“school shield”

Here are some quotes from the various speeches given at the 2022 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Houston, Texas.

Nationwide shutdowns from the pandemic in 2020 have challenged the Friends of NRA, a 100-percent grassroots fundraising effort benefitting the shooting sports, but organizers have found ways to keep the momentum going.

For some, the headlines about freedom and our future may sound like someone else’s business. It’s exactly what the NRA Foundation has been supporting for the last 30 years.

I recently received an invitation from my local public school district to attend a “safety forum.” It wasn’t going to cover the variety of health-and-safety issues relevant to kids today—opioid abuse, underage drinking, reckless driving, online bullying, physical violence and sexual assault or harassment.

As your NRA president, I encourage you to join us next month from April 16 to 19 at the 149th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Nashville, Tenn.

Our NRA programs designed to protect our children of all ages.

NRA is fully engaged every day protecting and fighting for our freedom. As we fight those battles, thanks to your support, it is easy to lose sight of all the NRA is also doing for gun safety (actual gun safety, not how anti-gunners use the term).

More educators are becoming certified to carry on campus as another way to protect students.

No joke: CNN, the least trusted network in America, won the Walter Cronkite Award For Excellence In Journalism for staging an anti-gun rally in the wake of the Parkland tragedy. Here’s the true story of what transpired that night.