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NRA historical facts
« on: October 05, 2017, 08:55:48 PM »
Doing research for my HPU veterans speech next month and found the original marksmanship manual.  William Church and George Wingate founded the NRA after the civil war to develop and promote marksmanship training due to high union soldier casualties due to poor marksmanship.  They wrote the NRA "Manual for Rifle Practice" which was given to the National Guard in 1872 and evolved to become FM 3-22.9 the army marksmanship manual and marksmanship training programs used today along with the modern civilian firearms training curriculum we have today.

https://books.google.com/books?id=12JIAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions