August 3, 2016

The following is a sampling of recent news clips in which NSSF has appeared:

Women Gun Owners

CBS Sunday Morning (Re-broadcast)
More Women are Becoming Gun Owners
"Women are the fastest growing group of gun owners in the U.S. according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Breitbart
Women Are 'Fastest-Growing Group of Gun Owners'
"Women have now solidified their place in the gun owning/gun buying sport shooting world. So much so that the NSSF's Firearms Retailer Survey Report 2016 shows "the women's market is a force in our industry, and manufacturers, retailers and shooting ranges are making changes to their products and services to satisfy women's tastes and needs'."

Government Relations

The Daily Caller (Pick-up of NSSF blog post)
On Guns, The Contrast Between Party Platforms Is Stark

Ammoland (Pick-up of NSSF blog post)
On Guns, the Contrast between Party Platforms is Stark

Townhall.com
Study: Law-Abiding Firearm Owners Really Don't Commit Gun Crimes (Which Is What We've Been Telling You All Along)
"Frankly, the best ways to effectively stress properly storage is have the National Shooting Sports Foundation, The National Rifle Association, and other pro-gun rights groups conduct public service campaigns of their own to stress the issue, but we all know that anti-gun liberals are going to protest, whine, or go indiscriminately insane if these groups start talking about gun safety."

NSSF Adjusted NICS

4-Traders (Sturm Ruger Press release on this several other financial news sites)
Strum Ruger & Co., Inc.: Reports Second Quarter Diluted earnings of $1.22 Per Share and Declares Dividend of 49 cents Per Share
"The estimated unit sell-through of the Company's products from the independent distributors to retailers increased 20% in the second quarter of 2016 from the comparable prior year period. For the same period, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System background checks (as adjusted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation) increased 15%."

Bearing Arms
World's Greatest Gun Salesman Celebrates New July Record
"World's great gun salesman, Barack Obama's presidency may be winding down, but his record-setting gun sales record just scored another milestone, with the busiest July sales in recorded history of well over 1.2 million guns according to a press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).

Guns.com
Biggest July to date for NICS background checks to date
"When adjusted — subtracting out gun permit checks and rechecks by numerous states who use NICS — the latest figure becomes 1,210,731, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry trade organization, which is an increase of 27.9 percent compared to the July 2015 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 946,528."

The Truth About Guns
Springfield Armory Daily Digest
"… according to the NSSF, there's been about a 30 percent year-over-year increase in NICS checks for July. Could it be that The People of the Gun just don't trust her (Hillary Clinton)?"

ATF/NSSF Matching Rewards Program

Indianapolis Star
Video shows suspects in Gander Mountain gun burglary
"The ATF and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, based in Newtown, Conn., are each offering $5,000 rewards for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspects."

Louisville Courier-Journal
Several arrests made in gun store burglaries
"The ATF and National Shooting Sports Foundation offered a reward of up to $5,000 each for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person and people responsible in each incident."

Louisville Courier-Journal
ATF spokesman: Two gun burglaries surprising
"The ATF is offering a reward of up to $5,000, which will potentially be matched by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person and people responsible in each incident."

Al.com
ATF offers $5,000 reward in Gadsden gun store burglary
"This reward is part of a larger national cooperative initiative between the NSSF and ATF in which NSSF matches ATF's reward in cases involving the theft of firearms from federally licensed firearms retailers."

Project Child Safe

Albany Times Union (Letter to the editor)
Kudos to Spa City Police for gun safety program
"The Saratoga Springs Police Department is one of more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies across the country that have partnered with Project ChildSafe to provide 37 million free firearms safety kits and gun locks across the country, and we are tremendously grateful for their partnership."