More items you can take home from Friends of NRA banquets next year

Fairfax, Virginia - Here's another round of stuff you can look forward to seeing at Friends of NRA events next year. Items to decorate your home, liven up a party, and of course new firearms to add to your collection.

NRA Field Operations gets all its Field Reps together twice a year to make plans for the next six months, review everything that's happened since the last meeting and get training in new services and products.

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Friends of NRA lifts the curtain on its merchandise for next year's events

Fairfax, Virginia - We're back from this morning's annual preview of upcoming Friends of NRA and, wow, are there a lot of great items headed at you next year. What you see here are only a few of the items that were presented.

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A peek at items showing up for next year's Friends of NRA events

Fairfax, Virginia - The population at NRA headquarters swelled this week.

Who's here? Each and every one of NRA's Field Representatives. They have converged here at Fairfax, Virginia for the 2013 winter meetings.

NRA Field Representatives, or Field Reps, work with businesses, organizations and individuals in specific geographical locations (states and regions) to assist the growth of America's shooting sports.

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Support the NRA and shooting sports in 2012's last Friends of NRA event

This is it. We've reached the end of Friends of NRA banquets in 2012. There's just one more left and it'll be held in two weeks in Missouri. Although the banquets have finally wound down, a whole plethora await in 2013 - over 1,200 of them.

Along with an all new season of banquets comes all new merchandise. Next month the NRA Field Representatives will converge at headquarters for their winter meetings and the 2013 Merchandise Package will be revealed. What new items will be available next year? We'll find out in just a couple weeks.

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Fairfax, Virginia - In Friends of NRA's fifth episode last season, Matt got invited out to an NRA Day in South Dakota to celebrate youth shooting sports. Joining up with Clayton Pederson, Field Rep to both Dakotas, Matt treked out to see what the SportsFest was all about.

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Hill County Friends of NRA volunteer Hunter Behrends joins shooting team

Fairfax, Virginia - Friends of NRA volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come from all walks of life, from teenagers to seniors, from all across the country. And they're involvement in the shooting sports goes beyond supporting their local banquets and committees.

Take Hunter Behrends for example. Hunter is an eleventh grader from Fredericksburg, Texas. This volunteer for the Hill County Friends of NRA committee was recently selected to join the Texas 4-H Shooting Sports Air Rifle Team.

The Texas 4-H Shooting Sports Air Rifle team is part of a comprehensive introduction to shooting sports safety and the fundamentals. Disciplines include the standard offerings of archery, pistol, rifle, shotgun, muzzleloading, and hunting.

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Generous NRA donation will help Michigan youth keep breaking clays

Two weeks ago Friends of NRA made a very generous donation to the Upper Peninsula Youth Shotgun Sports Organization (UPYSSO) to promote and further the clay target shooting sports in Delta County.

The check, totaling almost $4,400, was presented by NRA Field Rep Al Herman during the Eastern Upper Peninsula Friends of NRA's annual banquet in Brimly, Michigan. This money will go a long way to helping the Delta County Crushers, a Scholastic Clay Target Progam (SCTP) shooting team, and is a great example of funds raised at Friends of NRA events going back into the local community.

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Raising $170,000 in 2011, Alaska State Friends of NRA sits on top

This week the NRA Board of Directors are meeting in Washington D.C. to discuss future initiatives and important minutiae. With everyone in one place, it's also an opportunity to recognize people, and groups of people, who have been invaluable to the NRA's support of the Second Amendment.

People like the Alaska State Friends of NRA committee. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, these friends of the NRA are being officially named 2011's Most Outstanding Friends of NRA Committee for raising the most funds at a single Friends of NRA event last year. Now, since committees are made up of a number of people and Alaska is a decent distance from Washington, their chairman, Denny Hamann, will be the one accepting the award.

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Auction for this one-of-a-kind NRA Edition Browning Citori Gran Lightning XS ends tomorrow

Today is your last chance to put a bid in for the GunBroker.com auction of a rare NRA Edition shotgun. The exquisite craftsmanship and decor on this gun are all thanks to the partnership between Browning Arms Co., Baron Technology and The NRA Foundation.

Is this really that rare a gun? It is. To start, this NRA Edition Browning Citori Gran Lightning XS, serial number 05211MT131, comes with 12GA, 20GA, 28GA and 410GA jeweled 28" barrels.

Built on a 12GA frame, the shotgun includes an exquisitely engraved Watts nickel-plated receiver featuring 24K gold plating for an antiquated appearance. A duck cameo is depicted on the left side while the right sports a dog/hunter/quail cameo. The receiver's belly features the NRA logo and “One of One." Scrollwork with selective gold-plating and antiquing enhance the forend iron.

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