NSSF Bullet Points Articles

Have Gun, Will Travel -- To Jail

Patrick Burk is not among those who receive Bullet Points each Monday, which may help explain the 34-year old's arrest last week for criminal possession of a weapon atJohn F. Kennedy International Airport.

Today's Hunter Report: Reserve Your Copy Today

“Today’s Hunter,” a detailed look at hunter demographics, participation rates and expenditures produced on behalf of NSSF by Southwick Associates, Inc., uses data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s five-year National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.

Maryland's "Ballistic Fingerprinting" a Bust

Attempts to create a state-wide registry of cartridges fired from every handgun sold in Maryland have produced no results to solve any crimes and should be discontinued so the money wasted can be put toward productive crime-fighting in the future.

Anti-Hunting Groups Have Fat Wallets

Animal People magazine has published financial information for animal rights organizations, many of which actively oppose hunting.

Good Gun Initiative

Firearms dealers in Arizona are receiving a nicely thought-out package from the Good Gun Foundation, the group organized by Bryan Tucker of Davidson's.

Wolf Predation on the Rise

Wolf management, one of the hottest topics among Western hunters and ranchers, promises to get even hotter following a report showing the number of wolf-killed cattle and sheep more than doubled in 2004.

Enforcement Drops Crime in Major Cities

Some of the nation's biggest cities, with the strictest prohibition on lawful ownership of firearms, have had some of the worst crime problems for many years.

Conservation Bill Becomes Law

Congress and President Bush reaffirmed a commitment to the Wetlands Reserve Program and Conservation Reserve Program by enacting and signing into law Senate Bill 2856 on Dec. 23.

Avoiding Background Check Delays with Firearms

Purchasers of firearms who find themselves the victim of erroneous information that wrongly delays or prevents a legal firearms purchase now have a remedy to speed up future gun buys.

Protection of Lawful Commerce

Legislation is being drafted that the new Congress must enact to prevent abuse of the nation's justice system when unwarranted lawsuits are filed against law-abiding people and companies in the firearms industry.