As a member of the National Rifle Association of America, you know exactly how hard this organization works to maintain high firearms instruction and safety-education standards. Now, anti-gun lawmakers in some state legislatures around the country are redoubling their efforts to dismantle the Second Amendment by sponsoring legislation that removes NRA from state statutes as a recognized group to certify instructors to teach firearms safety courses.
The removal of NRA as a training entity is a disservice to all law-abiding gun owners. NRA’s firearms instruction curriculum—with a history going back to the 19th century—is known worldwide as the gold standard to which all others aspire. And with a network of 125,000 certified instructors, which is arguably the largest in the world, any legislator championing an effort to remove NRA from state law is an enemy of safety and the Second Amendment.