President Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at an event on May 18 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center downtown.
DALLAS — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to address members of the National Rifle Association when it gathers for its annual meeting in Dallas later this month.
President Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at an event on May 18 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center downtown. The NRA Annual Meeting was last held in 2018 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
Gov. Greg Abbott is also scheduled to speak at the NRA leadership forum on May 18th.
President Trump first addressed the NRA in 2015, and the Dallas meeting will be his ninth address to the organization.
As reported by the Associated Press, President Trump recently told commissioners at the NRA's Great American Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in February that when he returns to the White House, “nobody will have access to your firearms.” “I wouldn't even touch it with a finger,” he said.
“Nothing happened for four years. And there was a lot of pressure to have something to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn't budge,” Trump said, as reported by the Associated Press. the president said at the event.
President Trump has repeatedly promised to protect the rights of gun owners, despite calls for policy changes in the wake of recent mass shootings. In North Texas, May 6 marks one year since a gunman killed eight people and injured seven others at Allen Premium Outlets.
The NRA's annual meeting is billed as “the nation's largest gathering of NRA members and Second Amendment supporters,” with three days of seminars and events and 14 acres of guns and equipment, according to the group. It will include an exhibition hall.
As reported by the Associated Press, this year's annual meeting revealed that a New York jury found that former longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre had stolen millions of dollars of the group's funds. The hearing comes less than a year after he was found liable in a lawsuit alleging he improperly spent on expensive benefits. In that case, LaPierre was ordered to pay the group about $4.4 million in restitution, the Associated Press reported. He announced his resignation as CEO of the NRA in January, days before the civil trial began, according to the Associated Press.
President Trump's own hush money trial is underway in New York. President Trump is accused of falsifying business records at the Trump Organization in an effort to suppress reporting that he feared could harm his 2016 presidential campaign, the Associated Press reported.
According to the Associated Press, the charges center on alleged payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougall.
