NSSF Bullet Points Articles

Aiming For No-Net Hunting Land Loss

Following on the heels of Illinois, Georgia and Maryland, all of which have enacted laws requiring compensatory hunting areas be opened when public lands are closed to hunting, Pennsylvania and Oregon have introduced similar bills in their state legislatures.

New York Oops

Writing in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Ken Mathison writes that state legislators, in their haste to outlaw .50 caliber rifles, would mistakenly outlaw the only kind of firearm legal to use for deer hunting in most of the state -- the rifled shotgun.

Pennsylvania Gun Safety

The firearm safety and gun lock giveaway program Project ChildSafe made a well-appreciated stop in Pittsburgh last week, distributing approximately one and a half million locks in Pennsylvania as part of the 32 million expected to be distributed nationwide by summer's end.

Seminars For Northwest Gun Dealers

Visit the National Association of Firearms Retailers Web site to find a nearby instructional opportunity for owners and employees of Federal Firearms Licenses regarding ways to spot and prevent attempts to illegally purchase firearms. You'll also find at the NAFR site tips for making your business more profitable and ways to secure your storefront against crime.

Must Reading

The next edition of SHOT Business magazine is in the mail, and if you're not signed up for your free copy, you'll miss articles on the new in-line guns and how to sell black powder, the oldest firearms technology.

Bill Lets Wildlife Agency Promote Hunting

A key tool in wildlife management, which is a responsibility imparted to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, is sport hunting. Yet, often, when initiatives are advanced by anti-hunting interests, agencies are muzzled from promoting hunting. The muzzle will come off in New Hampshire with passage of Senate Bill 105, which authorizes the director of the state's Fish and Game Department to run promotions that encourage people to hunt, fish and trap.

One Of The Best

Thirteen-year-old skeet shooter Jon Michael McGrath of Tulsa was featured on Oklahoma's KSBI-TV News this week during "Talented Kids Week." At the end of the interview, he plugs the SCTP program, which just started in his state, as a way for youths to get started in the shooting sports.

Rifle Champs Recognized

For the eighth year, the Tennessee Shooting Sports Association (TNSSA) has announced the All-State High School Rifle Teams. For 2005, a banquet to honor TNSSA’s athletes was made possible by a grant from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Youthful Champ Started In SCTP

We told you last week about the 16-year old from Georgia who just won a gold medal and the title of world champion shotgunner at the International Shooting Sports competition in Italy. Now that young man, Vincent Hancock, says his recent success can be attributed to a lot of practice and a lot of positive guidance from his father, a former competitive shooter and his Scholastic Clay Target Program coach and state director.

Shame On Them

The Washington Post, in the same week its staff re-lived the glory days of investigative reporting with revelation of the long-hidden identity of Watergate's "Deep Throat" informant, demonstrated that its editorial writers can't or won't use the Internet to look up the text of a bill before Congress. NSSF has written them and the staff at the Winston-Salem Journal to quote Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) regarding misimpressions the papers carry about his bill in the Senate.