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The National Rifle Association of America contends that Dr Kellermann “ severely understates defensive uses of guns ,” and that his “ conclusions provide anti-gunners propaganda .” Kellermann ’ s findings have been linked to the June 1996 Republican-led decision of the U. S. House Appropriations Committee to strip US $ 2. 6 million from the budget of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the U. S. Centers for Disease Control – the exact amount previously set aside for NCIPC / CDC research into the causes and effects of firearm-related death and injury.
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The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.
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These rules are part of the Eddie Eagle program developed by the National Rifle Association for preschoolers through 6th graders.
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* Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association of America
Material focused on gun rights in opposition to the gun ban was translated from information from the National Rifle Association, much of which focused on US Constitutional discussions focused around the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Controversy later surrounded Body Count over its song " Cop Killer ", a song intended as a narrative from the view of a criminal getting revenge on racist police officers guilty of brutality, from the National Rifle Association and various police advocacy groups.
* 1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
* 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
In May 1999, the New York Post reported that Lee made an inflammatory comment about Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association.
The National Rifle Association ( NRA ) of the United Kingdom was founded in 1860 to raise the funds for an annual national rifle meeting " for the encouragement of Volunteer Rifle Corps, and the promotion of Rifle-shooting throughout Great Britain ".
For similar reasons, concerned over poor marksmanship during the American Civil War, veteran Union officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association of America in 1871 for the purpose of promoting and encouraging rifle shooting on a " scientific " basis.
In 1903, the U. S. Congress created the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice ( NBPRP ), an advisory board to the Secretary of the Army, with a nearly identical charter to the NRA.
Roosevelt became a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, while President, in 1907 after paying a $ 25 fee.
McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.
* November 17 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
As a representative of the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) explained, " he NRA has always maintained that fair chase, being in the field with your firearm or bow, is an important element of hunting tradition.
This provision of McCain-Feingold, sponsored by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Vermont Independent James Jeffords, as introduced applied only to for-profit corporations, but was extended to incorporate non-profit issue organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund or the National Rifle Association, as part of the " Wellstone Amendment ," sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone.
The law was challenged as unconstitutional by groups and individuals including the California State Democratic Party, the National Rifle Association, and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell ( Kentucky ), the Senate Majority Whip.
Forest Service team using a 106mm Recoilless Rifle for avalanche control at Mammoth Mountain in the Inyo National Forest.
It has subsequently ended its ban as a result of the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, upon a federal lawsuit by the National Rifle Association being filed the day after Heller was entered.
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Starting with small stations not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations.
The National Association of Broadcasters code specifically bars hard-liquor commercials.
The Council on National Defense of the American Medical Association contributed a brief article to each issue entitled, `` This Is Your A.M.A. ''.
Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., is developing plans to utilize specially treated lumber for underground shelter construction.
In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.
An examination of some forty catalogs of schools offering courses in interior design, for the most part schools accredited by membership in the National Association of Schools of Art, and a further `` on the spot '' inspection of a number of schools, show their courses adhere pretty closely to the recommendations.
There will be no mitigation of these offences until all art schools, whether independent or attached to universities have separate accreditation -- as do medical schools -- by an art accreditation group such as the `` National Association of Schools of Art ''.
The Middle-South Region, as defined by the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials ( NAIRO ), consists of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Finally there are the parent organizations and the laymen's organizations such as the National Association of Parents and Teachers, and the Citizens Committee on Public Schools.
That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.
Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.
It is not surprising that, as spokesman for real estate interests, the National Association of Real Estate Boards ( NAREB ) and its local associations have sought to limit and often ignore much of this pressure.
The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.
In addition to opposing the ADA on grounds of cost, church groups like the National Association of Evangelicals testified against the ADA's Title I ( employment ) provisions on grounds of religious liberty.
* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player
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The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.
The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.
The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.
Amazing Grace in America: Our Spiritual National Anthem, Angel City Press.
Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.
Until the wolves returned, Yellowstone National Park had one of the densest and most stable coyote populations in America due to a lack of human impacts.
Each league's award is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with one representative from each team, which means 14 ballots are cast for the American League winner, and 16 ballots are cast for the National League.
In the U. S. Sea Scouting program ( which is part of the Boy Scouts of America ), all National, Regional, Area, and Council committee chairs are titled as commodore, while senior committee members are addressed as vice commodore.
Captain America is purportedly laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, but Tony Stark ( Iron Man ) and others have actually returned Rogers ' body to the Arctic where Rogers had been found years before.
In 1968, Hall was 23 years old and carefully monitored the political situation in America, like the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.
In 2001 " American Pie " was voted No. 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Other educational organizations that focus on one or more endocrine-related conditions include the American Diabetes Association, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Human Growth Foundation, American Menopause Foundation, Inc., and Thyroid Foundation of America.
After decades of growing interest in and development of experiential education and scouting ( not Scouting ) in the United States, and the emergence of the Scout Movement in 1907, in 1910 Boy Scouts of America was founded in the merger of three older Scouting organizations: Boy Scouts of the United States, the National Scouts of America and the Peace Scouts of California.
In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.
It can be said that there is no right or wrong way to dance it ; however, certain styles of the dance are considered correct " form " within the technical elements documented and governed by the National Dance Council of America.
The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).
The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.
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