Home Leverage
反銃規制側の気勢が止みません。leverageはもちろん「てこの力」ですが，比喩的に「影響力」という意味があります。これにhomeが付くと，「地元の影響力」という意味になります。（Minnesota）
Gun Makers Use Home Leverage in Connecticut
Gun owners packed a hearing room in the Connecticut capital, vowing to oppose a bill that would require new markers on guns so that they are easier to trace.
A woman at a memorial to victims of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. A firearm industry trade group has its headquarters in Newtown.
One after another, they testified that the technology, called microstamping, was flawed and would increase the cost of guns.
But the witness who commanded the most attention in Hartford that day in 2009 was a representative of one of Connecticut’s major employers: the Colt Manufacturing Company, the gun maker.
