Posted May 28, 2015 6:14 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

National Rifle Association

By Allan D. Cors, NRA President

Signing of the Gun Control Act on 22 October in 1968 with President Lyndon B. Johnson
Allan D. Cors
Allan D. Cors

FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- As NRA’s new president, I am grateful to serve with you to preserve America’s unique freedoms.

I first encountered the National Rifle Association as an 11-year-old growing up in Ohio. Mentored by the NRA in the 1950s by men who had a passion for owning firearms and shooting, I learned the true meaning of our Second Amendment.

Recently, an old friend and I were remembering those remarkably free times: when “gun control” was not even in the lexicon; when a kid could take a shotgun or rifle to school and stow it in the cloakroom for after-school target practice or hunting.

My friend asked rhetorically, “What would life be like without the NRA?”

I know the answer to that question because I lived it.

I was blessed to have been present—working as a staff attorney in Congress—at the beginning of all of the legislative battles that have been thrust upon us.

In that fight—which brought us the 1968 Gun Control Act—there was no NRA as we know it today. We had …read more

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