John Sigler

John Sigler is a Past President of the NRA and a current NRA Board member serving on several Board committees including the Legal Affairs Committee and the Protest Committee. He is also the current chairman of the High Power Rifle Committee and the F-Class High Power Rifle Committee. Additionally, John serves as a Trustee of the Special Contribution Fund (Whittington Center) and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. John is a member of NRA’s Executive Council.

John is a retired Police Captain, life-long hunter, an active High Power Rifle competitor and a former member of the United States F-Class (Open) Rifle Team. John served for many years as a pro bono Second Amendment lobbyist in the Delaware General Assembly.

John holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration from Wilmington College, a Master of Arts degree in Business Management and Supervision from Central Michigan University and a Juris Doctor degree (Cum Laude) from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. He has been admitted to the bars of Delaware, Maryland and the United States Supreme Court.

John was co-founder of the National Firearms Law Seminar and co-founder of the Delaware Association of Second Amendment Lawyers which conducts the annual Delaware Firearms Law Seminar.

After several years in private practice and 25 years as in-house General Counsel for a multi-state healthcare concern, John spent the final three years of his career Of-Counsel to the Delaware law firm of Street and Ellis, where his practice was focused exclusively upon Equity Jurisprudence and Litigation in the Court of Chancery. John recently retired from active practice of law but remains an Emeritus member of the Delaware Bar.

John has been the recipient of the Taurus International Defender of Freedom Award and Delaware’s Defender of Freedom Award.