Gabby Giffords' super PAC received several six-figure donations. Giffords' group raises $6.6 million

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords’ gun control super PAC brought in $6.6 million in the first six months of 2013, according to reports filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.

Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, which also has a tax-exempt nonprofit arm that is not required to disclose its fundraising, received $3.2 million of its total haul from small-dollar donors who gave less than $200.


Several six-figure donations, including a $250,000 check from the law firm owned by Steve and Amber Mostyn — who gave more about $5 million to Democrats in 2012 — also boosted the group.

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Steve Mostyn, who is friends with Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, serves as treasurer for the super PAC.

The super PAC spent less than $2 million in the first half of the year, and still has $4.8 million in the bank. Combined with its nonprofit, the group had already raised $11 million in four months, POLITICO previously reported.

Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tuscon, Ariz. in 2011, and Kelly created the group in January following the Newtown shooting to compete with the National Rifle Association.

The former Arizona Democrat has been actively lobbying Congress all year to pass gun control reform such as the Manchin-Toomey legislation, which ultimately failed in the Senate in April.