During a recent meeting of the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities in Nuremberg, Germany, National Shooting Sports Foundation President and CEO Steve Sanetti said in a video interview with NRA News’ Ginny Simone, “We enjoy the [firearm ownership] rights that the rest of the world can only dream about.” Watch the [...]
Apprentice Hunting License Sales Top Three-Quarter Million
March 21, 2012
New research shows the huge impact that the Families Afield program is having across the country. In all, 782,604 apprentice hunting licenses have been sold with a significant portion of those being adults in 2011. The Families Afield partners, which include NSSF, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and National Wild Turkey Federation — along with the [...]
Microstamping Added to N.Y. Budget
March 17, 2012
Anti-gun legislators from New York City for the fourth year continue to seek passage of firearms microstamping legislation. While there are currently bills in both chambers, the most pressing issue is the inclusion of microstamping in the Assembly budget AB 9055C (Part B). We need every firearms retailer, gun owner and sportsman to contact members [...]
PETA Shoots Misguided Barbs at The Donald’s Hunter Sons
March 15, 2012
In September 2009 leading biologists and economists from around the world met in Windhoek, Namibia, in southwestern Africa to conduct the World Symposium on the Ecologic and Economic Benefits of Hunting. The scholarly and well-substantiated conclusions they drew on the positive results of regulated sport hunting in Africa demonstrated that hunting was not only a [...]
New Attack on Traditional Ammunition, Firearms Industry Urges Passage of “Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012″ to Protect Rights of Hunters
March 13, 2012
Following the filing of yet another petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking to ban the use of traditional ammunition (ammunition containing lead-core components) by America’s sportsmen and women, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, is urging Congress to pass the “Sportsmen’s [...]
NSSF Urges Support of Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Act in Senate
March 7, 2012
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, is encouraging all sportsmen, gun owners and firearms enthusiasts to contact members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today and urge them to support the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act (S. 1249 [...]
More Gun Owners Need to Vote
March 6, 2012
The potential for growing the gun vote in the 2012 election is considerable given the increase in new firearms owners in recent years. With more people having a stake in protecting their firearms freedoms, voters will be looking to evaluate candidates’ positions on the right to keep and bear arms and on upholding laws and regulations [...]
FOX Confirms Anti-Gun/Hunting Policy
March 5, 2012
Responding to an NSSF request that FOX Sports Media Group lift a ban on advertisements featuring firearms and ammunition from its coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events, the network responded with a form letter re-stating its anti-gun / anti-hunting policy, and confessing that its policy extends to all national and cable broadcasts. NSSF is [...]
District of Columbia Officials Favor Victimhood; Continue to Disrespect Second Amendment
March 5, 2012
With Washington, D.C. residents concerned about violent crime soaring 40 percent in the first two months of the year, one would have thought that District officials would have had a better response than, victimhood is better than self-defense. Unfortunately, they didn’t. “It is much better, in my opinion, to be scared, to be frightened, and [...]
What’s Trending? Top 5 Most Mentioned Handgun Brands Last Month
March 1, 2012
Glock, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Colt and SIG Sauer were the most mentioned handgun brands online over the past month, according to data pulled by NSSF and social-media monitoring service Radian6. The chart below shows how mentions of each brand fluctuated week to week. The chart data sourced from Radian6 tracked 55 top handgun manufacturers [...]
