Young, Don (R-AK)	$138,155
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)	$122,702
Rehberg, Denny (R-MT)	$121,989
Boehner, John (R-OH)	$121,514
Barr, Bob (L)	$105,223
Kline, John (R-MN)	$100,838
Pombo, Richard W (R-CA)	$98,861
Doolittle, John T (R-CA)	$98,843
Paul, Ron (R-TX)	$98,793
Santorum, Rick (R-PA)	$96,702
Tiahrt, Todd (R-KS)	$96,477
Bachmann, Michele (R-MN)	$96,168
Blunt, Roy (R-MO)	$95,363
Allen, George (R-VA)	$94,156
Sessions, Pete (R-TX)	$94,029
Hayworth, J D (R-AZ)	$90,360
Toomey, Pat (R-PA)	$88,152
Hayes, Robin (R-NC)	$86,883