Share The NSSF segment on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" focused on the surge in gun sales, gun owners' concerns about the Obama/Biden Administration, microstamping and bullet serialization. Another segment of the show is about attorney general-nominee Eric Holder and the concern that Wyoming Senator John Barrasso and gun owners in general have about Holder's record on Second Amendment rights. Watch both segments here.
Archive for January, 2009
How NSSF Puts Its Members And Gun Owners On The Alert
January 28th, 2009
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Share Let's talk a little about the "protect" part of NSSF's mission to "Promote, Protect and Preserve" the shooting sports–all the shooting sports. Whenever legislation is introduced at the local, state or federal level that can negatively or positively impact the sale, ownership or use of firearms, NSSF helps educate its membership about the legislation [...]
NSSF Promotes Firearm Safety Programs in Chicago Trib Ad
January 28th, 2009
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Share A full-page advertisement in today's Chicago Tribune is designed to raise awareness about major programs sponsored by members of the firearms industry and how they promote safe and responsible firearms ownership and storage to America's more than 80 million gun owners. Sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the advertisement reads, "Learn What's Being [...]
NSSF’s Lou Dobbs Interview Rescheduled
January 28th, 2009
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Share We watched but didn't see it either. NSSF's segment on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has been rescheduled to tonight on CNN at 7 pm. Bullet serialization, microstamping and the new Administration are up for discussion. See the previous blog post for more details.
NSSF On Lou Dobbs Tonight
January 27th, 2009
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Share The cameraman for "Lou Dobbs Tonight" just left our offices after interviewing NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane for the show tonight on CNN starting at 7 pm. Topics being discussed were bullet serialization, firearms microstamping and industry concerns regarding the Obama/Biden administration. We're told the segment won't be a [...]
What Chris Matthews Should Have Said On ‘Hardball’ About Firearms Issues
January 26th, 2009
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Share On "Hardball" last Thursday evening, Chris Matthews' comments about the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to the U.S. Senate, the Tiahrt Amendment and the Supreme's Court ruling in the Heller case last summer prompted this response from NSSF: Dear Mr. Matthews: A few of your comments regarding Kirsten Gillibrand’s appointment to the U.S. Senate show an [...]
SHOT Show, Task Force 20-20 and Legislative Challenges
January 23rd, 2009
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Share All are topics touched on by NSSF President Steve Sanetti in his video interview with Jim Shepherd on The Shepherd Report in Orlando last week at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show. Watch it.
Expanding Wildlife Conservation In Partnership With SCI
January 21st, 2009
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Share The National Shooting Sports Foundation has for many years made available three wildlife conservation education videos free of charge to schools nationwide, distributing an estimated 500,000 copies in over 100,000 schools. The videos are "The Un-Endangered Species" (for middle and high schools), "Wildlife For Tomorrow" (for elementary schools) and "What They Say About Hunting" [...]
POMA/NSSF Grits Gresham Award
January 16th, 2009
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Share Tom Gresham, whose Gun Talk Radio 16,000-member Truth Squad, responds to inaccuracies about firearms and firearms issues that appear in the media across America, was presented with the Professional Outdoor Media Association/National Shooting Sports Foundation Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award last evening at the SHOT Show. Two outstanding outdoor communicators, J. Wayne Fears, the inaugural winner [...]
SHOT Show News
January 15th, 2009
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Share The NSSF's SHOT Show is in full swing on this opening day. Keep up with news of the show at www.shotshow.org, see photos at SHOT Show's Flickr site, receive alerts via the NSSFComm Twitter site or, on your cell phone, text Follow NSSFComm to 40404. Reporting live on-site at the show, among others, are NRA News and ESPN Outdoors. [...]
