The NRA was founded in NYC by Union Army veteran officers of the Civil War. One was Gen. Ambrose Burnside:
When Ambrose Burnside founded the National Rifle Association in order to promote rifle practice, he probably never foresaw that his little organization would eventually encompass all the shooting sports, and would grow into the most powerful lobby in the world.
Sen. Burnside died in September 1881, in Providence, a few months after the beginning of his second term in the Senate.
As a Civil War general, Ambrose Burnside surely did not rank with his greatest contemporaries, but as a defender of the rights of black people, he had very few peers in the military. His kindness, humility and good judgment repeatedly earned the endorsement of the people of Rhode Island. In founding the National Rifle Association in 1871, Ambrose Burnside began to accomplish the project he had begun at Petersburg in 1864: to prove to the world that free, armed black Americans possess the character, courage and skill not only to be entitled to full legal civil rights, but to be fully accepted in every social sphere.
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Ulysses Grant was one of the early Presidents of the NRA.
Bennett, a compact, 57-year-old African-American political activist from Newton, is on a mission: He wants more minorities to become gun enthusiasts.
Bennett is a member of the Tenth Cavalry Rifle and Pistol Club, a national group that encourages blacks and other minorities to take up sport shooting. Bennett and his supporters want to erase the negative stereotypes that suggest that African-Americans carry guns only to cause trouble.
With help from the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC), and the National Rifle Association, Bennett organized the first-ever Minorities Day at the Cherry Ridge Range in Highland Lakes on Saturday. The NRA Foundation, a fundraising arm of the NRA, provided part of the funding.
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