In the context of gun violence in the United States, there are two primary opposing ideologies regarding private firearm ownership: gun control and gun rights.
Calamity Jane, notable pioneer frontierswoman and scout, aged 43
Gun politics date to Colonial America. (Lexington Minuteman, representing John Parker, by Henry Hudson Kitson stands at the town green of Lexington, Massachusetts.)
Representative John A. Bingham of Ohio, principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment
Political cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper published in Puck magazine shortly after the assassination of James A. Garfield
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The National Rifle Association of America is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent gun rights lob
Gun politics in the United States
…in the Republican Party. The Libertarian Party, whose campaign platforms favor limited government regulation, is outspokenly against gun control. The National Rifle Association (NRA) was founded to promote firearm competency and natural conservation in 1871. The NRA supported the NFA and, ultimately, the GCA. After the GCA…
Headquarters in Fair Oaks, Virginia in 2024
William Conant Church, one of the NRA's founders
Ambrose Burnside, Union Army general, Governor of Rhode Island, and first president of the NRA
Ulysses S. Grant served as President of the NRA from 1883 (six years after he left office) to 1884.