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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. American nonprofit organization For other uses, see National Rifle Association (disambiguation). National Rifle Association of America Headquarters in Fair Oaks, Virginia Founded November 17, 1871 ; 153 years ago (1871-11-17) Founder William Conant Church George Wood Wingate Founded at New ...
Longtime National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre should pay the powerful gun rights group $4.3 million in damages for mismanagement and misspending charitable funds on lavish personal ...
In 2006, the National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbied U.S. Representative F. James Sensenbrenner to add a provision to the Patriot Act reauthorization that requires Senate confirmation of ATF director nominees. (Prior to that, ATF directors were simply appointed by the administration. [41])
In February 2018, a boycott emerged against the U.S. gun rights advocacy group National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and its business affiliates. The boycott and social media activism campaign arose in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA was criticized for its response, including its ...
Roughly 20% of US presidents have, at some point, been members of the National Rifle Association. Since the NRA's founding in 1871, nine of the following 28 presidents were NRA members.
The Eddie Eagle GunSafe program and its namesake character were developed in 1988 by the National Rifle Association of America for children who are generally considered too young to be allowed to handle firearms. The Eddie Eagle program is intended for children of any age from pre-school through fourth grade.
The Origins and Worldview of the National Rifle Association (NRA), [5] tracing the emergence of the NRA and its ascriptive republican stance; and Ascriptive Republicanism in Contemporary White Public Opinion, examining the ideology's influence on current gun attitudes and its correlation with anti-democratic beliefs.
The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included ...