Attending Seminars and Workshops at NRA Annual Meeting 2025

AmmoLand ^ | May 7, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The seminars and workshops offered at the NRA Annual Meetings are an often overlooked and valuable resource.  The seminars and workshops are held in smaller spaces in the same venue as the annual meeting. The seminars and workshops are usually held in meeting rooms. The rooms typically hold a couple of hundred people. They fill up at popular times and have plenty of extra space when people are leaving the event.

This correspondent attended a seminar conducted by Major John L. Plaster, the well-known author and expert on Vietnam and the SOG secret wars in Laos and Cambodia. Behind Enemy Lines: The Men and Guns of SOG, by Major Plaster, was offered only once.

 

The level of expertise was world-class. The seminar lasted two hours and was free to NRA Meeting attendees.  This correspondent learned a great deal about the scope of the conflict, the techniques and tactics used, in the two hours than from years of occasional contact with veterans. Considerable misinformation that was widely spread by the old media was dispelled.

More than two dozen seminars and workshops were available during the NRA Annual Meeting over a three-day period. Many of the seminars were offered several times during the three days of the event. Here are a few of the offerings that were available:

• The 26TH NATIONAL  FIREARMS LAW SEMINAR
• ARMED CITIZEN: HOW TO INTERACT WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
• GUNS OF IWO JIMA
• RELOAD LIKE A CHAMPION

There were over twenty others. Noted researcher and author John Lott gave several seminars over the three days. These seminars offer rare opportunities to interact with top authorities in their field, such as John Lott and Major Plaster. The seminars offer information and insights nearly impossible to obtain elsewhere. Most of the 70,000-plus attendees ignore the free seminars and workshops.

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[marktwain]

The seminars offered at the NRA Annual Meetings are often world class. They are free to NRA attendees.

[Racketeer]

“Shall not be infringed” means nothing to the NRA. They need “infringement” as their boogeyman for their fundraising efforts. Same model as the Military Industrial Complex!!