NAGR’s Taylor Rhodes on Lobbying, Litigation, and 2026 ~ VIDEO

LOVELAND, Colo. — (AmmoLand.com) — I had a chat with Taylor Rhodes, the communications director, from the Nationwide Affiliation for Gun Rights. This interview was a part of a bit I did for “Hid Carry Journal.”

Rhodes and I mentioned the Affiliation in addition to its sister group, the Nationwide Basis for Gun Rights. NAGR is a 501(c)(4) foyer and advocacy group and the Basis is a 501(c)(3) litigation group.

Our dialog was in mid-2025, so a number of the materials is dated. Nevertheless, if you wish to watch it in full, you may test it out HERE or within the embed above. There’s lots to absorb and find out about NAGR.

Nationwide Affiliation for Gun Rights and Nationwide Basis for Gun Rights

Nationwide Affiliation for Gun Rights is a 501(c)(4) foyer group and was based in 2000 by Dudley Brown. NAGR was shaped as a nationwide group that got here from Brown’s Rocky Mountain Gun Homeowners, a state-level Colorado group. The Nationwide Basis for Gun Rights is one among a number of sister organizations and is a 501(c)(3) used for litigation.

“The Nationwide Affiliation was based in direct response to there not likely being a gaggle that was taking a tough, no compromise stance in state legislatures, totally on the constitutional carry situation,” Rhodes stated. “We’re proud now to have 29 constitutional carry states across the nation, most of which NAGR performed a really massive function in if, if it wasn’t the explanation that it’s regulation at this time and most of these states.”

Rhodes stated the vast majority of the funds NAGR receives goes immediately into lobbying. The group is working in each D.C. in addition to on the state degree. “Now we have a D.C. workplace, properly, it’s truly in Alexandria, the place we foyer on Capitol Hill,” he defined.

The Basis was shaped someday over the past decade. However, Rhodes stated they didn’t actually blossom into what they’re at this time till 2022. The inspiration “didn’t develop to what it’s at this time till after the Bruen resolution just a few years in the past,” Rhodes famous.

Lawsuits

There are a selection of lawsuits that the Basis has been concerned in currently. Rhodes stated that the decision to deliver the battle to the judicial department got here from their membership.

“Finally we’re solely as highly effective as our members, proper? And our members had been nearly demanding that we begin submitting lawsuits,” Rhodes stated. “That’s what we did. And primarily simply labored up the Basis. We now have Hannah Hill that’s doing a implausible job of operating that Basis and actually protecting us on observe in our authorized work.”

A number of the authorized battles the Basis has gotten concerned in pertain to so-called “assault weapons” bans, journal bans, ready intervals, and 18-to-20-year-old bans.

“We’ve been concerned with instances equivalent to Lawrence DeMonico, Uncommon Breed set off case,” Rhodes stated. “Now we have actually taken on a complete nother degree of activism via the courts and attempting to take again what the left has stolen from us.”

The White Home

All the highest 5 nationwide Second Modification advocacy teams and/or their sister organizations have been in communications with the Trump Administration. Whether or not teams are interacting immediately with White Home contacts, the Division of Justice, and/or another person within the administration, they’ve all indicated that there’s open traces of communications.

NAGR has communicated with the present administration. They really have a particular and direct hyperlink to it — in addition to the DOJ.

“I can’t say all that a lot about it, however I’ll say now we have been in touch with the White Home,” Rhodes teased. “Really, our former chairman, Dave Warrington, is now the chief White Home counsel, which is large.

“Additionally, Harmeet Dhillon, who ran the regulation agency that we had been operating a lot of our lawsuits via —  the Uncommon Breed Set off one being, being the flagship — is definitely assistant legal professional basic now. We do have pathways into the White Home and we’re hoping that this presidential time period seems to be one.”

The Plan for 2026

“Now we have a few issues which might be on the highest of our agenda,” Rhodes stated. “Really, when the presidency modified from Democrat to Republican, we launched our program for freedom, which we uniquely coined Make America Armed Once more. This can be a multi-point plan to take again the rights that the Obama Administration and even previous Republican administrations have pushed on us.”

A number of the initiatives that NAGR and the Basis are pushing for embody:

H.R.645 – Nationwide Constitutional Carry Act
H.R.850 – SHUSH Act
H.R.2395 – SHORT Act
Abolishing the ATF — or a minimum of halving their funds
Persevering with to overturn any Biden Period government orders

As for any litigation that the Basis could be pursuing sooner or later, Rhodes was mum. “As of proper now, I’m not at liberty to say,” he stated. “We’re all the time chatting with our attorneys about what is sensible. We all the time calculate the danger of shedding.”

And Extra…

Rhodes and I talked additional about different initiatives the organizations are concerned. We additionally mentioned teams they’ve been working with.

“We’re all the time open to working with teams so long as we’re not going to compromise on behalf of our members,” Rhodes defined. “And that’s one thing that we all the time be certain of earlier than we get in mattress with anybody.”

The Nationwide Affiliation for Gun Rights — together with the opposite nationwide teams — is working on the tip of the spear to safeguard the Second Modification. Study extra about what they’re as much as by tuning into our interview in full right here.

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