by The National Rifle Association’s Board of Directors meets in person three times a year. The spring meeting is on the Monday after the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibition, the fall meeting is in September, and the winter meeting is in January. Members of the NRA are always welcome to attend these meetings. Of course, if the Board goes into Executive Session, you will be asked to step outside the room while that goes on.
Our September meeting including committee meetings will start on Wednesday, September 16th and continue through Saturday, September 19th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Washington Dulles Airport. The hotel is located at 13869 Park Center Drive in Herndon, VA which is about five miles from the airport. (Corrected the address as there are two Doubtree Hotels near Dulles).
I personally will have committee meetings on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as the Audit, Membership, and Legislative Policy Committees will meet on those days respectively. NRA members can attend committee meetings but, like with the Board of Director’s meeting, will need to leave if and when the committee goes into executive session. Committees like Audit, Finance, and Legal Affairs probably will spend a good part of their meetings in such sessions due to the confidential subjects being discussed.
If you live in the Metro DC area or within a reasonable driving distance, I would encourage you to attend. After all, it is your NRA.
The full schedule is below. This is the revised schedule with new room locations.
I am familiar with the criteria for executive session in the public sector but what are the NRA rules.
Under Art III, Section 6(d) of the bylaws, members can attend all Board, committee, or other meetings except when in Executive Session.
The bylaws mandate that the Board must go into Executive Session for a few things – compensation of the salaried officers and voting on recommendations from the Hearings Committee on punishments for either members or directors.
In my experience, we go into Executive Session when discussing financial and audit reports, tax filings (Form 990), sensitive political strategy from ILA, legal issues including reports from attorneys, etc. Staff can usually remain as can other directors who are not on the committee. I would note that in the Audit Committee we have asked staff to leave when we asked the outside auditors if there was anything they needed to add outside the hearing of staffers when discussing the annual audit. The answer has invariably been “no”.
The Chief Compliance Officer is allowed to remain in all committee meetings except during the ones that deal with his compensation or if it was a disciplinary matter involving the CCO. That is a bylaw change made in April 2026 which keeps us in compliance with the Final Judgment of the NY court.
We report out a thumbnail of what was discussed without going into detail. For example, it might say, “we received a report on ongoing litigation” or “the draft Form 990 was reviewed with auditors”.
In my own experience on the Board, we have tried to keep as much stuff out of Executive Session as possible especially during Board meetings. In Audit we don’t have as much choice on things unlike say Membership or LegPol. Even then, at the Board meeting in April, the agenda was changed to keep things in executive session to later in the meeting so there would be fewer interruptions.
I hope this helps.
In public sector, political issues are (formally) open session although various dodges are employed. So is audit and finance. Legal and personnel is the same as you.