New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg released a letter today he sent to the National Rifle Association, asking for answers in the wake of discoveries about a paid gun lobby spy in the gun control movement.

Click on the images below, or read it in pdf here.

See also Mother Jones magazine’s coverage here.

UPDATE: See also coverage in the AP:

A Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey demanded Thursday that the National Rifle Association respond to charges it placed a paid spy in rival gun-control organizations for more than a decade.

The powerful firearms lobby has remained silent since reports broke last week that gun-control activist Mary McFate, 62, of Sarasota, Fla., was allegedly snooping on several of the nonviolence groups for the NRA.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg asked the NRA to confirm or deny the charge; reveal what she was paid, if anything; disclose the names of any other informants in the gun-control movement; and put a stop to the practice.

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