What is the National Rifle Association of America
(NRA)?
A: is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States.
Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the
modern NRA has become a prominent what?
A: Gun rights lobbying organization while continuing to teach firearm safety
and competency.
The organization also publishes what?
A: Several magazines and sponsors competitive marksmanship events.
According to the NRA, it had how many members as of
December 2018?
A: Nearly 5 million, though that figure has not been independently
confirmed.
The NRA is among the most influential advocacy groups
in what?
A: U.S. politics.
The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) is
its lobbying division, which manages what?
A: Its political action committee (PAC), the Political Victory Fund (PVF).
From the mid-to-late 1970s,[c] the NRA has become
increasingly criticized by whom?
A: Gun control and gun rights advocacy groups, political commentators, and
politicians.
A few months after the Civil War began in 1861, a
national rifle association was proposed by whom?
A: Americans in England.
In a letter that was sent to President Abraham Lincoln
and published in The New York Times, R.G. Moulton and R.B. Perry recommended
forming an organization similar to what?
A: The British National Rifle Association.
When was the National Rifle Association chartered in
the State of New York?
A: On November 17, 1871.
Who founded it?
A: Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church and Captain George
Wood Wingate.
On November 25, 1871, the group voted to do what?
A: To elect its first corporate officers.
Who was elected president?
A: Union Army Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, who had worked as a Rhode
Island gunsmith.
Who succeeded him when Burnside resigned on August 1,
1872?
A: Church succeeded him as president.
Union Army records for the Civil War indicate that its
troops fired how many rifle shots for each Confederate hit?
A: About 1,000.
The generals attributed this to what?
A: To the use of volley tactics, devised for earlier, less accurate
smoothbore muskets.
The New York Legislature funded the construction of a
modern range at Creedmoor, Long Island, for what?
A: Long-range shooting competitions. The range officially opened on June 21,
1873.
After beating England and Scotland to win the Elcho
Shield in 1873 at Wimbledon, then a village outside
London, the Irish Rifle
Team issued a challenge through the New York Herald to who?
A: To the riflemen of the United States to raise a team for a long-range
match to determine an Anglo-American championship.
The NRA organized a team through what?
A: A subsidiary amateur rifle club.
What did Remington Arms and Sharps Rifle Manufacturing
Company produce for the team?
A: Breech-loading weapons.
Although muzzle-loading rifles had long been considered
more accurate, eight American riflemen won the match firing what?
A: Breech-loading rifles.
Publicity of the event generated by the New York Herald
helped to establish breech-loading firearms as suitable for what?
A: Military marksmanship training and promoted the NRA to national
prominence.