“Most stages at any 3-gun in the country are over in less than two minutes, some in less than 40 seconds,” Gibson said. “We have an eight-minute-per time limit on each stage and fun and crazy stages. Shooting from the back of a moving pickup, shooting 32 birds launched from a trap house, shooting your pistol and shotgun while you are driving a golf cart, shooting your pistol while you are sliding down a 285-foot zip line, shooting your rifle from a 20-foot tower, shooting two match-furnished full-auto guns on a stage (in addition to the three guns that you brought with you), shooting bonus shots at 700 yards, honest to goodness home cooked meals included in the match fee, a surprise stage that includes a 200-yard run, shooting three pepper poppers in a row with a shotgun, each of which launches two clay birds 30-feet in the air (so you have six birds in the air all at once), shooting 75-100 slugs, out to 100 yards have all been features of previous matches. Everyone will shoot at least 900 rounds at this match, assuming that they hit every target with the first shot.”

This important legislation, sponsored by Representative Judy Boyle (R-Midvale), would amend Idaho’s existing law to limit public access to Fish and Game records of issued tags.  HB 531aa would also prohibit future harassment, intimidation and threats relating to the lawful taking and control of fish and wildlife. As the law currently stands, any person or organization can contact Fish and Game and request the names of all people who have been issued tags and what type of hunting tag they have been issued.

During the 2009 hunting season, the names of everyone who had a wolf tag were printed in a local paper and subsequently broadcasted nationally.  Although these hunters followed the law and direction by Idaho’s wildlife experts, they were incessantly harassed by anti-hunting groups and radical animal “rights” extremists.   It is the intention of Representative Boyle to prevent such future harassment and the NRA supports her effort to protect hunters’ rights to privacy and protection.

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.22 Tactical Precision Rifle Class

Saturday, April  24^th, 2010

Sign up at noon

Location: Parma Rod and Gun Club- Parma, Idaho.   http://www.parmarng.org/

Directions: http://www.parmarng.org/MapToRange/MapToRange.html

This class is for shooters who are interested in getting started in .22 Tactical Precision Rifle Matches and shooters who want to increase their knowledge of Tactical Precision Rifle.  Both experienced and beginning shooters will take away useful info from this class. The class will consist of a several hours of classroom and several hours of field practice and application on the firing line. The class will last until somewhere between 2 and 5pm, depending.

Topics covered will be the following as how they relate to .22 Tactical Precision shooting

1.    Safety

2.    Rifles

3.    Optics

4.    Ammo

5.    Misc. Equipment

6.    Angles used in shooting, MOA, MIL

7.    External ballistics and sight adjustments

8.    Marksmanship, including position shooting

9.    Spotting

Class Requirements

A.    Eye and ear protection

B.    .22 rimfire rifle(if shooter does not have a rifle yet, they will still learn a ton in the classroom.  NO .17 rimfire or .22WMR)

C.   Bipod or rest

D.   100 rounds(min) of ammo

E.    Suitable range wear

F.    Good attitude

G.   Shooters mat or ground gear or knee/elbow pads, tarp

H.   Pad and pen/pencil

I.      Drinks/lunch/snacks

RSVP so I can have enough classroom materials.

steve fransen: parma22lr-at-yahoo.com

On February 22, a new law on guns in national parks takes effect. The law repeals a National Park Service rule that has long prohibited Americans from lawfully possessing firearms in national parks for self-defense.

The new law, passed last spring by an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, will allow people to possess, carry and transport firearms in national parks, in accordance with state law.

However, many details remain to be worked out. Reports indicate that National Park Service officials are debating issues such as the definition of “federal facilities,” where firearms will remain prohibited under a different federal law.

NPS officials are expected to issue further information as February 22 approaches, and some parks have already published information on their new policies. Because state laws vary greatly, before you visit a national park, you should check the park’s website or call the park headquarters for more information. NRA will also provide updates as they become available.

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The Parma Rod and Gun Club has four .22 Tactical Precision Rifle Matches scheduled in 2010.  The dates are:

• Saturday, May 8^th, 2010
• Saturday, June 19^th, 2010
• Saturday, July 17^th, 2010
• Saturday, August 21^st, 2010

Sign up at 8:30am, walk-through at 8:45am, shooing starts at 9am.

Location: Parma Rod and Gun Club – Parma, Idaho   http://www.parmarng.org/

Directions: http://www.parmarng.org/MapToRange/MapToRange.html

.22 Tactical Precision Rifle Matches combine several different types of rifle shooting into a fun and exciting new sport.

.22 Tactical Precision Rifle combines:

• tactical scenarios
• precision fire
• practical field shooting
• action shooting
• long range/distance shooting

From its start, these rifle matches have been primarily focused on being a fun and affordable shooting sport.  Courses of fire are designed to be shot with inexpensive factory rifles and reasonably priced scopes.

.22 Tactical Precision Rifle Matches are adaptations of centerfire Tactical/Precision match formats to rimfire rifles.  The reason for this is rimfire is much less expensive to shoot than centerfire.  This allows shooters to train, practice and shoot more.

These matches are multi-stage, multi-distance events that shooters will find challenging and fun.  The stages are shot at shorter, caliber-appropriate distances.  Target sizes and distances are reduced to scale specifically for .22 rimfire rifles.

The targets are reactive steel and are at distances that vary from 25 to 250 yards.  Steel targets provide instant shooter feedback and make the matches flow better because the firing line is not shut down from time to time to score paper targets.

