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Iowa pheasant survey results show popular game bird numbers up significantly
Iowa’s recently completed annual pheasant survey is great news for hunters – statewide, Iowa averaged 20.2 birds per 30-mile route, up significantly from 2019, with six of the nine survey regions averaging more than 20 pheasants per route, the most since 2007....
Are you “Safe” today?
You know... Over the last few weeks as we're all gearing up to return to school, I've noticed the word "Safe" being brandished about in nearly every facet of our culture. Here are a few that came in just this morning to my email: "...child feeling safe at school" "In...
Armed Citizen Stops Machete-Wielding Man
Bluebonnet News (Liberty, TX) A Good Samaritan pulled over to check on a machete-wielding man who was standing in the middle of SH 146 near Moss Hill. As the Good Samaritan was exiting his vehicle, the man approached him with a large knife swinging it in a...
Geissele Automatics Donates 250,000 face masks to 2021 SHOT Show
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, is pleased to announce that Geissele Automatics will be donating 250,000 face masks for distribution during the 2021 SHOT Show®. Headquartered in North Wales, Pennsylvania, Geissele Automatics is a...
+ONE and NSSF – Enter to Win a SilencerCo Omega 300
Join the movement! We challenge all of you to join the NSSF’s +One campaign and take one new person out shooting. Not only do we challenge you to join the movement, we are upping it one asking you to add a SilencerCo suppressor when you take your +One for a...
“She Goes Outdoors” Subscription Boxes
“SHE GOES OUTDOORS” SUBSCRIPTION BOXES: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has teamed up with Kansas and Nebraska to offer a quarterly outdoor subscription box to women interested in hunting and the outdoors. Boxes are $50 and include gear, educational...
Become an NRA Instructor!
Since 1871, a major objective of the National Rifle Association has been to provide education and training in the safe and proper use of firearms. Knowing how to shoot is an important requirement for NRA instructors, but you will also need to know how to teach others...
Sig Sauer Announces New Gearbox for National Shooting Sports Month
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is pleased to announce that SIG SAUER has agreed to sponsor a Gearbox Giveaway in support of 2020’s National Shooting Sports Month®. SIG SAUER is a leading manufacturer of rifles, handguns,...
Iowa DNR Hunting Regs and Chart Corrections
A printing issue in the chart on the bottom of p. 6 of the 2020-21 Iowa Hunting, Trapping and Migratory Game Bird regulations, inadvertently omitted check marks indicating which licenses and fees are required for each type of hunter and each type of license. The...
NSSF Witness to President Trump Signing Great American Outdoors Act into Law
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, was honored to be present at the White House as President Donald Trump signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act, H.R. 1957. This historic federal law is among the most meaningful...
Counties, Cities, Preemption, and Clarity…
Below is a letter sent by our Board Member, Richard Rogers to a member of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors in response to his public blog post. Please read and absorb: Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a Board Member and the volunteer lobbyist for Iowa...
#winning – NO GUNS Stickers Come Down all over Iowa!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWiMNK5OBT4&t Brandon Talsma, R, Jasper County (Iowa), Board of Supervisors, peels off the false sense of security plaguing the local courthouse after the Iowa Firearms Coalition and our allies in the NRA celebrated a great victory...