The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute are appealing a court decision earlier this year that favored California’s “micro-stamping” requirement.
As light heavyweight boxing champion Sergey Kovalev prepares to defend his title against Nadjib Mohammedi on HBO on July 25, the pay channel demands that he remove the words “Tulammo USA” from his boxing trunks.
For example, “over 1.7 million new permits were issued [in 2014],” which represents a “15.4 percent increase” over the number issued the year before. The CPRC report also shows that concealed carry permits are no longer just a guy thing, either. Rather, since 2007 “permits for women have increased by 270 percent” while permits for men have increased “by 156 percent.”
In 2009 the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship featured 30 competitors. In 2015 the same championship featured 5,134 and “more than 20,000 spectators.”
Women have emerged as one of the fastest-growing demographics of new gun buyers and concealed carry permit holders in the country, and in the process, they have become a driving force in the shift in American attitudes from pro-gun control to pro-gun rights.
On January 25 Slate magazine published an article revolving around the NRA’s warning that we live in a dangerous world best answered by owning a gun. They argue that the call to gun ownership for self-defense is false, that it is part of a great myth which has clouded the minds of Americans and resulted in a “misguided” expansion of gun ownership, and therefore, expanded crime.
On January 22, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts seized upon the tragic news of a toddler shooting his 9-month-old brother to argue that toddlers shooting children is the “new normal.”
Over 12.5 miles of aisles full of new handguns, rifles, and shotguns, as well as new firearm optics, laser sights, holsters, ammunition, and other firearm accessories from a total of 1,681 exhibitors will be on display at the 2015 National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) SHOT Show, which takes place in Las Vegas January 20-23.
