About the authors

Mauricio Zinardi‌

Dr Maurizio Zanardi is a Reader in Economics at Lancaster, and also one of the co-directors of the European Trade Study Group. His research interests are in international trade and political economy.

This article was written with Francisco Pino, postdoctoral researcher in Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laurent Bouton, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Georgetown University, and Paola Concini, Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

The power of gun-rights lobbies like the NRA may not only lie in their deep pockets, but also in the fact that their members are single-issue voters.

This article was first published in The Conversation. Read the original article.