by The Gun Rights Policy Conference starts this coming Friday evening in Salt Lake City with a reception. Co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the conference itself kicks off on Saturday morning.
Here is the final agenda for GRPC: https://saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GRPC-2025-Agenda-FINAL.pdf
Reading over the agenda there are a lot of great speakers. I must say as a member of the NRA Board of Directors I am quite pleased to see that the NRA-ILA’s Director of Litigation Joe Greenlee and NRA EVP/CEO Doug Hamlin are on the agenda to speak. For too many years the 2A community was split into their own little camps and competition rather than cooperation was the rule. Over the last couple of years things have changed and cooperation is now the rule. This is as it should be.
When I went to my first Gun Rights Policy Conference in 2010, live streaming was non-existent. We did have Charles Heller of Liberty Watch Radio recording the conference and making audio available on thumb drives for later listening. Then the next year Mark Vanderberg and Doc Wesson of the old Gun Rights Radio Network provided a live feed using a webcam (if I remember correctly). It progressed from there to Paul Lathrop of the Polite Society Podcast doing the live stream for a few years.
According to this release from SAF, both days will be live streamed through the links below and on their social media channels.
For those who can’t make the event in-person, the Saturday and Sunday GRPC 2025 sessions will be livestreamed beginning at 8 a.m. (MST) on Saturday and 9 a.m. (MST) on Sunday. The links will also be sent via SAF’s email newsletter and posted to the organization’s social media channels.
This will be the 40th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. I have both attended and spoken at a number of them. One change that I think is welcome is that they have reduced the number of speakers but have given them more time to speak. So instead of having 4-5 minutes for each speaker with only a chance at hitting the bullet points in that time, the scheduled speakers will be able to give a more fuller and richer presentation.
As you can tell, I am looking forward to this weekend. I hope to see many old friends there and make some new ones.