Tell Congress to Oppose Export Control Amendments to the Defense Authorization Bill (HR 4310) Call Your Representative at (202) 224-3121 Due to outdated U.S. export regulations, the firearms and ammunition industry and many other U.S. industries that export products are at a severe disadvantage when competing with foreign companies. Now some in Congress are going [...]
Update on Bank of America Allegations
May 10, 2012
In response to recent allegations that Bank of America has an anti-firearms industry policy, NSSF investigated the allegation, including contacting the Bank of America to insist on a response from them to the allegations that it has a corporate policy of not doing business with members of the firearms industry. As we noted in our [...]
Urge Support for Spending Bill with Pro-Industry, Pro-2nd Amendment Riders
May 8, 2012
Today the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Spending Bill that contains ATF appropriations that include many pro-industry, pro-Second Amendment riders such as the so-called “Tiahrt Amendment” that protects sensitive law enforcement gun trace data from public disclosure. The ATF rider also includes the “Rehberg Amendment” [...]
Critic’s Misguided View of Shooting Ranges Bill; NSSF Provides the Facts
April 30, 2012
In response to a recent op-ed in the Colorado Springs Gazette (“Government should not be in the shooting range business”), NSSF would like to help clarify what the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act (S. 1249/H.R. 3065) will accomplish. First, however, we must correct some statements the writer has made. The writer suggests that [...]
The Shrinking ‘Vast Majority’: NSSF Responds to ATF Mexican Trace Report
April 27, 2012
ATF yesterday released a report on firearms submitted by the government of Mexico for tracing since 2007. One screaming headline referred to the “Vast Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals.” If you have been following the issue of Mexican gun traces on this blog, you will realize the truth [...]
NSSF Responds to Op-Ed on Mexico
April 26, 2012
Andres Oppenheimer, as guest columnist and author of “U.S. gun lobby could help stop Mexico’s violence,” in the April 20 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in his opening sentences and paragraphs equates the NRA and other U.S. gun owners’ rights organizations with two of the most infamous drug cartels. In so doing, Oppenheimer has [...]
Firearms Industry Helps Lead Economic Recovery; New Study Shows Growth in Jobs, Taxes Paid and Sales
April 19, 2012
NSSF today released a newly commissioned report detailing double-digit gains in jobs and other data showing the industry has been a leader in the nation’s economic recovery. The report can be viewed at http://nssf.org/impact. Firearms industry members on Capitol Hill were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase in jobs between 2008 [...]
Sen. Tester, Rep. Miller Honored as NSSF’s 2011 Legislators of the Year
April 18, 2012
NSSF honored Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) as NSSF’s 2011 Legislators of the Year at an NSSF Political Action Committee (PAC) reception this evening in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the firearms industry’s annual Congressional Fly-In. In presenting the awards, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane [...]
House Passes ‘Sportsmen’s Heritage Act’
April 17, 2012
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, hailed today’s passage of the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (H.R. 4089). The bill passed the House with a 274-146 vote. Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), the bill combines four legislative priorities that will expand recreational [...]
Urge Representatives to Support “Sportsmen’s Heritage Act”
April 13, 2012
NSSF is encouraging all hunters, shooters and gun owners to contact their U.S. Representative today and urge them to support the “Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012″ (H.R. 4089). This vital pro-sportsmen legislation is expected to be voted on by the House of Representatives as soon as Tuesday, so time is of the essence. The bill [...]
