G&A Online Editors - April 08, 2015

Preview: 2015 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits

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The 2015 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits are set to begin on April 10 in Nashville, Tenn., and G&A will be providing exclusive web coverage of all the best new guns, ammo, optics and shooting gear.

More than 550 industry exhibitors are slated to attend the event, located at the Music City Center in the heart of Nashville. The event is also open to all NRA members.

Highlights from the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits included over 75,000 people in attendance to see new products from Taurus, Bushnell, Blackhawk and many other great manufacturers.

As with previous NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits, G&A will offer detailed coverage of new product introductions as well as coverage of the event itself. G&A editors will also continue our tradition of interviewing NRA members about various firearm topics for our Man on the Street series of web videos. Comments from last year's show revealed an assortment of informed and entertaining opinions from gun owners.

If you plan to attend this year's show, keep an eye out for the team of G&A online editors who will be actively seeking the opinions of those in attendance. We want to hear from you! G&A enjoys meeting with all of those who follow the world's most widely read firearms magazine.

Stay tuned for updates on all the trending products from the show and we hope to see you in Nashville!

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