Moments before this alert was to go out (1/13/12), a federal district court in Washington, D.C. issued a ruling upholding an Obama administration policy that requires federally licensed firearms retailers in states bordering Mexico to report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles. 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a proposed rule to eliminate the 'special rule' enacted in 2005 that allowed the purchase, sale, breeding and other management activities for U.S. captive herds of the Scimitar-Horned Oryx, Addax and Dama Gazelle.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- is encouraging all hunters, shooters and gun owners to contact their United States Senators and Representatives to urge them to become an original co-sponsor of the Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Sports Protection Act, legislation that will clarify that Congress has not given the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to regulate ammunition and its components under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, calls the 3.6 percent rise in paid hunting license holders for 2009 one of the most encouraging signs for hunting in recent years.

For the second year in a row, a record-low 44 percent of Americans say laws governing the sale of firearms should be made more strict, while 42 percent say gun laws should be kept as they are now, according to Gallup's annual Crime Poll, conducted Oct. 7-10 this year.

From the perspective of the Texas Wildlife Association and its members, the "Death Tax" is one of the largest causes of habitat fragmentation in the nation.  The tax not only threatens the agriculture industry, it threatens the very landscape that provides air, water, and home to our treasured wildlife.

With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) - a leading anti-hunting organization - to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- urges you to contact the Environmental Protection Agency to oppose a petition filed August 3 by the extremist Center for Biological Diversity to ban traditional ammunition. Your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake.

A special GunBroker.com "Heritage Partnership" auction generated $11,000 to benefit the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance (YSSA). The auction was hosted on the Hunting Heritage Trust's special "Treasures & Traditions" auction on GunBroker.com throughout the month of March 2010.

The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance (YSSA) recently announced that O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. has continued their support of YSSA's Donated Firearms Program with a generous donation of sparingly used Mossberg Silver Reserve shotguns.