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The National Guard didn't exist in the 1870s when retired Yankee officers established the NRA. They were trying to figure out why the rebs were typically such better marksmen and they decided it was the way southerners were raised, where firearms were a part of the culture. Making firearms part of the Northern culture was the key goal.
If you compare the average city boy to the average country boy the difference in proficiency and knowledge of firearms is quite obvious.
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