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Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto has a lot to say about the intersection of our Second Amendment rights and wildlife conservation.

This year, the NRA National Firearms Museum is marking 87 years in operation, preserving and chronicling nearly seven centuries’ worth of firearms history during that time with the opening of a new gallery.

The politics of guns and hunting obscures many deeper truth about America, such as a longstanding connection between private American arms makers and freedom that has greatly benefited our armed forces.

Since 1776, women have fought for and defended our freedom. This too-often-unheralded part of American history, as well as all that women do today, is told here by the NRA's first female president.

One of NRA’s most public and best-known figures in the gun world—and its leading voice when it comes to firearms, history and our Second Amendment heritage—E. Philip Schreier III has been appointed director of NRA Museums.

The NRA's three museums are critical to preserving our rich heritage for the future, but you might be surprised by where this incredible resource began.

“Wow, if that gun could only talk, I wonder what stories it would tell.”

The National Rifle Association on Jan. 13 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that creates a framework for cooperation between the two organizations for recruiting, retaining and reactivating American sportswomen and men, and for promoting the conservation of wildlife and its habitat through the NRA’s hunter education and hunter outreach programs.

There is a special Springfield Model 1903 in the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va., with a historical backstory everyone should know.