{"id":16786,"date":"2012-09-04T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2012-09-04T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:18:00","slug":"friends-of-nra-serving-up-big-banquet-down-the-street-from-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/friends-of-nra-serving-up-big-banquet-down-the-street-from-nra\/16786\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of NRA serving up big banquet down the street from NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fairfax, Virginia, hosting one of the year&#8217;s biggest dinners<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16787\" title=\"FairfaxFriendsOfTheNRA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FairfaxFriendsOfTheNRA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FairfaxFriendsOfTheNRA.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FairfaxFriendsOfTheNRA-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>After a hiatus in 2011, the Fairfax Friends of NRA, the closest committee to NRA Headquarters, is back and will be raising money for Northern Virginia shooting sports on Friday, October 5.<\/p>\n<p>The new Eastern Virginia NRA Field Rep, David Wells, is heading up the event and it&#8217;s sure to be a good one with plenty of big names in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Just down the road from headquarters at The Waterford at Fair Oaks, this event features a live auction, silent auction and special drawings, event attendees will be walking away with limited edition firearms, custom knives, NRA Commissioned Art, items created especially for this event and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a regular ticket, you can purchase event sponsor packages that give you the choice of receiving special firearms and\/or bonus raffle tickets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofnra.org\/eventdocs\/Virginia\/Fairfax%20SM-Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Learn all about sponsorship information with the event&#8217;s flyer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to be in Northern Virginia next month this is a can&#8217;t-miss event.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in getting a ticket? There are a couple things you can do. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofnra.org\/EventDetails.aspx?eid=9459&amp;sid=48\" target=\"_blank\">Buy one online on the Friends of NRA website<\/a>, contact NRA&#8217;s Nick Tsoucalas at <a href=\"mailto:ntsoucalas@nrahq.org\">ntsoucalas@nrahq.org<\/a> or (703) 267-1419, or through Nicole McMahon at <a href=\"mailto:nmcmahon@nrahq.org\">nmcmahon@nrahq.org<\/a> or (703) 267-1342.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrablog.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16751 alignnone\" title=\"NRAblogLogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NRAblogLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>NRAblog is your connection to the programs of the NRA. It is a project of the NRA\u2019s Media Relations Division. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">PUBLISHING:<\/span>Deputy Executive Director<span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Andrea Cerwinske<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">CONTRIBUTORS: <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Kerrin Brinkman<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. E-mail her at KBrinkman (AT) nrahq.org.<br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Lars Dalseide<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. E-mail him at LDalseide (AT) nrahq.org.<br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Kyle Jillson<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. E-mail him at KJillson (AT) nrahq.org.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hiatus in 2011, the Fairfax Friends of NRA, the closest committee to NRA Headquarters, is back and will be raising money for Northern Virginia shooting sports on Friday, October 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,5],"tags":[2624,2623],"class_list":["post-16786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","category-second-amendment","tag-friends-of-nra","tag-nrablog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}