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Recently I've been googling guns and gun laws a lot, mostly checking things related to questions I think up about the upcoming legislative session, licensed carry laws, etc. Most recently (about 10 minutes ago) I was looking up stats related to NICS checks.

I haven't kept a log, but I have started noticing that "smartgunlaws.org" keeps popping up as the first hit on google searches. Not as one of the sponsored web sites that appear at the top, the ones where people pay to be first, but first of the "regular" search hits.

This seems very peculiar to me.

I have not researched the lineage of "smartgunlaws.org" and the organization that owns the website, the "Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence", but they claim to have been in business for 20 years. They have a map that shows gun law ratings for the US in which most states get an "F", and a very few -- you can guess which ones -- get higher ratings.

I have not seen them at the top of searches in the past, but have started seeing it recently. As I said, I find it peculiar, and frankly wonder if Google is pushing them.

I know there are some others on here that research gun law stuff on the innertoobs, I am wondering if anyone else sees this?