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Help the NRA blaze a trail to victory on Election Day 2016 by getting hunters and shooters in your own community to promote pro-freedom candidates.

As we get set to ring in the New Year, here are the hot-topic conversations I’ll be having this holiday.

Calling all hunters! Get set to tune in to live debate in New York City on Wednesday as prominent hunter conservationists take on vicious anti-hunting extremists.

About this time last year, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., pledged to donate $2 to the National Rifle Association for each new Ruger firearm sold between the 2015 and 2016 NRA Annual Meetings. Ruger delivered on its promise, and donated some $4 million to NRA earlier this year, in Louisville. The success has inspired the company to raise the bar a peg and extend the promotion—enter the "2.5 Million Gun Challenge."

Taurus is auctioning off a 10th Anniversary Judge on GunBroker.com, and all proceeds will benefit the ongoing efforts of NRA-ILA. The auction is live now, and runs through Oct. 2, 2016.

Federal excise taxes collected on the sale of rifles, shotguns, handguns, ammunition and archery gear have nearly tripled during the past decade, boosting federal funding for the nation’s wildlife and hunter-education programs to record levels even though many handgun, ammo and archery buyers don’t hunt.

Hunters in Indiana and Kansas scored landslide victories during the 2016 General Election when voters overwhelmingly approved adding an amendment to each state’s constitution that preserves the right to hunt.

Dana Loesch, the conservative leader, online pioneer and nationally syndicated radio host, will serve as a major national spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.

Pete Brownell of Montezuma, Iowa was elected by the National Rifle Association Board of Directors as President May 1, 2017, following the 146th NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Atlanta.