Essay Archive - Brief History of the NRA
Brief History of the NRA
The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun
club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army
officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in
case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia
was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that
opposes gun control, it believes in the individual defense of the uses of
firearms, and it is interested in all aspects of shooting sports.1
Today, the organization stands with approximately 3.4 million m....
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