Get a load of this - NSSF Summit

[ysued]

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I know this post is pushing it, but this affects us all and has to be brought to light!!

What does NSSF Stand for??

National Shooting Sports Foundation???

or

National Shotgun Sports Foundation???

This report is BS and doing a Zumbo on the Handgun shooters in the USA!!

With the Heller decision coming out this week, we don't need this kind of crap coming from the NSSF!!!

http://www.nssf.org/share/PDF/Future_of_Hu...orts_Report.pdf

National Shooting Sports Foundation???

1) This report was put together by people who work closely with the hunting side and state agencies. They are not in sync with the handgun and black rifle side of the industry.

2) This approach plays into, and gives credit to, the anti-gun foes who demonize handguns and characterize them as inherently more dangerous than other guns.

3) This approach is not a communication tactic, it's a lack of communications tactic and it allows our enemies to define us while we run and hide.

PAGE 235

Public acceptance of rifles and shotguns is greater than

acceptance of handguns, the latter having some negative

connotations for some individuals in American society.

Action Item 163. Efforts to promote acceptance of shooting

sports should focus on rifles and shotguns.

Action Item 164. Avoid communications imagery that shows

people shooting at human silhouettes. Be aware that there is

much resistance among the general public to target shooting

at human silhouettes, and images showing this will not be as

well-received as alternative images (e.g., a person shooting

at a standard bull’s eye target with a rifle).

PAGE 227

The positive aspects of hunting and shooting are not widely

known, and the media tends to highlight negative aspects.

Action Item 116. Promote the positive images of hunting and

shooting. Encourage dissemination of information about the

good aspects of hunting and shooting (within the context of

other findings on messages that are well received and those

that are not) to counteract bad publicity—and the resulting

damage to the hunting and shooting culture.

Action Item 117. Encourage the mass media outlets to report on

positive aspects of hunting and shooting. Phase III

quantified that the media is far more likely to focus on

negative aspects of hunting and shooting. Not surprisingly,

the media focuses on bad publicity simply because “bad” is

considered more newsworthy. Press releases highlighting,

for instance, a conservation project that hunters have done or

the awarding of a scholarship related to shooting would

provide positive images in the mass media.

Action Item 118. Closely work with and interact with media

representatives by inviting them to events and courses to

assist them in understanding the positive aspects of hunting

and shooting.

PAGE 224-225

Fear of firearms is an important disincentive to participation

in hunting and the shooting sports; this fear cannot be

downplayed by professionals when developing recruitment

programs. While many Americans show an interest in

wanting to shoot, the fear of firearms prevents them from

trying the activity, and research shows that, once they try

shooting, their fear is often overcome. Just as the bicycle

industry would not flourish without the important use of

training wheels to alleviate fear and facilitate proficiency,

neither will sport shooting flourish without its own “training

wheels” in the form of controlled environments and

non-lethal beginner firearms.

Action Item 106. Consider that the use of non-lethal firearms

will be effective in getting non-shooters to shoot, allowing

them to become more comfortable around firearms. After

they are comfortable with non-lethal firearms, they will

“graduate” to lethal firearms. This is the shooting sports’

parallel to the training wheels on bicycles. Fewer bicycles

would be sold to children if the bicycle industry did not

manufacture and sell training wheels.

Edited June 22, 2008 by ysued

[AikiDale]

I can't reply without getting this closed....

Thanks for posting this Yamil.