Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds. 

Remember, these items are unique to the Museum store. To purchase, visit the Museum or call Store Manager Benjamin Van Scoyoc at 703-267-1608.

An English class from a local community college recently paid a visit to the NRA National Firearms Museum as part of a research assignment.

Students in the entry-level English course were assigned a seven-page paper on the topic of firearm rights and ownership.

Trenton Castleberry, a business student, remained undecided. “I can see pros and cons of firearm ownership,” he said. He shot firearms with his Boy Scout troop when he was younger and describes shooting as “enjoyable.”

The quick tour Senior Curator Doug Wicklund gave the group highlighted the Museum’s 18 galleries, including the Guns West! Exhibit, which was very popular among the students. “The Western guns, especially Clint Eastwood’s guns, were cool,” Castleberry said. The students were given an additional hour to enjoy self-guided tours and the Museum’s new store.

“I’m for the right to keep and bear arms, because Americans need to maintain the right to defend themselves,” one student said.

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Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds. 

One of the newest and most exciting items available in the NRA National Firearms Museum's store is the new NRA Derringer Butane Lighter, pictured above.

The derringer has two settings, regular and wind-resistant for cigar lighting. The regular setting operates like any generic lighter and by a simple flick of the “safety,” the lighter will ignite the Butane flame. You can pick up your NRA derringer lighter for $9.95. 

The staff of the NRA National Firearms Museum will be at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia, this coming weekend. Check out their table – it's usually in the corner near the café – to see the a special Thanksgiving exhibit produced by Assistant Curator Matt Sharpe:

Stop by the Museum's booth for a chance to win a prize from the NRA Museum store! Guess which firearms represent popular dishes served during a Thanksgiving meal.

You get a head start knowing that on display will be two Turkish “Rat Tail” flintlock pistols, a muzzle-loading pistol from the Revolutionary War era, a German “potato masher” grenade, a Maynard tape roll primer rifle, a revolver owned by superstar trick shot and exhibition shooter Judge Roy Bean, and a 17th Century wheelock carbine which belonged to John Alden, an original settler of the Plymouth colony and signer of the Mayflower Compact. More

Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds. 

Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds. 

If you find yourself in the greater Washington DC area this weekend, make your way to the Museum for a memorable event. The NRA Museum Store, which recently celebrated a grand reopening, will remain open throughout the extended event hours.

Drop by any time between 4 and 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, or 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Costumes are encouraged, or come to see your favorite firearms historians in costume. Senior Curator Phil Schreier, pictured at left, never disappoints. 

"This year promises to be a great event with free treats for kids and food and fun for all," Museum Director Jim Supica told NRAblog.

Supica, whose standard  costume is a cowboy of the Old West, is finishing his first year as Director of the Museum."It's been a great year, but the best is definitely yet to come," Supica said. 

Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds.  

Since the NRA National Firearms Museum has a lovely new gift shop right here at NRA Headquarters, NRAblog has decided to send our newest staff member, Nick Ivey, to the shop once a week to see what he finds.

The NRA has taken its appreciation of their NRA members one step farther with the newest item in the NRA National Firearms Museum’s store: the NRA dog bowl.

After a long hunt or even a short walk, allow your dog to drink with NRA pride in this blue and white ceramic dog bowl.

You look good sporting your NRA gear. Why shouldn’t your favorite pet?

The bowl is available at the NRA Store for $9.95.

Remember, these items are only available at the Museum store. To purchase, visit the Museum or call Store Manager Benjamin Van Scoyoc at 703-267-1608.