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Definition of National rifle association
1. Noun. A powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government.
Lexicographical Neighbors of National Rifle Association
Literary usage of National rifle association
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper (1892)
"30 j 7/ - national rifle association General Meeting, 25/3 il - Naval Manoeuvres
in 1891, 12 mSa - Navy Estimates, 10 ai 8 6—12 in 5 ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1867)
"All Volunteers were glad to learn that Lord Elcho will still remain on the Council
of the national rifle association, of which he was the first chairman, ..."
3. The Revised Statutes of the State of New York: As Altered by Subsequent by New York (State), Montgomery Hunt Throop (1889)
"299, § 150, this act is repealed "with the exception of such parts as i-elate
specially to the national rifle association," etc. The editor has therefore ..."
4. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"For one thing, the national rifle association creates no local ... would help to
swell the national rifle association into a far more powerful instrument of ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1905)
"The national rifle association. Annual Reports, 1860 to 1904. National Rifle
Association : Bisley. •1. The Army Rifle Association. ..."
6. The Revised Statutes of the State of New York: As Altered by Subsequent by New York (State), Montgomery Hunt Throop (1882)
"No avenue, street or public highway shall be laid ont, extended into, or opened
through, the grounds of the national rifle association at Creedmoor. ..."
7. The American Rifle: A Treatise, a Text Book, and a Book of Practical by Townsend Whelen (1918)
"During the quarter century which followed, the national rifle association continued
the work of encouraging rifle practice, ..."
8. The Book of the Rifle by Thomas Francis Fremantle (1901)
"CHAPTER III national rifle association—THK ... the formation of the National
Rifle Association, with which Lord Wemyss (at that time Lord Elcho) and Lord ..."
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