It was Tennyson who wrote that “In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
For many of us men who left “young” in the rearview mirror some years back, however, in the spring our fancy turns to something else entirely: the
National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting, this year being held in Nashville TN. Professor Jacobson has kindly offered this blog as a forum from which I can share the legal and political observations from that event.
The NRA Annual Meeting: It's big. Really, really big.
I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that I only first attended the
NRA Annual Meeting (or NRAAM) last year, when it was held in Indianapolis, although I’ve been a life member and certified firearms instructor of the NRA for more than two decades.
Indeed, it would never have occurred to me to go even last year, except I was extended a gracious invitation to speak at the
Firearms Law Seminar held as part of the event (
you can view my talk here, I mostly talked about Stand-Your-Ground and my then-recent victory in the UC Berkeley School of Law “Stand-Your-Ground” debate).
Perhaps the best known facet of the NRAAM is the enormous exhibit hall in which over 500 members of the gun industry present their wares. And I do mean
enormous, there are over 8
acres of guns and related sundries. One can literally spend days wandering the hall and still come across unexpected discoveries
