Patrick charles is a former marine and now Senior Historian for the u. S. Air force and the author of the book armed in america a history of gun rights from colonial militias to conceal carries. Thank you 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 organization come about and why . Well, it came about after the civil war where theres poor marksmanship by the Union Solders during the war so two officers formed the nra with two purpose. One is to facilitate, build, and grow long range rifle ranges and the other was to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of working to get appropriations from the 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 english National Rifle association, and they were that was the predecessor in 1859. This was supposed to b
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Governor announced the ship is being held off the coast until the testing is for sale of a second joins us live from San Francisco tonight with the latest on this taylor. Im not too long ago that victim was here at pier 27 in San Francisco, obviously raising some concerns here about possible exposures people in the city and still passengers that are still on that ship now experiencing symptoms. Well thats why governor Gavin Newsome said that hes declaring the state of emergency hes calling in more resources now to keep any possible exposures and cases on that ship at bay. California is now in a state of emergency after its first coronavirus death tied to more possible cases on a princess cruise ship the elderly victim died on wednesday while in isolation at roseville hospital a couple of weeks prior he became sick on the grand princess cruise ship as it docked at pier 27 in San Francisco from mexico that individual. Came back with a number of others into not only Placer County area but
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Eagle, 46 miles from truckee, pretty cold there. I saw 42 degrees. Probably close, with a lot of 30s and 40s. Temperatures are mainly in the 40s, a lot of high clouds streaming in in advance of this system. A front will be here tonight and we have a west southwest wind with a lot of high and mid level clouds. Mostly cloudy today, cloudy tonight, and rainfall looks light, just a couple hundredths to a tenth of an inch. Temperatures are on their way down after yesterdays 70s and 80s, upper 60s and low 70s today. A lot of thick fog in santa rosa and napa, a lot of 40s out there. Cloud cover will continue to roll in throughout the day and temps will struggle to get into the low 70s for many. Maybe tonight that system can hold together with some light rain. 60s and 70s for the highs. Couple things we can get to with sal. The east bay, steve. I want to mention i80 is open, just in case you went to bed and didnt know if it would be open. Its a normal commute there. Highway 4 is slow from anti