AdvertisementHow The NRA Uses Its Political Clout: An Early Lesson In OklahomaOctober 17, 2017Don GonyeafacebookEmailRep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., meets with Neal Knox, executive director of the NRA's lobbying arm, in 1981 in this photo archived at the Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections at the University of Oklahoma. (NPR)