Word: nra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast majority of the crowd expressed opposition to the legislation aiming to stifle gun sales. Many lifetime members of the National Rifle Association (NRA)--the leading national organization opposing gun control--spoke before the legislative panel, which will formulate a recommendation later this week. The hearings were publicized in the NRA monthly newsletter...
Although yesterday's hearing marked the first time a member of HCHC had testified publicly, for most the hearing was not a new experience. The NRA has for nearly a decade annually opposed and successfully squelched gun control legislation with large turnouts at hearings...
...NRA Hall of Fame...
...sheaf of lightning bolts, to be displayed by all employers who complied with the new codes. Then he called for a public boycott of anyone who refused. He asked for union volunteers to act as monitors. And Boy Scouts too. He even used Army Air Corps bombers to ship NRA banners and placards around the country. Said Johnson: "When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits to come into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who attempt to trifle...
...worked. Drafts of NRA codes began pouring in; there were 144 in July. In September, New York celebrated the NRA with the biggest parade in the city's history; some 250,000 marchers poured down Fifth Avenue to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. There were