Notice: 2023 BMRPA Membership Renewal and Outdoor Range Keys

November 11, 2022

It’s time to renew your 2023 Bismarck/Mandan Rifle and Pistol Association membership. 2023 Memberships will be available at the next club meeting on November 21, 2022, at the Eagle Club in east Bismarck. The monthly meeting starts at 7:00pm. Range certifications and new keys for outdoor range will be issued at the meeting at approximately 8:00pm. PLEASE hold onto your old key until new locks go on the gate on or about January 1, 2023. After that time old gate keys can be turned in at the indoor range (there will be a bucket in the kitchen for the old gate keys).


For new club members that joined after July 1, 2022 – don’t forget to pick up your 2023 gate key. For new members that joined after July 1, 2022, you’ll need to show your membership card in order to pick up your 2023 gate key.


If you can’t make it to the meeting, you can fill out a club membership application form (this can be found under the Membership Banner on the BMRPA website – then “download and complete our membership form”). Mail the completed application along with your check to BMRPA, PO Box 682, Bismarck, ND, 58502.


You will be mailed a membership card and your membership status will be noted on the Associations’ membership list. Please allow 1 or 2 weeks to process the membership applications.


New outdoor range keys will ONLY be issued to current members. 


As always, new members can apply using the online application on the website. Mail in the application and appropriate funds to the club’s post office box listed above.


If you are a new member, please attend the monthly club meeting. A short range certification is required before obtaining your range key. Range certifications are conducted at every monthly meeting (the 3rd Monday of the month) and each Thursday (except for holidays) at the indoor range.


If you have questions concerning your current or expired membership – contact Al Schirado at membership@bmrpa.org


Thank you.

January 18, 2026
Dear BMRPA Members, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to let all of you know that the BMRPA has lost one of its founding fathers. Marlin Fried, the namesake of the Fried Family Marksmanship Center, passed away this week. He is survived by his wife Leanne, children and grandchildren. While Marlin has not been active as a shooter with BMRPA for several years, we would still occasionally see him at the outdoor range in his red Chevy pickup, tending to the trees he had planted. In years before, many of you might have known Marlin from Gun City, the shop he started on Main Street in Bismarck. For those of you have never made it to Gun City, it was the type of unique gun store we don’t really get to see anymore. Not all of the trees at the Fried Family Marksmanship Center were planted by Marlin but a great many of them were. He embodied the spirit of old men planting trees which they will never live to enjoy the shade of. It was that spirit of providing for future generations and his enthusiasm for marksmanship and firearms ownership that inspired Marlin to donate the land that the Fried Family Marksmanship Center sits on today. The BMRPA, a club founded by competitive shooters coming together never had its own facility before Marlin’s gift. It was that gift by Marlin and the Fried Family that was one of the greatest factors turning the BMRPA into an organization that provides opportunities for competitors, youth and female shooters and provides a space to exercise our freedom. For that gift, we are thankful and appreciate how uncommon an act such as that is.  So, Marlin and the Fried Family, we thank you! We also wish to express our condolences to the Fried family for their loss during this sad time. A memorial service will be held at 11:30AM on Monday, January 19, 2026, and visitation will be held Sunday, January 18, at 5:30PM at Bismarck Funeral Home, and 7pm prayer service. https://www.bismarckfuneralhome.com/obituaries/marlin-fried Tom Headrick President, BMRPA
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