The Puget Sound chapter of the SRA is an organization operating across Washington State focused on firearms education among comrades. We have some excellent instructors who run highly-inclusive classes for our members at many different levels of firearms familiarity, in several locations all over Washington.

PSSRA is committed to making our firearms education accessible to all members.

We know that training sometimes involves barriers, whether disability-related, financial, or logistical, and we work with members to reduce or remove them.

The Puget Sound SRA has established guidelines for prospective members in line with the qualifications laid out by national SRA in Article three, section three of their bylaws. In addition, PSSRA has established qualifications necessary for basic functioning in line with our mission as a firearms education group (i.e., members must be legally allowed to possess firearms).

We are a leftist, community-focused firearms education organization. These rules exist to minimize legal risk, uphold Discord’s Terms of Service (to prevent possible shutdown), and maintain a safe, respectful environment for members. Our risk increases the more we diverge from focusing on our goal of providing high quality, respectful firearms training, and we appreciate your help in minimizing that risk.

“As the Socialist Rifle Association, do you only offer training on rifles?”

No! In fact, while we do offer occasional practical rifle training classes at a few different experience levels, we primarily focus on practical pistol training for several reasons.

Our chapter’s foremost goal with new members is to immediately provide an opportunity to “touch grass” and make it out to an in-person introductory class as soon as as they make it into the org. To that end, new members’ experience in the chapter is heavily directed towards that goal, meeting other members in person, taking a class, and getting some live-fire experience with us.

While we are working through an intake backlog due to current events — an unprecedented number of emails since Nov 2024 and continuing through Feb 2025 — we are instituting a queue for bringing new folks into the intake/vetting process so that you’re not waiting around for vetting forever.

If this article is still visible, the queue is still in effect.

If you’d like, you can go ahead and join our parent organization at this link, but please know that we will not be able to provide you vetting into the local chapter for some time; you will still be part of the same queue.

PSSRA does not provide equipment, range, or retailer recommendations to unvetted members. We are happy, however, to point to other creators and resources whose recommendations we generally agree with as far as training and gear goes.

PSSRA’s primary communication platform is Discord.

We often get asked, Why Discord? Why not something more secure? The simple answer is: it’s secure enough for us.

After you make it through the backlog and join as a local comrade or national member, we will invite you to a Vetting Discord server. If you are clicking the invite link on a computer, and if you have an existing Discord account that you’d like to use, you will need to log in to Discord on your browser before accepting the invitation.