Rare Abraham Lincoln tie to the NRA shows up at auction

[Gunreference1]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...-up-at-auction

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Interesting artifact, but I fail to see how the W/Examiner connects Lincoln in any way to the NRA thru this individual. Wasn't Lincoln quite dead by the time the NRA was founded?

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Alexander Historical Auctions, the Maryland-based auction house that focuses on U.S. and international historic artifacts, is offering Lincoln’s hand-signed appointment of a Civil War captain who later became the co-founder of the NRA and its second president.

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Yes, but the W/Examiner calls it a "rare link between Abraham Lincoln and the National Rifle Association. A "link" connects two things together; there is nothing linking Lincoln to the NRA at all. Just more journalistic click bait.....

The document in question is the link between Lincoln and the newly commissioned Captain, and nothing else.