NSSF Bullet Points Articles

Sportsman's Team Challenge

Results are in from the three-gun Sportsman's Team Challenge, held last week at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio. Team Smith & Wesson put on a show in its category, shooting perfect stages in pistol, rifle and combo in both the preliminary and championship rounds. Complete results are posted at www.sportsmansteamchallenge.com. NSSF is the title sponsor of the annual event.

NRA National Rifle, Pistol Matches To Begin July 10

NRA will conduct its annual National Rifle and Pistol Championships at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton, Ohio, from July 10 to August 14. The event is divided into five phases: pistol, smallbore 3-Position, smallbore prone, high power and long range. The matches are unique in that ordinary club shooters may compete on the same firing line as some of America's finest marksmen, including former Olympians. More information is available at NRA's Web site.

USA Shooting National Championships

John Bickar took home the last medal of the 2006 USA Shooting National Championships Sunday in men’s center fire pistol.

'Winchester's Hired Gun'

The Wall Street Journal last week featured a story about Michael H. Blank, a 32-year-old who quit his job as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker to help attract a buyer for the New Haven, Conn.,-based Winchester plant. Blank offers his thoughts on the potential future of the company and says he has heard from "over a dozen potential bidders."

CCRKBA To Bloomberg: 'It's The Criminals, Stupid'

Four high-profile stabbings within 24 hours in New York City prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) to issue a press release predicting Mayor Michael Bloomberg will start campaigning for knife control laws. “I fully expect the mayor to start ranting about ‘crime knives’ and how the nation needs a law to stop ‘illegal blades’ from being smuggled in from other states with lax cutlery laws,” said Alan Gottlieb, CCRKBA chairman. “I say to Bloomberg, ‘It’s not guns, or knives, it’s the criminals, stupid!’ Read CCRKBA's press release.

A Good Reason To Restrict Trace Data

A New York Times editorial today bemoans that Congress is considering making permanent a restriction on releasing federal gun trace information to the public and news media.

Committee Marks Up ATF Budget

The House Appropriations Science-State-Justice-Commerce Subcommittee on Wednesday marked up the ATF budget. The committee markup provides for a fiscal year 2007 budget of $980 million, an increase of $48 million above 2006, the same as President Bush’s budget request.

Ordinances Would Affect New Jersey Retailers

The Jersey City, N.J., City Council will vote June 28 on ordinances that would bar residents from buying more than one handgun a month and on a ban of guns with a barrel of 3 inches or less and an overall length, including the grip, of 4 1/2 inches or less, reports the Jersey Journal.

Another Anti-Gun Mayor Turned Criminal

Former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell, who in 1999 made an unsuccessful attempt at suing the firearms industry, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for tax evasion, reports the Associated Press.

San Francisco Gun Ban Shot Down

A proposition to ban handguns, which San Francisco voters approved last November, is a violation of state law, a Superior Court judge has ruled. On June 12, Judge James Warren ruled, agreeing with a National Rifle Association lawsuit, that gun regulation is best left to the state. The California Association of Firearms Retailers, supported by NSSF/Heritage Fund, was a plaintiff in the case. The city will appeal.