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Governor announces NRA conventions will return to Indianapolis in 2029 and 2031
Summary
The governor said the National Rifle Association will bring its annual meeting and exhibition back to Indianapolis in April 2029 and again in 2031, projecting millions in economic impact and citing new convention-center and hotel development that will increase local capacity.
The governor announced that the National Rifle Association will bring its annual meeting and exhibition back to Indianapolis in April 2029 and again in 2031, saying the 2029 event is projected to generate $26.4 million in economic impact and bring more than 70,000 attendees to the city.
The announcement followed past NRA visits to Indianapolis in 2014, 2019 and 2023 and, according to the governor, builds on nearly a year of work by state and city partners. The governor thanked Visit Indy and local leaders for their role securing the events and highlighted an expanded Indiana Convention Center, more than 1,000 new downtown hotel rooms including Signia and the Ritz-Carlton, and roughly $3 billion in tourism-related development now near completion.
"Proud to share that after more than a year of work positioning our state and capital city to get here the National Rifle Association will bring its annual meeting and exhibition back to our city Indianapolis," the governor said. He described the announcement as the latest in a series of large events coming to the city.
Doug Hamlin, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, thanked the governor and praised Indianapolis as a host city. "We love Indy," Hamlin said, adding that the NRA expects a wide range of attendees and that the organization values passing recreational shooting traditions to the next generation. "When you see the demographics of the people that are in attendance, it's men, women, children, families, grandparents. It's more about the culture an American culture of recreational shooting sports."
Hamlin named several NRA board members present at the event—Kyle Huffer, Craig Haggard, Alex Carol and Charlie Hill Tunin—and said Indiana is well represented on the association's board of directors. He said the organization is "looking forward to the spring of April 2029" and that the 2029 show is expected to draw well over 75,000 people.
The comments were promotional in tone and framed around anticipated economic benefits and growth in local hospitality capacity; no formal votes or official actions were recorded during the remarks.
