Meeting. The author of the book, armed in america, hadraa history of g rights. Thanks for being with us on cspan 3s American History tv. Thank you, steve, for being here. How did the organization come about and why . Well, they came about after the civil war where theres poor marketing by officers during it the war so two officers decided to form the nra for two purposes. One is facilitate, build and grow long rifle ranges and assist markmanship. The florida initial sale so you know was kind of working to get appropriations from government, and they started off with one organization. They grew to 1,700 by 1929. They also are just so you know built on there was an enlish National Rifle association, and they were this supposed to be the american version. The only thing that really differentiated the two to start off with you could start or build a rifle club locally or statewide and you were an nra affiliated club no less. And those clubs would then compete in state, local and national m
Patrick charles is a former marine and now Senior Historian of the u. S. Air force, and now armed in of gun rights to concealed carry, thanks for being with us. Thank you, steve. Glad to be here. Let me begin with the origins of the nra, the National Rifle association. How did the Association Come about and why. Well it came about after the civil war where there was poor marksmanship so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. One is to facilitate and build and grow long range rifle ranges and to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of a working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization, they grew to 1700 by 1929. They are also are, just so you know, built on an english National Rifle association and they were predecessor in 1859 so this is the american version. The only thing that differentiated the two to start off with was this franchise like mod
Congress reacted to snowden and theyre saying hmm, maybe it is not quite so scary as we thought to go against the government. I want to move on because of the time. But, mieke, i thought you might have the best view into how might this ruling influence the politics of this, the congressional will . I think that the court the Second Circuit clearly put this back in congress lap and said, look, congress did not explicitly authorize this Bulk Collection Program under 2150 and if they want to be explicit about that, they need to act they made note of the timeline. But their analysis of the 215 program suggests that they would not look kindly upon it the way that it is currently constructed. I also think that the politics of this right now here in the house, it is unlikely that you would get a clean reauthorization of the existing program through. And so the real question for senator mcconnell is, do you take the reform legislation or do you let the program expire . So to move on to so i wa
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we will then hear from elena kagan herself. i m joined by marcia coyle of the national law journal and marcia, the senators are just coming into the room and ms. kagan has come into the room. this is not a day of questions but we re going to get a sense of what the senators want to know from her. that s right, judy, this is opening day. she gets to ss= and listen to 19 senators lay out some of their concerns about her nomination, a lot of the issues they re interested in and then at the end we get to hear a little from her. the chairman, senator patrick lehe, has gotten under way. we ll turn to him. senator sessions and i have discussed this. we re going to recognize senators in order of seniority doing the usual back and forth. senator sessions and i will each give an opening statement and following our opening statement take turns back and forth. i would urge senators to stay i m afraid we re going to have to stay within the 10 minutes simply to keep on schedule, an