Women Gun Owners – Purchasing, Perceptions & Participation
NSSF Report 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…
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NSSF’s Firearm Ownership & Sports Shooting Participation Survey Reveals American Firearm Use
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, released the Firearm Ownership & Sport Shooting Participation in the U.S. in 2022 report. The report highlights 24.1 percent growth of adult participation in sport shooting in America from 2009 to 2022. Surveys indicate that during that time, sport shooting participation grew from 34 million adult participants […]
The Lewiston Tragedy and the Fallout for Maine Gun Owners and Our Future Security
The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine’s Institute for Legislative Action (SAM-ILA) Executive Director David Trahan posted the report below to the group’s Facebook page. NSSF is publishing it, with permission, to ensure wide dissemination of the concerns and questions that demand answers, even as some lawmakers have introduced gun control legislation in the wake of the […]
NSSF announces release of Black American Gun Owners Report & R3 Communications Toolkit
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is pleased to announce the release of the Black American Gun Owners Report & R3 Communications Toolkit, a groundbreaking resource aimed at helping hunting and shooting sports marketers and advertisers better engage with Black American gun owners. Through a Multi-State Conservation Grant, the NSSF along with […]
ATF Firearm Trafficking Report: Licensed Retailers Aren’t the Problem
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released a report that‘s been years in the making and the stark reality is that the Biden administration’s admonishments of the firearm industry are entirely off target. The ATF released Volume Three of the National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment. The report is the first the […]
Gun Control Researchers Should Realize: It’s the Criminal, Not the Bullet’s ‘Case Fatality Rate’
Instead of advocating for prosecutors to get tough on criminals who break the law, keeping them behind bars longer rather than being released with a slap on the wrist, researchers have been keeping themselves busy in a flurry of “research” to tell us what we already know. Firearms are deadly. That is, after all, why […]
NSSF Releases 2024 Congressional Report Card
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, released its 2024 Congressional Report Card, grading sitting U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators on key legislation that is of critical importance to the firearm industry, the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and America’s hunters and recreational target shooters. Five U.S. House of Representatives were not graded due […]
The Academic-Research-Media Complex Strikes Again, Suggesting Hunters Are Poisoning Bald Eagles
Yet another study has been published that claims the use of lead-based ammunition by hunters is the root cause of rampant poisoning of America’s bald eagles. Like clockwork, the media runs with these “studies” with breathless coverage that hunters are killing bald eagles. A new Cornell University study posits bald eagles are especially susceptible to […]
Report Demonstrates Critical Importance of #GUNVOTE® to Safeguard Hunting, Recreational Shooting Traditions
A new report from a grassroots voter registration group demonstrates the tremendous importance of registering to vote and the heightened impact hunters, recreational shooting sports enthusiasts and other law-abiding American gun owners could have on federal, state and local elections if they were only to register to vote and do so on Nov. 5, 2024. […]