Fact Sheets and Backgrounders

NSSF provides brief fact sheets and background papers on key topics of interest to the firearms and ammunition industry. Fact-based research is the cornerstone of our policy positions. These documents offer the evidence for the industry’s positions on the laws and regulations that affect manufacturers, retailers, distributors, ranges, consumers and other stakeholders.

Industry Initiatives

• Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
• State-Level Firearm Industry Non-Discrimination (FIND) Legislation
• Financial Discrimination Against the Firearms Industry
• State Level Firearm Industry Protections
• The FFL Protection Act
• Operation Secure Store
• Concealed Carry Reciprocity
• Firearms Industry Nondiscrmination Act (FIND Act) 
• FixNICS: Firearms Industry Victories
• FixNICS: Looking Forward
• Hearing Protection Act
• Straw Purchases

Technology

• "3D Printing" of Firearms (pdf)
  • “Undetectable” Firearms (page)
• Bullet Serialization
• Microstamping
• RFID
• "Smart Gun" Technology

Industry Regulation

• Online Firearm Sales--There is No "Internet Loophole"
• Firearm Freedoms Do Not End During Emergencies
• "Engaged in the Business"
• USML to CCL Transition
• FFL Record Retention Reference Guide
• Fees Required For Obtaining an FFL
• Operation Choke Point
• Sweat the Details

Bans/Sales Restrictions

• Permit to Purchase
• “Undetectable” Firearms (pdf)
  • “Undetectable” Firearms (page)
• Public Accommodation Laws: What FFLs Need to Know
• Age-Based Gun Bans
• The Truth About Armor Piercing Ammunition
• "Assault Weapons"
• Infographic: Gun Control and Today's Voters
• Economic Impact of Assault Weapons Ban (AWB)
• California Handgun Roster
• "High-Capacity" Magazines
• Purchase and Sale Restrictions on Ammunition

Crime Data & Statistics

• Infographic: Gun Sales Up, Crime Rates Down
• Firearms Tracing
• Mexico and the 90 Percent Myth
• State Firearms Trafficking & Straw Purchasing Laws
• Terrorist Watchlist

Consumer Issues

• Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
• Second Amendment Privacy Act ("MCC")
• Extreme Risk Protection Orders
• Waiting Periods: Ineffective and Unconstitutional
• Opposing Federal Firearms Tax Increase
• Firearms Liability Insurance: "Poll Tax" for Firearms
• Lost and Stolen Guns
• Suppressors
• Map: Suppressor Laws by State
• Unintended Consequences of Firearms and Ammunition Taxes

Background Checks/Purchase Process

• Brady Law
• “Gun Show Loophole” Myth
• NICS & Point of Contact State Info
• Delayed NICS Transfers & the Fallacy of the “Charleston Loophole”
• Universal Background Checks Factsheet (PDF)
  • Universal Background Checks Details (page)
• Federally Licensed Firearms Retailers Overwhelmingly Oppose ‘Universal Background Checks’
• Why the Firearms Industry Opposes so-called “Universal Background Checks”

Conservation & Hunting

• 30x30 Conservation Initiative
• North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
• Pittman-Robertson Excise Tax 
• Pittman-Robertson Act Apportionment to the States
• State "Right to Hunt and Fish" Protections
• Sunday Hunting
• Impact of Sunday Hunting for MD
• Impact of Sunday Hunting for PA
• Wolves Fact Sheet

Traditional Ammunition

• Traditional Ammunition
• Bans on Traditional Ammunition: European Research and Actions 
• Effects of the Ban on Traditional Ammunition for Hunting in California on Hunting Participation and Associated Economic Measures 
• Supply & Economic Issues Associated with AB 711 
• Economic Impact of Traditional Ammunition Ban 
• Chart: Causes of Annual Bird Mortality 
• Eating Game Taken With Traditional Ammunition Does Not Pose a Health Risk

Firearms and Ammunition Industry Economic Impact Report

Firearms and Ammunition Industry: Concerns with United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)