All the "thoughts and prayers" congresspeople who took money from the NRA

I looked at the wrong thing. They spent $22.6 million with 99% of it in support of the GOP. The full breakdown is here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00053553

About $17 million was on political ads, and another $2 million was on mailed out materials. Here’s the beakdown by candidate for that media:
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https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00053553

The other associated ad spending for the $52.6 million total is from the other NRA 501c which is the $35 million.
https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C90013301&cycle=2016

$12.3 million of it was spent against HRC alone.

EDIT

And if you expand to outside the NRA alone, here is (most of) the money the gun lobbying industry donated to candidates in 2016:

And here is the total spent on gun controll:

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