Effective legislative defense of your Second Amendment rights. Through its Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund, the NRA continually monitors, tracks and systematically combats all threats to your right to keep and bear arms at the federal, state and local level, and supports lawmakers who uphold that constitutional duty.

The VPC is a national 501(c)(3) educational foundation working to move beyond the popular but narrow perception of firearms violence as solely a crime issue to place it in its proper perspective: a widespread public health problem of which crime is merely the most recognized aspect.