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« Fed. district court rules for FFL | Main | Monks with guns? »

More on "the other NRA"

Posted by David Hardy · 18 September 2008 08:44 PM

Here's a pic, from a reader, of a National Recovery Administration meal sign that once hung in a store:
otherNRA.jpg From another reader comes a discussion of the mail chaos when the National Rifle Association and the National Recovery Administration were officed in the same building:

"Sacks of targets, used in NRA tournaments, were delivered to puzzled clerks in the offices of the National Recovery Administration, while the National Rifle Association staff sorted through pleas for financial aid to locate its own correspondence. The problem was not fully solved until May 12, 1935, when the Supreme Court voided the National Industrial Recovery Act."

James B. Trefethen, Americans and Their Guns 229 (1967).

· NRA

5 Comments | Leave a comment

Justin Buist | September 18, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply

There's another NRA too. I was wearing an NRA hat at a local brewery when I got chatting with the head brewer. He saw the hat and commented that he'd seen anti-gun protesters at an NRA meeting he went to.

It was at a National Restaurants Association gathering in Chicago.

Brian | September 19, 2008 8:05 AM | Reply

"The problem was not fully solved until May 12, 1935, when the Supreme Court voided the National Industrial Recovery Act."

Ah, the good old days, when SCOTUS actually followed the Constitution, and the Commerce Clause actually limited the federal government.

bud | September 19, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply

"Those that don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

Those that don't know history also rant about a US fascist state. FDR (who is probably one of their heros) damned near created one.

There isn't a big difference between the NRA eagle, and the ones on the top of the standards that held the big swastika banners at Nazi rallies, and that was deliberate.

Kristopher | September 19, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply

The National Recovery Act was all about emulating Mussolini, a person who was the darling of all the little soci*lists in the first lady's little circle.


geekwitha.45 | September 22, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply

The blue eagle was the symbol of compliance with the "voluntary" fascist scheme.

Those who displayed the blue eagle were exempted from various orders of harassment, and to "earn" the blue eagle, you had to demonstrate compliance with various directives.

That and the Wilson administration was the creepiest America ever got.

And those of us who *DO* study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.

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