What We Do

NCRPA ~ What We Do

North Carolina Rifle and Pistol Association (NCRPA) was established in 1938 as the sole state-wide organization affiliated with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP).

Our mission is to protect and preserve our Second Amendment right to bear arms and to promote and preserve the shooting sports, the safe use and storage of firearms, and the principles of marksmanship and self-defense.

We put you in touch and keep you in touch — face to face, voice to voice, email to email — with gun owners, competitive shooters, shooting clubs, gun shops, firearms trainers, and other advocates for the free and dutiful exercise of Second Amendment rights enumerated in both the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of North Carolina.

.

The NCRPA Strives:

To provide for the dissemination of information relating to legislation which might affect the sport of shooting, hunting, and other aspects of gun ownership and use.

To encourage grassroots advocacy and mobilize gun-owners to vote for pro-Second Amendment candidates.

To support NCRPA lobbyists in Raleigh as they work with representatives of the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action to represent the interests of North Carolina gun owners.

To act as a focal point and clearing house for the transmission of ideas, information and recommendations between those interested in the sport of shooting and the NRA.

To provide a central organization in North Carolina which can cooperate with the NRA and the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina and with the public officials generally in making arrangements for holding annual state championship matches with various types of firearms and in conducting contests for the selection of civilian teams to attend the National Matches.

To provide training in the conduct and supervision of target matches.

To encourage the sport of target shooting with all types of firearms and to promote a high standard of safety in all phases of firearms use.

To disseminate information on the relationship between the shooting sports as a recreational activity and conservation of natural resources to the end that sportsmen may act to preserve their environment and to use their firearms intelligently in accord with principles of sensible wildlife management.

To cooperate with the NRA in expanding junior marksmanship programs in North Carolina to include education in conservation and wildlife management so that future sportsman leaders may realize the dependency of their recreational activity on the preservation of the environment.

To encourage training in hunter safety and to cooperate with state authorities in expanding such training programs.

To encourage training in Home Firearms Safety and to cooperate with local law enforcement authorities to promote the safe handling and use of firearms.

To encourage the shooting sports in North Carolina as a lifetime family recreational activity.

NCRPA is a formally registered non-profit civic organization, under both North Carolina and Federal Law.  Due to our political activity as a civic organization, donations to NCRPA are not tax-deductible. NCRPA is run entirely by volunteers.