President's Message: 2025 NASGW Expo and Annual Meeting in The Books

We just wrapped up yet another great NASGW Expo and Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas. It went off quite well, with a few minor bumps in the road. But luckily, we’ve got a great team of talented people who work for us and we were able to navigate the challenges and put some solutions in place.

If you were with us in Texas, thank you for joining us. If you didn’t make it, we’d love to have you think about joining us next year. We’ll be opening up our exhibitor registration for the 2026 show in early November, so be on the lookout for your booth pick time. We’ll be in Phoenix next year, and we’re slightly modifying the pattern of the show as well. For many years, we’ve hosted the show with an opening dinner on Tuesday night, then had the show floor open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning.

Over time though, and with the high demands on people’s schedules, we’ve been asked repeatedly if we’d consider moving the show up a day in the week. So next year, we’re doing just that. We’ll open our Phoenix event with our awards and appreciation banquet on Monday, October 12. The Expo will then run Tuesday the 13th through Thursday the 15th at noon.

FEATURED ARTICLES

NASGW Announces Annual Appreciation and Caliber Award Winners at the 2025 Expo

The National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) kicked off the NASGW Expo on Tuesday evening, with the Annual Appreciation Dinner. Each year, the NASGW Expo brings together wholesalers and manufacturers from across the shooting sports industry to connect, collaborate, and plan for the year ahead. The event serves as a cornerstone for product launches, business meetings, and celebrating the partnerships that drive the industry forward.

A highlight of the Expo is NASGW’s Appreciation Dinner, where the association recognizes top-performing manufacturers and partners across six categories with the annual Appreciation Awards. These honors celebrate companies that exemplify excellence in two-step distribution and demonstrate exceptional service, value, and commitment to the shooting sports industry.

NASGW Launches SCOPE 2.0 at the 2025 NASGW Expo in Grapevine, TX

The National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) proudly announced the official launch of SCOPE 2.0 during the 2025 NASGW Expo and Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas. The newly enhanced SCOPE platform delivers more powerful analytics, optimized dashboards, and expanded product coverage — all designed to give shooting sports businesses deeper insight and faster, more actionable intelligence.

SCOPE 2.0 represents a major milestone in NASGW’s ongoing investment in industry data and technology. The upgrade builds upon the proven success of the SCOPE DLX (Distributor-Level Data Exchange) and SCOPE CLX (Retail Point-of-Sale Data Exchange) systems, integrating new tools, improved data feeds, and expanded reporting capabilities.

Major Digital Currency’s Terms of Use Prohibit Firearm and Ammunition Sales

So much of the energy surrounding the digital currency space has been aimed at bringing forth a new liberty. In a world where governments and some financial institutions, often at the government’s prodding, seek to curtail lawful transactions they disfavor, digital currency, which in many circumstances is transacted outside the legacy financial system, becomes attractive.

It’s why many freedom-minded folks flock to cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a digital, portable, property rights ledger that isn’t dependent on any government for its existence or acceptance. It is uncensorable, meaning anyone anywhere can transact with Bitcoin without the approval of a third party. Some call it the equivalent of digital gold.

Biden Staffer Exposes Soros Funding

A recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Blue City Chaos and Tragedy: How the Trump Administration Is Addressing the Human Cost of Soft-on-Crime Policies” exposed the lunacy that billionaire gun control proponent George Soros, along with his son, Alex, is actively funding.

One hearing witness was Gregory Jackson, Jr., the deputy director of former President Joe Biden’s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. He’s currently the head of the Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF). Judiciary committee members, and even other panelists, were ready to pick apart his organization’s dangerous statements and unmask the wealthy antigun individuals funding it.

See the Bills Impacting the Shooting Sports Industry at the State and Federal Level

2025 continues to see ups and downs in the economy at the federal and state level. There are numerous bills impacting our industry Stay up to date by checking the NASGW Bill Tracker. 

The NASGW Bill Tracker monitors pending legislation that directly affects the firearms industry, at the Federal and State level. The bills are reflective of the current legislative sessions based on jurisdiction and include defeated, passed and pending bills until the current legislative session ends. Sort bills by their current progress, category, state or region and bill year. Stay informed about current legislation in the works before it impacts your business. 

Click below to view the latest bills of interest. 

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UPCOMING EVENTS

January 20-23, 2026

SHOT Show

Las Vegas, NV

April 17-19, 2026

NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits

Houston, TX

October 13-15, 2026

NASGW Expo

Phoenix, AZ