美国全国步枪协会主要致力于主办火器安全训练课程,组织各种射击活动、运动、比赛,以及开展一些青少年射击运动与妇女射击项目。在政治上,它也发挥着巨大的影响力。Chris W. Cox 是美国全国步枪协会的首席说客和主要的政治战略家,他从2002年就担任着该职位。在美國史上有八位美国总统都是美国全国步枪协会的会员。同时作为一支不可忽略的政治力量,美国全国步枪协会在选举、政治运动上都发挥了极其重要的作用。
2021年6月23日,對抗槍枝氾濫與槍枝暴力的美國民權組織「Change the Ref」發布一系列網路影片,片中前美国全国步枪协会主席大衛·基恩(David Keene)對著虛構學校「詹姆斯·麥迪遜學院」畢業典禮講台下3044張空椅高談擁槍權,卻沒有發現一切都是Change the Ref一手策劃安排的設局。Change the Ref表示,這場行動的目的是凸顯槍枝暴力導致畢業典禮上出現數千張空椅,「畢業典禮上的數千張空椅已經成為『新的美國傳統』」[12]。
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^The National Rifle Association. The New York Times. September 17, 1871 [2020-09-16]. (原始内容存档于2017-05-10). A meeting of the National Rifle Association was held in the Seventh Regiment armory yesterday, Gen. J.P. Woodward, of the second Division, presided, and Col. H.G. Shaw officiated as Secretary. Articles of association were presented and adopted. The incorporators are composed of forty prominent officers and ex-officers of the National Guard. Membership in the Association is to be open to all persons interested in the promotion of the rifle practice. Regiments and companies in the National Guard are entitled by the by-laws to constitute all their regular members in good standing members of the Association on the payment of one-half of the entrance fees and annual dues.