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NRA birthday

Posted by David Hardy · 17 November 2008 03:12 PM

It's its 137th, founded Nov. 17, 1871. Founded by William Church, who'd been a Union officer during The Great Unpleasantness, and was dismayed by his troops' lousy marksmanship. And more dismayed to discover the Army had no real shooting manuals. As I recall, the drill manual just showed how to stand when firing offhand, not a word about sight alignment, much less bullet drop, trigger squeeze, etc..

And Church was in at the beginning of the war. I read one late 1864 report from Gen. Hancock, commanding II Corps, that one-third of his corps had never fired a live round from their muskets. His corps had been pretty badly shot up, and replacements were new guys who'd drilled on loading but never actually had fired a shot.

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fwb | November 17, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply

Which is why the Framers THOUGHT that a properly organized, armed, and disciplined Militia a necessity. But the People have always been remiss about performing their duties as citizens and we have a massive Union with most having no skills in Arms.

Instead of Obama's corps, we need to reestablish Militia programs where EVERYONE capable of bearing Arms undergoes the necessary training regularly.

Dominus providebit!

Bullet | November 19, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply

America The Beautiful

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