Annually the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms co-hosts the Gun Rights Policy Conference. Watch the 40th GRPC from their two livestreams!
The 2025 GRPC will launch on the evening of Friday, September 26, in Salt Lake City, Utah. While the weekend’s kick-off reception won’t be livestreamed, the lectures, speeches, and fireside chats scheduled for Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th will be available for viewers to watch at home.
The Second Amendment Foundation and sister organization Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms co-hosts the event annually free of charge. GRPC is held after SAF’s and CCRKBA’s annual board of director/trustee meetings, and it gives members and supporters an opportunity to hear from the most influential voices in the Second Amendment arena and network. The many talks, speeches, lectures, etc. act in part to fulfill the organizations' missions; to educate on the Second Amendment.
Saturday, September 27, 2025 livestream can be accessed HERE and it starts at 8:00 a.m. Mountain Time (7:00 a.m Pacific, 9:00 a.m. Central, and 10:00 a.m. Eastern).
Sunday, September 28, 2025 livestream can be accessed HERE and it starts at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time (8:00 a.m. Pacific, 10:00 a.m. Central, and 11:00 a.m. Eastern).
The Foundation and Committee have released the final schedule as well. The schedule for the 2025 conference, “Advocacy Through Action,” can be accessed HERE.
Some of the biggest movers and shakers of the Second Amendment advocacy world are scheduled to give presentations and include:
- Alan Gottlieb, founder and Executive Vice President, Second Amendment Foundation
- Adam Kraut, Executive Director, Second Amendment Foundation
- AWR Hawkins, Columnist, Breitbart News
- Ryan Petty, Co-Founder, The Walkup Foundation
- Ava Flanell, Vice-President of Legislative Engagement, Colorado State
- Shooting Association
- Joseph Greenlee, Director of the Office of Litigation Counsel, NRA-ILA
- Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of the State of Montana
- Steve Montenegro, Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives
- Cam Edwards, Editor, BearingArms.com, Host, Cam & Company podcast and CCRKBA
- Director
- Ed Paltzik, Litigation Counsel for SAF, Of Counsel at Taylor Dykema PLLC
- Owen Miller, Vice President, American Suppressor Association
- Chris Boeck, General Counsel, Silencer Shop
- Kerrie Ann Auclair, Massachusetts State Director, Women for Gun Rights, and Armed Women of America
- Massad Ayoob, President, Second Amendment Foundation
- John Lott, President, Crime Prevention Research Center
- Christian Craighead, Former UK Tier 1 Special Operations
- Braxton Mitchell, State Representative from Montana
- Sara Weaver, Ruby Ridge Survivor, Author
- Chris Cox, President, Capitol 6 Advisors
- Hayes H. Wanamaker, board-certified Otolaryngologist and Associate Director,
- Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (a SAF project)
- William V. Bergstrom, Litigation Counsel for SAF, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
- Jim Giudice, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, PublicSquare
- Martha Dean, Attorney, Law Offices of Martha A. Dean, LLC
- Kenyon Gleason, President, National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers
- and SAF Board of Trustees member
- Doug Hamlin, CEO and Executive Vice President, NRA
- Mark Smith, Host, 4 Boxes Diner YouTube Channel and Constitutional Scholar
- Jared Yanis, Host, Guns & Gadgets YouTube Channel
- Clark Aposhian, Chairman of the Board and registered lobbyist, Utah Shooting
- Sports Council, and Host, Gun Radio Utah
- Robyn Sandoval, President, CEO, and Owner, A Girl & A Gun
- Lee Williams, Chief Editor, SAF’s Investigative Journalism Project
- Bill Sack, Director of Legal Operations, Second Amendment Foundation
- Susan Myers, Missouri’s State Director, Women for Gun Rights
- Bobby Cox, Chief Government Affairs Officer and Senior Vice President, SIG SAUER
- Dianna Muller, Founder, Women for Gun Rights
- Konstadinos Moros, Director of Legal Research and Education, Second
- Amendment Foundation
- Eric Soskin, Senior Advisor to Governor Ron DeSantis
- Phil Nelsen, Senior VP, Sales & Partnership, US Law Shield
The emcee scheduled for Saturday is Mark Walters. Walters is the nationally syndicated radio host of Armed American Radio and one of TALKERS Magazine Heavy 100 — “The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America.” The award-winning host also serves as a director — along with Cam and myself — on the board of CCRKBA. Walters broadcasts six days a week, starting with a three-hour long “Monster Cast” on Sundays.
Charlie Cook, the award-winning host of the Riding Shotgun With Charlie podcast, is scheduled to be the emcee on Sunday. Cook was the 2017 recipient of SAF’s “Defender of Liberty” award, 2019 recipient of SAF’s “Blogger of the Year” award, and operates his trademarked “Gun Grams” YouTube channel — which has over 7.9 million views, has been featured on Comedy Central, and on CBS “Right This Minute.” Through the Toastmasters International, Cook has earned the “Advanced Communicator,” “Advanced Leader,” and received two “Triple Crown” awards for his excellence in public speaking.
If you’re not able to make it to this great event in person, we hope that you’ll join in virtually. For more information about GRPC or to get in on the fun if you want to make a last minute registration, head to saf.org/grpc/.
As a sidebar, while the board of directors/trustee meetings are occurring Friday, September 26, the Alternative Mass Media Conference will be going on. The AMM-Con committee has also released their final schedule.
AMM-Con is a chance for those interested in Second Amendment media to hear from some of the folks who create content for our community. The keynote speaker is Michael Schwartz from San Diego County Gun Owners PAC and Gun Owners Radio.
If you’d decided to make a last minute sprint to GRPC and want to check out AMM-Con too, that requires a separate registration at: saf.org/2025-amm-con/
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