The founders of the NRA were William Conant Church and George Wood Wingate, both fought for the Union in the Civil War. In August of 1871, William Church thought that an association should be established in order to promote and encourage rifle shooting. (Sugarmann) Church thought that this association should be modeled after the National Rifle Association in Great Britain.

On November 17, 1871, New York state allowed the NRA to have a charter "to promote rifle practice, and for this purpose to provide a suitable range or ranges in the vicinity of New York...and to promote the introduction of a system of aiming drill and target firing among the National Guard of New York and the militia of other states."( Sugarmann) Soon after this, the NRA needed money to build a new range and they turned to the New York assembly. The final ruling was that the government would give the NRA $25,000 to build there facility. The bill was passed due to a legisla

Currently there are many issues the NRA has to deal with. A very important issue is gun in schools and school violence. Many anti-gun people feel that the NRA is not doing their part in trying to keep guns out of schools. The anti-gun people are also blaming the NRA for promoting guns to kids. Yet, the NRA tries to promote gun safety at an early age.

The first real censure of the NRA came in 1911, when New York State passed the Sullivan Law. This law made owning a hand gun very hard. One would have to attain a police permit in order to keep the gun. This law came about after the attempted assassination of the Mayor of New York. This was one of the earliest attacks against the NRA in order to achieve gun control. Soon after this, the NRA was targeted again. Due to the invention of the automobile, there was a string of armed robberies. These robberies ended in the police being evaded. In 1934, the president of the NRA Karl Fredrick stated before Congress, “automobile owners are...as a class, a much more criminal body, from the standpoint of percentage, than pistol licensees." (Sugarmann) After this appearance in congress a rash of gun related crimes began to happen. Later in 1934, the NRA helped to endorse the Uniform Firearms Act, which proved that NRA members were responsible men. This act was shot down by congress and the National Firearms Act was established. It put regulations on guns with high rates of fi

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