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
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30 great New Year jokes and quotes
With no parties to go to or extended family to see, New Year will be quieter this year. At least we can still have a chuckle
Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones s Diary
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawer, in a letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in January 1863
“New Year s Day: now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual . . . New Year s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions.”
very wealthy nations want us to fight their battles for them. i want to deal with iran, but this notion that everybody in the world cuts their military spending, has no military budget at all and hide behind us is crazy. if you ask the american people what s unpopular in the budget, foreign aid always comes up high. the fact is is that foreign aid of the kind that helps poor children or fights aids in afriafter rick ka, that s not much money. the most expensive is the aid we give england, denmark and italy and japan by allowing them to have a military budget that s small because they hide behind us. the time has come let me put it this way. the most popular book in europe and wealthy parts of asia is tom sawer. it s time to stop painting the fence. do you think congressman paul has given progressives nuch political cover that the president might include cuts or work this into his commission on spending? i m not sure the president