Of course, being NPR you may reject it.
Founded in NY
"Started by Union officers upset over Civil War recruits' poor shooting skills
That inception dates back almost to the Civil War and two former Union officers, who had despaired over their wartime recruits' poor shooting skills. (An official study estimated that Yankee troops fired 1,000 rounds for every bullet that actually struck a Confederate soldier.)
The idea was to educate a new generation of marksmen, whether for war or hunting or recreational target shooting."
And another...
http://time.com/4106381/nra-1871-history/
"As TIME’s Richard Lacayo explained in a 1990 feature about the group, “The N.R.A. was founded in 1871 by a group of former Union Army officers dismayed that so many Northern soldiers, often poorly trained, had been scarcely capable of using their weapons.”
and it figures that it would start in Obama/Manuel territory....
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/08/illinois-house-passes-bill-requiring-18-20-year-olds-hand-assault-weapons/
It doesn't seem to matter in the least that it was the Obama/Holder rules that put schools in the position of 'don't report problem kids to law enforcement' because they wanted good records of stopping the 'school to prison' pipeline. And it doesn't seem to matter that, especially, women who live alone and are under 21 won't have their own protection available anymore.

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