National Rifle Association

Pages of footnotes are meaningless if they simply indicate that the author used untrustworthy sources him- or herself Check some of the sources to verify that they are accurate and unbiased. For example, a book on gun laws that relies heavily on material published by the National Rifle Association is not as reliable a source as another book on the subject that uses a wide variety of sources representing both sides of the issue. 

Not surprisingly, the National Rifle Association disagrees with the gun/car analogy ... 

Quoted from National Rifle Association Instimte for Legislative Action. Fact Sheet Firearm Safety in America 2003. Available online. URL http //www. nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx ID=120. Posted on September 8, 2003. Philip Cook, quoted in David Phinney et al. Gun Fight Seeking a Cease-Fire. ABC News online. Available online. URL http //abcnewsgo.com/sections/us/ DailyNews/guns damage.html. Posted on June 8, 1999. 

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is established. It initially focuses on improving marksmanship to ensure proper national defense. 

Veteran movie actor Charlton Heston is elected president of the National Rifle Association, in what is viewed by many gun control advocates as an attempt to rehabilitate the organization s somewhat tarnished image. 

May 28 Fortune magazine names the National Rifle Association as the top lobbying organization in the United States, citing its success in the 2000 elections. 

Charlton Heston, Academy Award-winning movie actor, best known for his star roles in Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Elected president of the National Rifle Association in 1998. In electing him president, the NRA probably wanted to harness Heston s appeal as a moral icon and patriarch, particularly to older and more conservative Americans. Heston roused the crowd at annual NRA meetings by holding up a rifle and shouting from my cold, dead hands By most accounts he was an effective spokesperson and fund-raiser for the organization. In 2002 the 78-year-old Heston was diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease and announced he would retire from his position with the NRA when his one-year term ended. 

Tanya Metaksa, executive director of the National Rifle Association s lobbying unit, the Institute for Legislative Action. Articulate, intense, and energetic, Metaksa is often found on the front lines of the pundit circuit when gun control legislation is being debated in Congress. Metaksa s prominent role in the NRA leadership may also reflect the organization s conscious effort in recent years to appeal to women. 

National Rifle Association (NRA) The United States s oldest and largest gun rights organization with more than 2 million members. As a gun lobby to Congress and state legislatures, it has been extraordinarily effective, at least until recent years, in blocking new federal and many state gun control proposals. 

Another approach is to take a guess at the organization s likely Web address. For example, the National Rifle Association is commonly known by the acronym NRA, so it is not a surprise that the organization s web site is at www.nra.org. (Note that noncommercial organization sites normally use the. mrg suffix, government agencies use. goal, educational institutions have. edu, and businesses use. com.) This technique can save time but does not always work. 

Armed Citizens and Police Officers. National Rifle Association, Institute for Legislative Action. Available online. URL http //www.nraila.org/Issues/ Articles/Read.aspx ID=30. Posted on July 16, 1999. Compilation of incidents where armed citizens helped police officers subdue criminals. 

Anderson, Jack. Inside the NRA Armed and Dangerous, An Expose. Beverly Hills, Calif. Dove Books, 1996. Takes on the National Rifle Association, which prizewinning investigative reporter Jack Anderson believes has become an extremist group that lobbies against reasonable gun control measures. 

National Rifle Association. Davidson describes the evolution of the NRA from an organization oriented toward promoting marksmanship to the United States s most powerful gun lobby in battles against gun control proposals in Congress. 

VandeHei, Jim. On the Hill Guns n Poses. The New Republic, June 28, 1999, p. 15. Points out the little-recognized fact that about 50 House Democrats follow the National Rifle Association s lead and usually vote with Republicans against gun measures. The Democratic leadership often does not push hard for gun control for fear of alienating these members, who are generally Southern conservatives, or causing them to lose their seats. 

Right to Carry 2004. National Rifle Association, Institute for Legislative Action. Available online. URL http //www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/ Read.aspx ID=18. Posted on September 11, 2003. Lists the states that have laws allowing for concealed carrying of a gun. Thirty-four states now have permissive shall issue laws Alabama and Connecticut have what the NRA calls fair discretionary carry laws Alaska and Vermont respect the right to carry without a permit. Sixty-four percent of Americans now live in states that have a right to carry. 

Source National Rifle Association. Compendium of State Firearms Laws. Available online. Posted on URL http //www.nraila.org. 

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Affinity groups. They are made up of people with nonemployment-related common interests, e.g., the National Rifle Association or the American Painted Horse Association. 

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Reprinted with permission of the National Rifle Association. 

For three dollars more, 10, you can get a membership in the National Rifle Association. You also get 12 1.00 issues of the American Rifleman. 

Ill bet they enjoy scare projaaganda, hoping it will panic us and make us rush out to buy more guns. And we do. As far back as 1970 the National Rifle Association estimated that there were 200 million guns in civilian hands in the U.S. By now it s probably SO million more. Most Americans who will own a gun want several. 

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