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America's First Freedom provides news for the membership of the NRA with the goal of delivering professional, moving, and accurate journalism that promotes knowledge about the threats to our Second Amendment Rights
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Standing Guard | The NRA 2.0
The NRA is back and, with your help, we are moving resolutely forward to defend your liberty.
NRA’s Diagnosis Proves Correct: Biden’s Surgeon General Is An Anti-Gun Hack
The surgeon general’s attempt to incorporate gun control into his public-health portfolio is just the latest attack from this administration on the Second Amendment.
President’s Column | Victories In The States
Just as important as the repeated nationwide victories are the NRA’s many battles won in courtrooms and legislatures across the country.
Correcting the FBI’s Faulty “Active-Shooter” Data
The real data paints a different picture.
The Frustrating Problem With Federal Gun Statistics
If the FBI would take so-called “gun-free zones” from the equation, they’d have to report that, when good citizens can go armed, they often do stop murderers.
The Armed Citizen® August 15, 2024
True stories of the right to keep and bear arms.
Where Does Walz Stand on Your Freedom?
Tim Walz has treated a basic human freedom, a right solidified in our founding document by the Second Amendment, as a politically inconvenient position for him.
NRA Country | The Jacob Bryant Signature Collection
Jacob Bryant is a true American patriot. He stands proudly for his faith, family, friends and firearms.
The Armed Citizen® August 9, 2024
True stories of the right to keep and bear arms.
Women On Target
To truly see the value of any NRA program, it’s best to attend in person. This seems particularly true for Women on Target.
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Must-Haves for Gun Owners
Gun Skills | Defensive Ammunition, Part 4
It’s imperative to find which cartridge works best for any potential defensive scenario that may arise.
Gun Review | Smith & Wesson M&P FPC
This folding-pistol carbine is good for just about anything from home protection to plinking and it’s hard to beat beat having this many rounds of 9 mm in a long-gun package at your immediate disposal.
Is This the Most-Extreme Gun-Control Bill Yet?
A sweeping anti-Second Amendment measure passed recently by the Massachusetts legislature.
The Spin on Harris’ Gun-Control Agenda
Kamala Harris, gun-control groups and the mainstream media are working tirelessly to distance her from, incredibly, her own policy stances on our freedom.
The Armed Citizen® August 2, 2024
True stories of the right to keep and bear arms.
More Proof That Gun-Control Activists Just Aren’t Thinking
The selective blindness of America’s gun-control advocates has reached legendary levels. Their predictable response is always for more gun control, but their arguments are inherently flawed from the start.
NYAG Fails in Politically Motivated Attack to Dissolve the NRA and Install Monitor
New York Judge Joel Cohen denied New York Attorney General Letitia James’ request for a court-appointed overseer to monitor the National Rifle Association.
The Future Of The NRA
Much of the mainstream media has been heralding the downfall of the NRA for years, but they could not be more wrong.
An Introduction to Doug Hamlin, NRA’s New CEO
The NRA’s new CEO discusses his background, the importance of this organization and more.