By Mark Olivia Building state-run public shooting ranges is easier now than ever thanks to changes in the law for how states can apply wildlife conservation funds generated by firearm and ammunition manufacturers through excise…
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Firearms and ammunition manufacturers have topped $17 billion in excise tax contributions to the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund since its inception in 1937, the NSSF reported. When adjusted for inflation, the total is more than…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that the agency was distributing $1.3 billion to the states to fund wildlife conservation, public land access, recreational shooting range construction and improvement and hunter education. That’s a figure…
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation . . . NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, marked a milestone achievement when firearm and ammunition manufacturers topped $15 billion in contributions to the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund…
By Mark Oliva There was a time in America when universities taught young adults how to think, not what to think. Take an idea floated by two university professors who want to upend the funding…
By John Casellas Connors, Texas A&M University and Christopher Rea, The Ohio State University Gun and ammunition sales in the U.S. have skyrocketed in recent years. And although it may come as a surprise, this…
By Trevor W. Santos Since 1937, America’s firearm industry has made conservation efforts possible around this great nation. Through the NSSF and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Partner with a Payer program, I…
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation . . . NSSF, the trade association for the firearm industry, previously announced an initiative designed to strengthen ties between all excise tax-paying manufacturers—firearms and ammunition, archery equipment, marine…
There’s something the 10 million or so first-time gun buyers that have joined the ranks of America’s firearms owners in the last 18 months probably don’t know. Every gun and round of ammunition they buy…
By Larry Keane State wildlife agencies are facing something many haven’t seen for years, even decades. Their seeing flush budgets. Excise taxes paid by firearm and ammunition makers to the Wildlife Restoration Fund, managed by…