Learned about the role firearms have played during the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum. Were going to go through the museum and take a look at the history of americans and their firearms. Well start with the earliest precolonial days, go up through current time. Well look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america, the goal firearms have played in military and sporting and personal shooting roles. Well see the guns of champions, the guns of president s and heroes, and well see some great pieces of art, firearms engraving on a steel canvas. The National Firearms museum is at nra headquarters in fairfax, virginia. Weve been in this location for about 15. Were custodians of about 7,000 firearms. We have about 3,000 on display here and about a thousand more that the nra National Sporting arms museum in springfield, missouri. What i want people to come away from the museum with beyond the wow, thats a lot of c
Podcasts. Now, on american artifacts, a visit to the nras National Firearms museum in fairfax, virginia to see the collection of guns and learn about the role firearms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum. Im gypsumica, Museum Director, weve going to go through the museum and look at the history and their firearms. Well start with the earliest precolonial play and look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america and the role firearms played in military and the sporting and personal shooting roles. Well see the guns of champions and president s and heroes and great pieces of heart firearms engraving on a steel canvas. It is at nra headquarters in fairfax, virginia. Now the museum has existed for nearly 80 years and weve been in this location for about 15. Were custodians about 7,000 firearms donated to us or lent to us over the past 75 years. We have about 3,000 on display here. And about a
Visit to the nras National Firearms museum in fairfax, virginia to see its collection of guns and learn about the role firearms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum, im jim supica Museum Director. We are going to go through the museum, take a look at the history of americans and the firearms. We will start with the earliest precolonial days go up to current times and will look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america, the rose firearms have played in military and the sporting and personal shooting rolls. Well see the guns of champions, the guns of president s and heroes and will see some great pieces of art, firearms engraving on a steel canvas. The National Firearms museum is at nra headquarter in fairfax, virginia. Now the museum has existed itself for nearly 80 years and we have been in this location for about 15. Were custodians of about 7,000 firearms that have been donated or lent
second half of the material. we re going to be discussing mass production and the american system of manufacturers. now as you well know. there are differences in the way economists and historians discuss issues in particular. i would sort of say historians plays a great emphasis on archival information descriptive statistics and testimony that was contemporary to the time in contrast social scientists, especially economists look very much for big overarching themes or a framework that will connect it together and sometimes that means ignoring the the details of the specifics of historical events are involved. and what we re going to try to do is to try to bring both into today by looking at a debate or rather a literature on mass production and the assembly line. that as articulated by economists, but then using that framework to think about the issues by using an examples a couple of the major historical transformations in several industries in particular. we re going to ta
archival information descriptive statistics and testimony that was contemporary to the time in contrast social scientists, especially economists look very much for big overarching themes or a framework that will connect it together and sometimes that means ignoring the the details of the specifics of historical events are involved. and what we re going to try to do is to try to bring both into today by looking at a debate or rather a literature on mass production and the assembly line. that as articulated by economists, but then using that framework to think about the issues by using an examples a couple of the major historical transformations in several industries in particular. we re going to talk about both the firearms industry as well as the typewriter. now one of the things we should probably first talk about is something called the american system of manufactory that is in the 19th century writers towards the end of the 19th century started using the term to refer to m