{"id":17315,"date":"2018-05-03T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17315"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:09:39","slug":"theres-a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17315","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a first time for everything&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a NRA member for about 41 years now.<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re thinking I&#8217;m awful old or else I joined young: Dad got me a junior membership when I was 12, I think. Maybe earlier.)<\/p>\n<p>In all those years, I have never been to a NRA Annual Meeting. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that I plan to abandon you, my faithful readers, while I run around the convention gun geeking? Of course not!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_0935.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-17314 size-full\" height=\"480\" width=\"270\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Carl Kolchak cosplay, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>(I didn&#8217;t bring a seersucker suit or a straw boater with me. But I do have a hat and a camera and my phone records audio. And Kolchak cosplay seems to be much cheaper than Steve McQueen cosplay.)<\/p>\n<p>(Did you know you can design your own <a href=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8434\/7576300456_587cc30000_z.jpg\">press pass<\/a> online, and have it professionally printed and sent to you? Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/professor-lawdogs-school-of-mayhem-and.html?m=1\">LawDog<\/a> for the inspiration.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post as much as I can as and when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a NRA member for about 41 years now. (If you&#8217;re thinking I&#8217;m awful old or else I joined young: Dad got me a junior membership when I was 12, I think. Maybe earlier.) In all those years, I have never been to a NRA Annual Meeting. Until now. Does this mean that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,3,224,225,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-guns","category-nra","category-nraam","category-travel","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}