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In honor of NRA/ILA’s hard work in rallying NRA members and Congress to combat the ATF’s proposed changes to the M855/SS109 ammo exemption framework, Larry and Brenda Potterfield, owners of MidwayUSA, will make a $100,000 donation to the NRA/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the Second Amendment.

At the 2016 NRA Annual Meetings Corporate Executives’ Luncheon, sponsored by Speedway Motor Sports, Inc., industry leaders gave an inspirational show of solidarity against the threat of Second Amendment political battles.

For the 15th straight year, the NRA Publications Division recognizes standouts from the firearm industry to receive its highest honor. Here’s a review of the winners as originally covered in “The World’s Oldest and Largest Firearm Authority.”

In 1977 a gun store opened on the outskirts of Ely, Mo., that would become MidwayUSA—today a multi-million dollar e-commerce company that sells more than 125,000 unique products.

NRA's Sybil Ludington Women’s Freedom Award is named after a Revolutionary War heroine who, at the age of 16, risked her life to alert the patriots about an imminent attack from the British.

The MidwayUSA Foundation recently distributed $1.7 million in cash grants to 521 youth shooting teams across the United States.

MidwayUSA announced that Matt Fleming was appointed as the first non-family CEO in the company's history, effective immediately.

Midway USA co-founders Larry and Brenda Potterfield have donated a building that will soon serve as the Boy Scouts of America, Great Rivers Council office and activity center.

The honor is presented annually by the President of the United States to manufacturing, service and small businesses, as well as health care, education and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in the seven Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.