Saturday Sept. 27, 2025 Gun Rights Policy Conference LIVESTREAM

The 2025 Gun Rights Policy Conference co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms will be broadcast via livestream. 

The livestream for Saturday, September 27, 2025 will start at 8:00 a.m. Mountain Time (7:00 a.m Pacific, 9:00 a.m. Central, and 10:00 a.m. Eastern).

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The annual conference brings together some of the biggest Second Amendment movers and shakers in the country. GRPC is an opportunity to hear from those who are responsible for: reporting on policy, doing research on policy, writing policy, and enacting change in policy. The lineup of speakers for the 2025 event is top notch.

The full schedule for Saturday is as follows with all times in Salt Lake City, Utah Mountain Time Zone:

• 8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks — Alan Gottlieb and Adam Kraut, Executive Director, Second Amendment Foundation
• 8:15 a.m. Self-Defense: The ‘Central Component’ of the Second Amendment — AWR Hawkins, Columnist, Breitbart News
• 8:30 a.m. What it Takes to Protect America’s Schools — Ryan Petty, Co-Founder, The Walkup Foundation
• 8:45 a.m. From Passion to Purpose: My Path to 2A Advocacy —  Ava Flanell, Vice-President of Legislative Engagement, Colorado State Shooting Association
• 9:00 a.m. A Review of Lower Court Cases in the Wake of Bruen — Joseph Greenlee, Director of the Office of Litigation Counsel, NRA-ILA
• 9:15 a.m. Fireside Chat with MT AG and AZ Speaker of the House — Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of the State of Montana and Steve Montenegro, Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives
• 10:00 a.m. Break sponsored by 2A Bourbon
• 10:15 a.m. Countering the Gun Control Long Game —  Cam Edwards, Editor, BearingArms.com, Host of Cam & Company podcast and CCRKBA Director
• 10:30 a.m. Guilt by Association: Confiscation Arising from the Temporarily Disqualified Family Member — Ed Paltzik, Litigation Counsel for SAF, Of Counsel at Taylor Dykema PLLC
• 10:45 a.m. Your Right to Remain Silent: Legal Update on Silencers — Owen Miller, Vice President, American Suppressor Association and Chris Boeck, General Counsel, Silencer Shop
• 11:15 a.m. Advocacy Through Action: The Future is Watching — Kerrie Ann Auclair, Massachusetts State Director, Women for Gun Rights and Armed Women of America
• 11:30 a.m. How Far We’ve Come — Massad Ayoob, President, Second Amendment Foundation
• 11:45 a.m. Break sponsored by 2A Bourbon
• 12:00 a.m. Awards Luncheon sponsored by Volquartsen
• 12:10 a.m. Understanding Mass Murderers and How to Stop Them
• John Lott, President, Crime Prevention Research Center
• 12:30 p.m. Special Awards presented by SAF and Special Awards presented by CCRKBA
• 1:00 p.m. Break sponsored by CZ
• 1:15 p.m. Keynote Speaker — Christian Craighead, Former UK Tier 1 Special Operations
• 1:45 p.m. How the Second Amendment Got Me into Politics as a Teenager — Braxton Mitchell, State Representative from Montana
• 2:00 p.m. Fireside Chat with Sara Weaver — Sara Weaver, Ruby Ridge Survivor, Author
• 2:30 p.m. Past, Present and Future of 2A Politics — Chris Cox, President, Capitol 6 Advisors
• 3:00 p.m. Break sponsored by CZ
• 3:15 p.m. Gunshots, Hearing Loss, and Suppressors: The Science Behind Hearing Protection Hayes H. Wanamaker, board-certified Otolaryngologist and Associate Director, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (a SAF project)
• 3:30 p.m. Litigating Arms Bans: Lessons from Recent Assault Weapon Litigation in the Courts of Appeals — William V. Bergstrom, Litigation Counsel for SAF, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
• 3:45 p.m. Killing Chokepoint: Building an Antifragile Future for the Firearms Industry — Jim Giudice, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, PublicSquare
• 4:00 p.m. Defending Outdoor Ranges Under Fire — Martha Dean, Attorney, Law Offices of Martha A. Dean, LLC
• 4:15 p.m. State of the Industry — Kenyon Gleason, President, National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers and SAF Board of Trustees member
• 4:30 p.m. A United Front — Doug Hamlin, CEO and Executive Vice President, NRA
• 4:45 p.m. The Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court: What to Expect Next? — Mark Smith, Host, 4 Boxes Diner YouTube Channel and Constitutional Scholar
• 5:00 p.m. Proof Positive: Action Turns Advocacy into Victory — Jared Yanis, Host, Guns & Gadgets YouTube Channel
• 5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks

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.

Also, tune in for the Sunday, September 28, 2025 livestream of the 2025 Gun Rights Policy Conference, you can check it out HERE.

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