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Article: National Rifle Association of America
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National Rifle Association of America
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
U.S.A.
Telephone: (703) 267-1000
Toll Free: (800) NRA-3888
Fax: (703) 267-3938
Web site:
http://www.nrahq.org
Nonprofit Organization
Incorporated:
1871 as the National Rifle Association
Employees:
450
Sales:
$131.3 million (1998)
NAIC:
81394 Political Organizations
The National Rifle Association is a nonprofit organization promoting gun safety and lobbying for its interpretation of the second amendment, the right to bear arms. (The amendment in full, subject to various modern interpretations, reads:
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A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep ...