\"National Rifle Association\" Harlon Carter Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

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\"National Rifle Association\" Harlon Carter Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale the "National Rifle Association" Harlon Carter Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

10, 1913 – November 19, 1991) was a convicted murderer and an American leader

of the National Rifle Association, Carter was an advocate

for gun rights in

the United States. Carter's 1977 election as NRA Executive Vice President

marked a turning point for the organization. During his tenure, from 1977 to

1985, he shifted the organization's focus from promoting marksmanship and

sports shooting towards strident advocacy for less restrictive gun laws. Under

Carter's leadership, the NRA became less compromising on gun rights issues. It also tripled its membership and gained

considerable political influence.

Carter killed 15-year-old Ramón Casiano in his youth and was convicted of

Casiano's murder, although this conviction was later overturned. This incident

was not generally known during most of Carter's leadership of the NRA, but rose

to greater prominence and infamy later. Carter was born in Granbury, Texas, and his family subsequently lived in Laredo, Texas. On March 3, 1931, 17-year-old Carter shot and

killed 15-year-old Ramón Casiano. Carter believed that Casiano had

information about the theft of his family's car, and, carrying a shotgun,

pointed it at Casiano, and demanded that he return to the Carter home to submit

to questioning. When Casiano refused Carter fatally shot him. No evidence tying

Casiano with the car incident was ever found. He was convicted of murder, but

the conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Appeals,

which found that the judge in the case had issued incorrect jury instructions

regarding laws related to self-defense. Carter graduated from the University of Texas and

from Emory University School of

Law. In 1936, Carter began a career with the United States Border

Patrol, where his father had also worked. Carter rose

through the ranks and commanded the entire border patrol from 1950 through 1957

where he led Operation Wetback. From

1961 to 1970, Carter directed the Southwestern region of the Immigration

and Naturalization Service. He retired from government service in

1970. Carter first joined the National Board of the NRA in 1951, and served as

the organization's president from 1965-1967. In 1975, Carter became director of

the NRA's lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative

Action. During the 1960s and 1970s, NRA leaders debated the

organization's mission. Many of the organization's leaders believed that the

NRA should focus on its traditional mission of promoting marksmanship and shooting sports. Carter, on the other hand, led a faction that

wanted to see the NRA focus on advocating against gun control legislation. The

NRA leadership was ambivalent about the Gun Control Act of 1968,

the first gun control legislation since the 1930s. Franklin Orth, the group's Executive Vice President at the

time of the act's passage, supported some parts of law, including limits on

mail-order gun purchases and bans of Saturday night specials,

inexpensive, often low-quality handguns, while opposing other provisions as

"unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-aoffering

citizens". In contrast, Carter believed that no gun control

legislation could be acceptable. He wrote to the NRA membership: "We can

win it on a simple concept – No compromise. No gun background checks for gun purchasers, saying that the acquisition of

guns by violent criminals and the mentally ill is the "price we pay for

freedom". 

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