National Shooters Organization (Russia) (Right to Bear Arms)

The Russian National Shooters Organization (Russian: Русский Национальный Стрелялки организация, Russkiy Natsional'nyy Strelyalki organizatsiya), abbreviated as the RNSO, sometimes simply known as the National Shooters Organization (especially in Russia itself), is a gun-rights organization in the Russian Federation.

It is one out of three of the Federation's largest gun clubs, including the Smoothbore Federation and the Motherland Rifle Owners Coalition. It currently has the second-largest amount of members, numbering a total of 993,432 people.

The RNSO was found by Vladislav Khorvatsky, who like the Smoothbore Federation's founder Nikolay Patrushev, was a veteran of the Soviet Armed Forces and for a brief time, it's successor, the Russian Armed Forces. It was formed on July 3, 2004.

A distinction between the Smoothbore Federation is that the RNSO focuses much of its goals on self-defense, whilst also embracing hunting, recreational sport-shooting and collecting as activities that it seeks to protect. Because of this, the RNSO has gained much politicial influence, and played a major contribution in the legalizing of self-defense as a reason for puchasing a firearm in 2011 under the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev.

Its main headquarters are located in St. Petersburg, Russia but also has centers in Moscow. Like the American NRA, the Russian NSO also rates politicians on their stance on gun rights. The NSO also contributes by funding war musems in Russia. The NSO also currently plans on building their own museum of historical war memorabilia once they recieve sufficient funds.