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The city you see cases and more deaths than the rest. Welcome to the program millions of people in the United States are commemorating the end of slavery on estate 865. 00 the news that president lincoln had declared all slaves free 2 and a half years earlier finally reached texas june 19th also known as june 18th is not only a day of celebration but also a moment of reflection on enduring Racial Injustice in the u. S. This year it comes amid a period of a National Soul searching following the death of george floyd under the name of a white Police Officer President Trump was forced to postpone a Campaign Rally planned for juvenile after widespread outcry. Thank you act life matter protesters gathered across the u. S. On friday to commemorate the end of slavery the president s choice of this day for a Campaign Rally sparked a huge backlash so too did the location tulsa oklahoma is the site of the worst incident of racist violence in u. S. History in 1021 its greenwich district was a bus
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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
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