Pittsburgh ? Before she met her husband, Linda Davis had never even fired a gun. Eventually, though, Gary Davis told her she would have to join the National Rifle Association if they were to get married.

Five years later, Linda Davis has gotten bullets from her husband for Valentine’s Day, and the couple even schedules one of their yearly vacations around the NRA convention.

This weekend, they are among thousands of target shooters, hunters, collectors and Second Amendment activists gathered for the group’s 133rd annual convention here.

The NRA expected up to 60,000 people at the weekend-long convention, dubbed “Freedom’s Steel,” featuring seminars on whether to hunt in Africa, legislative agendas, methods of carrying a concealed weapon and a game-call challenge.

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at today’s banquet and rocker Ted Nugent was scheduled for a session Sunday on “God, Guns & Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

The convention also featured the debut of NRANews.com, an Internet talk show offering information on candidates and gun rights.