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National Shooting Sports Foundation : ウィキペディア英語版 | National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is a national trade association for the firearms industry that is based in Newtown, Connecticut in the United States. Formed in 1961, the organization has more than 7,000 members: firearms manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's clubs and media.〔(Firearms Industry's Trade Association | About NSSF ), NSSF.org, Retrieved December 20, 2012.〕〔(The History of The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) ), NSSF.org, Retrieved December 20, 2012.〕 The organization's website states that its mission is "To promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports". In addition to promoting gun ownership〔 and the shooting sports, the NSSF helps write safety and instruction standards.〔Rawlings, Nate. (In the Shadow of Sandy Hook, a Powerful Pro-Gun Organization Keeps Silent ), ''Time'', December 15, 2012. Retrieved, December 20, 2012.〕 The NSSF also sponsors industry's annual Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, the (SHOT Show).〔 The NSSF has advocated specific positions on gun rights, arguing against limits on high capacity magazines and the broad use of the term "assault weapon".〔 It has also supported legislation allowing concealed carry and has offered proposals to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating chemicals in ammunition.〔DePillis, Lydia.(The Second Most Powerful Gun Lobby Is in Newtown, Connecticut ), ''The New Republic'', December 14, 2012, retrieved, December 20, 2012.〕 According to the Sunlight Foundation, the NSSF has spent $1.7 million on lobbying efforts since 1998.〔(Gun Control and Gun Rights: Legislation, Policy and Influence ), Sunlight Foundation, Retrieved December 20, 2012.〕 ==Management== Steve Sanetti, the president since 2008, is a former Army captain and former president of Sturm, Ruger & Co. where he "helped direct 'the successful coordinated response to municipal lawsuits that threatened the firearms industry in the late 1990s,' according to a 2008 press release".〔Wilkie, Christina and Saki Knafo, ("National Shooting Sports Foundation, Newtown Gun Lobby, Keeps Military-Style Guns Legal" ), 12/22/2012. Retrieved 2012-12-23.〕 Doug Painter, a former NSSF president, was featured in a video released by the group in 2009.〔
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