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Firearm Instruction, Responsibility, and Safety Training — is the NRA’s response to the American public’s need for a firearm orientation program for new purchasers. NRA FIRST Steps Pistol is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper orientation to one specific pistol action type for classes of four or fewer students. This course is at least three hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot a specific pistol action type. Students will learn the NRA’s rules for safe gun handling; the particular pistol model parts and operation; ammunition; shooting fundamentals; cleaning the pistol; and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the Basics of Pistol Shooting handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, FIRST Steps Course completion certificate. NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Course Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude for owning and operating a pistol safely. This course is at least 8-hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot revolvers and semi- automatic pistols.
Students learn NRA’s rules for safe gun handling; pistol parts and operation; ammunition; shooting fundamentals; range rules; shooting from the bench rest position, and two handed standing positions; cleaning the pistol; and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Pistol Shooting handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, take a Basics of Pistol Shooting Student Examination, and course completion certificate. NRA FIRST Steps Rifle Orientation Firearm Instruction, Responsibility, and Safety Training — is the NRA’s response to the American public’s need for a firearm orientation program for new purchasers. NRA FIRST Steps Rifle is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper orientation to one specific rifle action type for classes of four or fewer students. This course is at least three hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot a specific rifle action type. Students will learn the NRA’s rules for safe gun handling; the particular rifle model parts and operation; ammunition; shooting fundamentals; cleaning the rifle; and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the Basics of Rifle Shooting handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, FIRST Steps Course completion certificate.
NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary for the safe use of a rifle in target shooting. This course is at least 14 hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot rifles.
Students learn NRA’s rules for safe gun handling; rifle parts and operation; ammunition; shooting fundamentals; range rules; shooting from the bench rest, prone, sitting, standing and kneeling positions; cleaning, and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the Basics of Rifle Shooting handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, take a Basics of Rifle Shooting Student Examination, and course completion certificate.
The NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course introduces the students to the knowledge, skills and attitude necessary for owning and using a rifle safely. Through this course, the students will learn about rifle parts and operation, ammunition, gun safety, zeroing rifle sites, and rifle shooting fundamentals. The Basic Rifle Course. Training Handbooks, Videos and Range Manuals. NRA Program Materials Center Security Protecting your order information is a priority. The National Rifle. Nonprofit organizations and associations can apply for grant funding to help start their NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program. Friends of NRA dinner/auction fundraising events are being conducted across the United States to benefit the NRA Foundation. 100% of the monies raised in each state (over expenses) go to The NRA Foundation.
The National Rifle Association is perhaps best known for gun-ownership rights and lobbying hard against any efforts to limit those rights. How many individuals consider the NRA a great publishing house? Apparently, the answer to that is more than one million. This is also a testament to just how strong gun sales have been up until recently.
The NRA announced that it has now of the NRA Guide to the Basics of Pistol Shooting. This is the Basic Pistol handbook used by many (if one million isn’t a lot, what is?) for responsible pistol use and as an at-home reference guide for gun owners.
The NRA also calls this book the foundation of the NRA’s Basic Pistol and FIRST Steps Pistol Orientation courses. On top of selling one million books, we see that the book was first published in July of 2009. Has anyone ever seen this on the New York Times list of best sellers?
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The guide sells for $11.00 at the NRA website, but it can be purchased both individually and as part of a NRA Instructor-led course from the NRA’s Program Materials Center. It is discussed at the NRA website review as follows: “This full-color handbook on revolver and semi-automatic pistol shooting is one in a series of NRA publications on the basics of shooting. It is the student text for the Basic Pistol Shooting Course and includes such topics as pistol parts and operation, ammunition, using a pistol safely, operating a pistol, cleaning, storing and transporting a pistol, shooting fundamentals, shooting positions, improving and maintaining shooting skills, and buying a pistol.” Gun sales and ammunition sales were on fire at the end of 2012 and well into 2013. That demand has tempered since then, although stores are either not stocked as well as they used to be or the prices have been permanently raised versus a year ago. Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: SWHC) was able to raise guidance more than once over strong demand in the last ten months. It was even able to conduct a large share buyback.
At $10.78, the 52-week range is $7.67 to $13.38 and the market cap is now about $675 million. Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE: RGR) is up closer to its high than rival Smith & Wesson. Its market is higher at $1.25 billion based upon a share price of about $64.50. Sturm, Ruger shares have traded in a 52-week range of $40.00 to $70.32.
Sturm, Ruger even has NRA-branded pistols. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK) is the largest American ammunition maker, selling to the armed forced, government, law enforcement, and the public. Its shares just hit a new high of $110.57. With a $3.5 billion market cap, Alliant has been trying to diversify away from being so dependent upon large government orders. Still, a new high in the stock price has to be a testament to something that has permanently changed about its business.
If you want proof that gun and ammo sales have backed off of a frenzy level, look no further than Cabela’s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB). Its earnings a week ago were plagued by falling gun and ammo sales even if the net profit was up. Cabela’s has a market value of more than $4.2 billion based upon a $59.85 share price, but the stock was up over $62 before the earnings report. To hear about one million of these NRA books being sold may not sound like much when you compare the sales to Stephen King or Anne Rice books. Now consider that most people who buy new things often do not read the handbooks and manuals that come with them.
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That is true for cars and other big-ticket items, and is true for guns as well. And how many people go out and buy a handbook on a new product that they have to pay for? Now imagine how many pistols were sold in the last couple of years if there have been one million of these books sold just for pistols.