NSSF Bullet Points Articles

New DIrectory Offers Research Source

A new directory released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation highlights a spectrum of research tools designed to help industry members stay informed about the latest participation numbers, demographics and industry trends.

Heritage Fund Scholarships Winners

Twenty-five students from 16 states have been awarded $1,000 scholarships through the Hunting and Shooting Sports Heritage Fund. The scholarship program assists employees of fund-member companies or family members of those employees. “It is a wonderful thing to be able to assist the young men and women who are the future of the shooting sports,” said Bettyjane Swann, scholarship director.

Private Property Rights

Free market economist professor and Rush Limbaugh's occasional substitute host, Walter Williams, has some interesting thoughts related to firearm ownership and last week's controversial Supreme Court ruling expanding rules on the seizure of private property by local government.

Kids Learn Shooting Safely

In Shreveport, Louisiana, it's the sheriff's department that teaches kids how to shoot safely and accurately, along with some other valuable life skills, at a summer camp in Caddo Parish.

OWAA Board Apologizes

The board of directors at the Outdoor Writers Association of America has apologized to its own membership for the controversy which caused so many to leave the organization and start the Professional Outdoor Media Association. OWAA has also made it easy and cost-free for dissenting members to return to the organization, according to The Outdoor Wire.

Virginia's Right To Hunt

A district judge has decided that shooting sporting clays is not protected under the state's constitutional provision to protect hunting activities, in the case of the Orion Estate's battle against zoning restrictions on the use of its hunting preserve.

DC Gun Ban Repeal

Some 50 Democrats, about a quarter of those in the House, voted 259-161 to pass a repeal of the law prohibiting ordinary persons from owning firearms in the District of Columbia. That's a wider margin of success than in the last Congress, when the same bill passed but was not taken up by the Senate. This time, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a Texan who was surprised to learn that she had been breaking the law for years, is among several pushing hard to pass the measure in the Senate.

Pennsylvania and Internet "Hunting"

The state's General Assembly unanimously passed a new law to prohibit shooting game by way of a computer-connected firearm, and now the measure moves to the Senate.

Criminals Cause Crime In California

While California's legislature considers increasingly exotic ways to confound the lawful manufacture, purchase and use of firearms, it's obvious that the solution to the crime problem some lawmakers are claiming to address is already within their control. A suspect in the shooting death recently of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy should have been behind bars instead of walking among law-abiding people, according to a news release from the Second Amendment Foundation.

Trading Places

The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation's senior vice president and director of policy, Jeff Crane, is now president of CSF. Previous president, Melinda Gable becomes chief operating officer to allow her to focus on the development of the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses, launched under her leadership last December, as well as continued focus on the strategic direction and visibility of CSF.