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How we taught America to love the gun
– macleans.ca
Arms: The Culture and Credit of the Gun by A.J. Somerset.ARMS: THE CULTURE AND CREDO OF THE GUN
A.J. Somerset
In the late 1860s, Americans had a different kind of gun problem: They weren’t very good shots. Their best marksmen routinely lost in shooting competitions to Englishmen, Germans and Canadians. And to Gen. George Wingate and Col. William C. Church, Union Army officers during the Civil War, this was worse than an embarrassment. The rifle, they knew, was an essential tool of the modern military. The next time trouble came knocking, they’d need a pool of crack shooters to defend the nation.
For inspiration, they looked north, where the federally funded Dominion of Canada Rifle Association had created just such a community, training 45,000 young men in the science of shooting. The Americans sent emissaries to learn from our marksmen, while Canadians helped to guide construction of the first competitive shooting ranges in the U.S. In 1871, Wingate and Church formed their own association “to promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis,” and thus was born the NRA…
How we taught America to love the gun
– macleans.ca
Arms: The Culture and Credit of the Gun by A.J. Somerset.ARMS: THE CULTURE AND CREDO OF THE GUN
A.J. Somerset
In the late 1860s, Americans had a different kind of gun problem: They weren’t very good shots. Their best marksmen routinely lost in shooting competitions to Englishmen, Germans and Canadians. And to Gen. George Wingate and Col. William C. Church, Union Army officers during the Civil War, this was worse than an embarrassment. The rifle, they knew, was an essential tool of the modern military. The next time trouble came knocking, they’d need a pool of crack shooters to defend the nation.
For inspiration, they looked north, where the federally funded Dominion of Canada Rifle Association had created just such a community, training 45,000 young men in the science of shooting. The Americans sent emissaries to learn from our marksmen, while Canadians helped to guide construction of the first competitive shooting ranges in the U.S. In 1871, Wingate and Church formed their own association “to promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis,” and thus was born the NRA…
