AWR Hawkins from Breitbart News received the journalist’s prize for the year on Saturday at the 40th annual fiery rights policies of the second amendment to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hawkins wrote more than 17,400 articles during his 15 years and more at Breitbart News and says he wakes up every day eager to report on the second amendment and to use this report to remind Americans the importance of armed citizenship.
AWR Hawkins at the 40th annual fiery arms rights conference of the second amendment Foundation in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday September 27, 2025. (Breitbart News)
The editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, Alex Marlow, commented Hawkins to receive the prize of the journalist of the year during the weekend, saying: “AWR Hawkins establishes the standard on arms rights and reports on firearms in this country. It is fast, precise, complete. The following year.
When we asked Hawkins his reflections on receiving the price, he said: “I did not see him coming.”
He continued: “When you write to earn a living, you get used to words, express thoughts, etc., without many comments. You never think of who could read an article or where they could read it. You write one and you go to the next because the story cannot be lost and the left cannot receive a stay to catch its breath or the group.
Hawkins won the journalist of the year before, which did it in 2015, 2017 and 2019. He received the “ defender of firearms ” in 2020, the “Bill of Rights” prize in 2021, and the second amendment “Award Achievement Award” in 2024.
