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David A. Keene is the current national president of the National Rifle Association of America and currently serves as chairman of the Legislative Policy Committee and vice chairman of the Meeting Site Selection Committee. He is also a member of the President’s Committee on Advancement. Keene served as Chairman of the American Conservative Union, a volunteer position, from December 1984 to February 2011. ACU is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, and during his tenure their main conference, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), grew from a few hundred to more than 11,000 attendees. ACU rates Members of Congress, helps maintain fair military voting, and lobbies Congress on a host of conservative issues. Keene is an attorney, columnist, political activist and lobbyist who has written, spoken and lobbied on behalf of hunters, shooters and firearms owners for decades. He has worked in the White House and Congress and has been involved in nearly every congressional battle over gun rights since the early 1970s. |