Former Union officers, who had led the costly battlefield effort to free 4 million Americans from bondage, chartered the National Rifle Association (NRA) in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 17, 1871. Civil War veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate created the organization after …
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