Depending on the year and who’s doing the counting, there are about 21,000 firearms-related suicides in the US each year. That’s about half of the total number of suicides and roughly two-thirds of all firearms-related deaths. There’s plenty of evidence that if guns aren’t available, those bent on taking their own lives will choose another method. […]
As you may be aware, there’s an election going on. And as even Donald Trump recognizes, the outcome is of particular interest to the People of the Gun. Toward that end, our friends at the Nations Shooting Sports Foundation are now offering #GUNVOTE performance jerseys so you can show your support for gun rights at […]
“They made an odd pair,” our friends at Michael Bloomberg’s thetrace.org report, “the scruffy 61-year-old William Spengler and his 22-year-old neighbor, Dawn Nguyen, when they went to browse long guns at a Gander Mountain sporting goods store near Rochester, New York. In a scene later described in court papers, Spengler — a convicted felon who […]
Have iPhone will travel. Our Maximum Leader’s attending the NSSF’s Shooting Sports Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas. Fortunately, not everything that’s happening in Vegas will stay there. He collared some of the best pro shooters in the business to ask them about their gear and pry a shooting tip or two out of them. Pros like Jessie […]
Newtown, CT -[ via AmmoLand.com] – The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, issued a statement today to correct the record and refute ongoing misrepresentation of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) by Hillary Clinton . . .
If you’re a baseball fan and willing to pony up enough cheddar, you can put on your favorite team’s uni and take the field with some of your heroes once a year. If, like me, you’re a St. Louis Cardinals fan, you can play alongside legends like Bob Gibson, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter and Willie […]
Gun control advocates use false comparisons of unrelated numbers to argue for civilian disarmament. Here’s a good example, drawn from a recent article about the SHOT Show published in Britain’s far-left newspaper the Guardian. Reporters Rupert Neate and Mae Ryanin — ejected from SHOT after they’d entered without authorization — begin with Sex, guns and ammo: inside the world’s largest gun industry trade […]
NSSF press release: LAS VEGAS — The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade ShowSM (SHOT Show®) rang up its second highest attendance total ever, attracting more than 64,000 industry professionals during a four-day run. Held at the Sands Expo Center Jan. 19-22, the SHOT Show also attracted a record number of buyers, sending […]
The NSSF ran this open letter to President Obama in this morning’s Washington Post. Click ‘read more’ to embiggen it.
Here’s the NSSF’s statement on President Obama’s just-announced executive orders: We all share the goal of reducing the intentional misuse of guns and enhancing the safety of our communities. As the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) will carefully review all aspects of the executive actions that […]
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation: To help gun owners to register to vote and evaluate candidates’ positions on Second Amendment and sportsmen’s issues, NSSF provides #GUNVOTE, our voter education site, which we update regularly with news of interest. So, we are pleased to announce that we have posted our first video of the 2016 campaign […]
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence produced the video above (860 views at the time of writing). The following editorial from National Shooting Sports Foundation jefe Larry Keane [via Ammoland.com] debunks its claims: After years of evidence that the vast majority of federally licensed firearms retailers (FFLs) are law-abiding business owners that comply with […]
