![]() For anyone who has looked at access to guns in our society and asked "Why?", this is an unmatched account of how we got here, and who got us here. ![]() Here is that story, from the NRA's surprising roots in post-Civil War New York City to the defining event that changed its culture forever - the so called "Cincinnati Revolt" of 1977 - to the present day, where President Donald Trump is the most ardent champion in the White House the NRA has ever had. ![]() At the same time, the organization has also buried its own remarkable history. But, as Frank Smyth shows, the NRA has evolved from an organization concerned above all with marksmanship - and which supported most government efforts around gun control for a hundred years - to one that resists all attempts to restrict guns in any way. gun policy differs so extremely - some would say so tragically - from that of every other developed nation. It is largely due to the NRA that the U.S. But in 1977 the NRA got taken over by Second Amendment absolutists and underwent a metamorphosis into the gun lobby. In fact, for the first 106 years of its existence, the NRA was a gun club devoted to sports shooting and safety training. ![]() Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. Only in recent decades did the NRA first become such anideological organization. The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins. ![]()
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