The NRA : The Unauthorized History

The National Rifle Association, founded in 1871, did not embrace gun rights as its "unyielding "aim until 1977- Since then, to advance its new gun rights goals, the NRA has rewritten the history of its own genesis and development, while burying many ... Read more

The National Rifle Association, founded in 1871, did not embrace gun rights as its "unyielding "aim until 1977- Since then, to advance its new gun rights goals, the NRA has rewritten the history of its own genesis and development, while burying many actual records of its own organization, along with the patriotic achievements of its own leadership. More recently, to advance the same goals, the NRA has attempted to rewrite key periods of American and world history, crafting and circulating fresh narratives about both Reconstruction and the Holocaust that entire canons of historical scholarship had previously somehow missed. At the same time, to keep its own past in the dark, the NRA has preserved its own historical Measures for decades in a "climate controlled room with restricted access" logged to the "central computer" of its National Firearms Museum at its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, that no one-neither NRA members nor the public-has ever seen. This is the untold story of the National Rifle Association of America, as documented by its own official journals and records, and told for the first time by a writer unbeholden to the organization. Book jacket. Less