ANNOUNCING CRPA's 136th Annual Gala With Host of the National Radio Talk Show Gun Talk TOM GRESHAM GREAT NEWS! CRPA's 136th ANNUAL GALA MOVES TO SACRAMENTO! After many years of holding the February Board meeting and Annual Gala in Southern California, the CRPA Executive Committee felt it was time to give Northern California the same opportunity. We plan to alternate locations every other year, from Northern to Southern California and back again to provide more access to the key CRPA activities for all our members, statewide. In addition, we're hoping the new Sacramento venue for the CRPA annual gala will encourage more active participation and attendance from our legislators.
	ABOUT TOM GRESHAM Tom Gresham has been fighting for the Second Amendment since 1967, and has brought the message of responsible firearms ownership to millions through his writing and broadcasting though that time. A leading innovator in outdoor media, Tom Gresham has been actively engaged in all forms of print, electronic and online media for more than 40 years. A book author, magazine editor, and writer (Sports Afield, Alaska, Guns & Ammo, American Hunter); television host, director and creator; radio show host; and online video producer, Gresham has consistently opened new pathways for showing the shooting sports. His national radio talk show, "Tom Gresham's Gun Talk," is heard by millions throughout the U.S. and Canada over major radio stations, Sirius/XM satellite radio, and on the web through Apple iTunes. Through the talk show, Gresham created the Gun Talk Truth Squad–20,000 volunteers who challenge the general media whenever there is a misstatement about gun owners or a slanted story. The multiplier effect of 20,000 people actively writing letters to newspapers impacts millions of readers. Almost a decade ago, long before most people in the firearms industry had even heard of podcasting, Gresham placed his three-hour firearms show online. Over the last two years, Gun Talk Radio has been downloaded more than three million times. Twenty years ago he co-hosted "Shooting Sports America" on ESPN for the National Shooting Sports Foundation–the first shooting (not hunting) television series. Having identified through his call-in radio show that the public craves information on self-defense, he created "Personal Defense TV," the television series he hosted and directed, which was the first time this important subject had been regularly covered on television. In 2007, he created the huge video streaming web site, Gun Talk TV, featuring original videos of firearms instruction for all types of shooting, from trap to personal defense. Gun Talk TV already exceeds 500 original videos. Gresham currently hosts two television series–Guns & Gear and Gun Talk Television–on the Versus cable network, bringing shooting and technical firearms information into 78 million homes.