King Talk: A young girl poses with a rifle on the floor of the NRA convention for her parents who were talking pictures . The NRA and its allies in the firearms industries, along with the even more militant Gun Owners of America, have together poured nearly $81 million into House, Senate, and presidential races since the 2000 election cycle, according to federal disclosures and a Center for Responsive Politics analysis done for the Center for Public Integrity. The bulk of the cash—more than $46 million—has come in the form of independent expenditures made since court decisions in 2010 (especially the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision) essentially redefined electoral politics. Those decisions allowed individuals, corporations, associations, and unions to make unlimited "independent" expenditures aimed at electing or defeating candidates in federal elections, so long as the expenditures were not "coordinated" with a candidate's actual campaign. Photo by Mark Peterson @markpetersonpixs @reduxpictures for @everydayusa #nra #assualtrifle #gun #guns #gunshow #guncontrol #everydayusa @msnbcphoto by everydayusa