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.

Exact synonyms: Nra
Generic synonyms: Lobby, Pressure Group, Third House

Lexicographical Neighbors of National Rifle Association

National Guard
National Guard Bureau
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
National Institute of Justice
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Institutes of Health
National Intelligence Community
National Labor Relations Board
National League
National Liberation Army
National Liberation Front of Corsica
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
National Reconnaissance Office
National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
National Security Council
National Socialism
National Socialist
National Socialist German Workers' Party
National Socialists
National Technical Information Service
National Trust
National Weather Service
Nationalist China
Nationaol Science Foundation
Native Alaskan

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"299, § 150, this act is repealed "with the exception of such parts as i-elate specially to the National Rifle Association," etc.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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