The Effect of The NRA in Urban Life
The NRA or National Rifle Association was founded by two northern Civil War soldiers because they thought that the Civil War was so long because most urban northerners could not fire a weapon very well. The first president was Ambrose Burnside, who was an old northern army general. In the early stages of the NRA it mainly focused on firearm safety, accuracy, and recreational shooting.
From the start to today the NRA has been trying to educate and familiarize the urban citizens of the United States with guns. Early leaders of the NRA noticed that U.S. citizens needed to be more familiar with guns. To help citizens the U.S. government agreed with the NRA about their thoughts of getting urban people more familiar with guns. So, the NRA and the government were both very influential in the decision making of laws and such about guns. Both of them knew that to have a stronger military then it would be better to have every soldier know how to shoot a gun before they came into the military.
The U.S. government wanted to play a role not by just their influ
ence through the NRA. So the government had almost organized fifty different rifle clubs that were not part of the NRA by 1907. In each of these rifle clubs in 1907 the average amount was about three thousand members per club. Around 1904 the government had nearly three hundred thousand boys being instructed in rifle shooting throughout the U.S. The government was taking a huge step in the process of getting more citizens familiar with guns.
The NRA mainly focused on targeting the youth of the United State because they could make a better future. In 1903 the NRA targeted youth by going through colleges, rifle clubs, and military camps to start competitive shooting. This way the youth would want to start using guns while teaching them the safety of them as well. By 1906 there were more than two hundred competitors competing with in the NRA. This would be a great start to getting the youth of the United States stronger with guns.
The main way that the NRA targeted the younger people was by getting competitive shooting started in the schools around the U.S. In 1909, the NRA held the first national youth shooting competition. It was called the Interscholastic Rifle Match, it was for any school that took their top ten shooters to the competition. Each shooter got ten shots from fifty yards in three different positions. With this contest it gave the idea for kids to have another way to have a competition to get them to start using guns more.
For the NRA to improve the knowledge of guns in the U.S. it took a long process to get to the way that Americans know about guns.
Sources
The NRA or National Rifle Association was founded by two northern Civil War soldiers because they thought that the Civil War was so long because most urban northerners could not fire a weapon very well. The first president was Ambrose Burnside, who was an old northern army general. In the early stages of the NRA it mainly focused on firearm safety, accuracy, and recreational shooting.
From the start to today the NRA has been trying to educate and familiarize the urban citizens of the United States with guns. Early leaders of the NRA noticed that U.S. citizens needed to be more familiar with guns. To help citizens the U.S. government agreed with the NRA about their thoughts of getting urban people more familiar with guns. So, the NRA and the government were both very influential in the decision making of laws and such about guns. Both of them knew that to have a stronger military then it would be better to have every soldier know how to shoot a gun before they came into the military.
The U.S. government wanted to play a role not by just their influ
ence through the NRA. So the government had almost organized fifty different rifle clubs that were not part of the NRA by 1907. In each of these rifle clubs in 1907 the average amount was about three thousand members per club. Around 1904 the government had nearly three hundred thousand boys being instructed in rifle shooting throughout the U.S. The government was taking a huge step in the process of getting more citizens familiar with guns.
The NRA mainly focused on targeting the youth of the United State because they could make a better future. In 1903 the NRA targeted youth by going through colleges, rifle clubs, and military camps to start competitive shooting. This way the youth would want to start using guns while teaching them the safety of them as well. By 1906 there were more than two hundred competitors competing with in the NRA. This would be a great start to getting the youth of the United States stronger with guns.
The main way that the NRA targeted the younger people was by getting competitive shooting started in the schools around the U.S. In 1909, the NRA held the first national youth shooting competition. It was called the Interscholastic Rifle Match, it was for any school that took their top ten shooters to the competition. Each shooter got ten shots from fifty yards in three different positions. With this contest it gave the idea for kids to have another way to have a competition to get them to start using guns more.
For the NRA to improve the knowledge of guns in the U.S. it took a long process to get to the way that Americans know about guns.
 |
| 1st president of the NRA, Ambrose Burnside |
 |
| NRA logo |
Sources
This site helped me understand how the NRA became the way
that it was from the start to how it was when it is today.
.
http://www.nrahq.org
This site
gave me the information and the back round knowledge to fully get what the NRA
stood for at the time.
This site provided me with a timeline of important events
In the NRA or that the NRA was associated with, giving me the topics that led
me to my points throughout my essay.
This newspaper article gave me the information about the
governments role in the creation and choices of the NRA, to help make the
changes that were needed within the U.S.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
This newspaper article provided me with the start of the
NRAs first real outreach towards children and firearms throughout the U.S.
