NRA Media Present special-edition digital publication: What NRA Does for Women

NRA Media is proud to present a special-edition digital publication, “What NRA Does for Women,” celebrating the history and programs for and by women of the NRA. For many years, the National Rifle Association was viewed as an organization largely led and dominated by men. While that assumption wasn’t entirely wrong—after all, the NRA was created in 1871 by Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate to address soldiers’ underwhelming marksmanship skills demonstrated on the battlefield during the U.S. Civil War—we have proof that women have always been welcome and celebrated throughout NRA’s 153-year history.

The rise to women’s status as the fastest-growing demographic of gun owners has happened in fits and starts, but women were indeed well-represented within the NRA even in its earliest days. While it would still be nearly 50 years after the NRA came into existence before full women’s suffrage in the U.S. was realized, women have always been essential in transforming the nation’s oldest civil rights organization into the world’s most respected and influential gun-rights group.

Created by the women editors of NRA Media, What NRA Does for Women spotlights some of the major milestones and accomplishments of the pioneering women who forged the path for the modern woman gun owner, and who were integral in helping NRA programs earn their deserved reputation as the gold standard for firearm education and training. A unique timeline walks you through the earliest days of NRA to the most recent contributions by the women who proudly call themselves NRA members. A sampling of women-specific “Armed Citizen®” entries, a visit to the NRA Whittington Center’s Adventure Camps tailored to women, and suggestions for “Great Guns for Women” are just a few of the articles contained within What NRA Does for Women.

While NRA Media’s newest and fastest-growing website—NRAWomen.com—is always on the cutting edge of the most relevant and up-to-date information that affects women and the Second Amendment, this digital magazine—What NRA Does for Women—highlights NRA’s many programs and activities geared toward women: recreational and competitive shooting; hunting; Second Amendment advocacy; and today’s primary reason for firearm ownership by women—self-defense.

If you know a woman who is contemplating NRA membership, share this book with her to give her dozens of reasons why she must join today.