The National Rifle AssociationName:Tutor:Course:Date:The National Rifle AssociationThe National Rifle Association or NRA is a non-profit organization in America, it was established in New York, in 1871, and it helps to protect owners of guns and makes sure that they are able to implement their arms bearing right. The Second Amendment in United States Bill of Rights gives citizens the right to own and purchase guns. The National Rifle Association focuses on safety of guns, and gives courses to any citizen who is interested. Currently, there are over 4 million members of this association and statistics show that their number is steadily growing (Guns). The aim of this paper is to analyze the history and background of the National Rifle Association.
This association started in the 1870s, when former army officers General Gorge Wingate and Colonel William Conant formed it to foster marksmanship. After the association began, Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, also a former governor from Rhode Island and a senator in the U.S. became the first president of the association. Through the efforts of these founders, the New York state gave the association $25,000 to come up with a practice ground in Long Island located in a 100-acre land (Funding Universe). The Creedmoor range started there in 1873 then hosted an Irish Rifle Association to compete in a two entrant shooting competition. This event attracted approximately 8000 spectators. However, even in those days, the National Rifle Association faced anti-gun attitudes in some cities, and the year 1892, their grant for land was rescinded and their range had to move to New Jersey (Laws). The governor of New York, Alonzo Cornell, cut the funding of the association in 1880, predicting a long time of peace. However, technological events and innovations overseas made training of weapons relevant again.
The interest of NRA to promote the sport for shooting among the youths in America started in 1903, when the secretary of NRA Albert Jones asked for the institution of rifle clubs in all major military academies, colleges and universities (NRA). By 1906, the youth program at NRA was in full swing and it had over200 boys contending in matches that summer. Nowadays, these youth programs still form the cornerstone of this association, with over one million youth taking part in the shooting sport events of NRA and allied programs such as the American Legion and the Boys Scouts. Due to the amazing growth of their shooting program, they needed a new range. Gen. Crichfield had started construction of another shooting facility near Lake Erie, several miles east of Toledo. The facility got the name Camp Perry and it became the home for yearly national matches, which are the benchmark of marksmanship excellence. With around six thousand people participating
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At any given time a group of about two hundred men are in the camp. Their main aim is to impress the young women with their sporting skills—in a competition that has been dubbed “a sport that’s just starting to take off.” All the new recruits on the team are armed with a handgun in order to show off to the young women that they can carry the rifles. At Camp Perry every Saturday, a young woman stands about a foot away from the group, and in order to show a little courage she points her gun at the young men and tells them that she is the girl whose rifle is about to be fired. (They all then run to the girls’ bathroom and take a picture with it) After the match the young women come out of their hiding place in a circle of their friends to get out of the camp and face the competition. All of the young women with the rifle come and meet the shooters, they then run to the main building of camp and the camp fires off the rifle. Some of the young men don’t get out of the building, others leave, but the rifle continues to fire its rounds until all the rest is done. Most of the young men, they say, don’t even have to look at it.
You’d hope that this article would make you feel good about yourself. After all, you can still have sex on college campus and make friends in the camps while you’re shooting. Your parents would love it! Why not use those same skills on the field at NRA?
When we asked John McClane, who teaches at Hunter College, why he would choose college as a possible future option, he said: “The only real question is how long it’ll take us to actually have good men and women at that academy. But I bet you won’t be able to get them to try once they’re in the game and realize it really is that good. And that’s what I’m afraid to tell my students in all their academic efforts. If you ever go back out to the campus to buy a copy of The Boy Scouts of America and see a bunch of guys in the crowd behind a table and try to get in, it’s going to be a lot quicker to go to the camp where they’re going to buy a copy of that pamphlet at that time and get to know them better.”
The best young women can do is keep themselves safe. You’ll find that in the camps all along. If those guys at Camp Perry are willing parents, they may never have any problems with violence. The only thing you need to do is take a picture with the rifle; and if you carry it up a hill, that shooting is going to be a lot more pleasant. You won’t waste much time on that one. You will have friends all the way around you. This makes it a pretty good experience. Now I believe that it will give you a lot more confidence to have your kids in your arms. You’ll see that once they take the rifle on a field trip back to their school on college campus, you feel more confident to shoot at them on a field trip—even in front of them. You’ll probably feel like we are all going to die soon.
If you have time to think about every last little thing you’re going to do in life, just make every last little shot you possibly can.
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