Come on out and give it a try!  .22 Tactical Precision Rifle Matches are challenging, very affordable, and will test and develop your rifle marksmanship skills.  It is fun stuff and you’ll meet some new fellow shooters.

Equipment

.22 rimfire rifle – bolt action, semi auto, pump, etc.

Optics are highly, highly recommended and really preferred.

• If one wants to shoot with iron sights (like an Appleseed rifle), go for it. Just realize the game is built around scoped rifles.
• You can see all the targets with the naked eye from the firing line so a peep rear and post front sight will work if you have enough adjustment to get to 250 yards.
• A Mil-Dot scope is recommended but not necessary.

A bipod can be useful, but one can shoot off a ruck or backpack if preferred.

Spotting optics – binoculars or a spotting scope are helpful, but one can use their rifle scope for spotting (a cheap $20 pair of binoculars will work great too).

Transport gear – rucksack, duffle, backpack, or shooters box to transport stuff from firing position to position.

Ground gear – shooting mat, blue tarp, knee and elbow pads, old hunk of carpet, or nothing, shooters choice.

Dope sheet-you should have ‘come-up’ data out to 300 yards.

Misc. gear as needed.

Rules

Safety first!  The 4 rules apply so engage your brain.

The 1^st Law of Gun Safety – The Gun Is Always Loaded!

The 2^nd Law of Gun Safety – Never Point A Gun At Something You’re Not Prepared To Destroy!

The 3^rd Law of Gun Safety – Always Be Sure Of Your Target And What Is Behind It!

The 4^th Law of Gun Safety – Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights Are On The Target!

Unsafe actions by you will mean a disqualification from the match.

A hit is defined as making the steel target move (ricochet, dirt splash or chain strikes do not count).  Any paper is scored as defined by COF description.

Only .22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle rimfire ammo is allowed,

.17 rimfire or .22WMR is not allowed.

Divisions are: Semi-Auto Rifle, All Other Action Types, and Juniors.

Match details

12 stages, approx 120 scored rounds

Bring 200 rounds

Entry fee = $10

Match should last until around noon

Bring your own drinks and snacks

The match will be shot at the Small Bore Range which has several gravel firing positions in addition to a concrete firing line so bring a shooting mat or tarp if you don’t want to roll around in the gravel.

Contact questions: Steve Fransen, Email Parma22LR@yahoo.com

In the past two years IDSSA has had remarkable success.  Idaho now has some of the strongest range protection laws in the country. Instructors, match directors, and match officials no longer have to fear nuisance lawsuits that threaten to put them out of business. Firearms laws are now required to be uniform throughout the state. With your help we will add to these successes in 2010.

We are currently drafting bills which (among other things) will remove some location prohibitions on concealed carry and offer an opportunity of rehabilitation for certain people under Federal firearms restrictions. When the legislative session in Boise starts we will monitor the legislative proposals and report to you on bills that have the potential to affect firearm ownership and use or shooting ranges whether obviously firearms related or not. Finally, as part of our core mission, we continue to work with multiple government agencies and elected officials to improve funding for shooting ranges and locate land for new ranges.

We could not have accomplished anything without you, our members. Your continuing support is what makes our efforts possible going forward. If you or your club has not renewed your supporting membership yet please take this opportunity to do so. No one takes a salary and all membership funds go directly to supporting our mission. Membership support is our sole funding source.

As always: thank you again for your support and if you or any of your club members has any questions or concerns about issues that they would like to see addressed please feel free to give me a call.

The Idaho Sport Shooters Alliance is organized under IRS Code section 501(c)(4). Contributions are not tax-deductible because of our lobbying activities.

Best wishes in 2010,

Mike

Michael C. “Mike” Brown

Executive Director/General Counsel

Idaho Sport Shooters Alliance

208 835-3737

208 835-3744 Fax

www.idahossa.org

P.S. I have included a  membership application if you need to update your information.

IDAHOSSA Application Link!

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads a group called “Mayors Against Illegal Guns.” The name is deceptive – Bloomberg is mostly interested in further restricting legal gun ownership.

His most recent tirade comes in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting. In an op-ed­ in the Washington Post, Bloomberg complains that the FBI is not allowed to keep a registration list of gun owners.

Federal law prohibits the government from maintaining or compiling a registration list of gun owners. President Clinton ignored the law and kept files of lawful gun purchasers (those who went through an FBI background check before they were allowed to purchase a firearm) for at least six months.

Congress rightly stepped in and required that the records of lawful transactions be destroyed within 24 hours. It is bad enough that American gun owners are presumed to be criminals until they can prove otherwise to the government, but to add to that unconstitutional requirement the ability of the government to maintain gun owner registration lists would only lead to more intrusive laws, greater restrictions on gun rights and more civilian disarmament.

Gun control laws do not reduce violent crime rates (in fact the opposite is more likely the case). But what is the government’s typical response when its gun control laws prove ineffective? The common refrain is that law was too weak, or too small, or didn’t go far enough. The solution, therefore, is to enact yet more laws.

That is exactly the position of Mayor Bloomberg. Sixteen years ago, the gun control crowd pushed the so-called Brady law, wherein all firearms transactions conducted through federally licensed dealers would be regulated. But, of course, that was not enough for them. Now anti-gunners want to maintain lists of gun owners and expand background checks to private gun sales.

Bloomberg also believes that people who are suspected of crimes should be prohibited from purchasing firearms. Anti-Second Amendment advocates like Bloomberg want to deny gun purchases persons listed on the governments so-called terror watch list – a list that reportedly contains over 400,000 names.

Why is due process so offensive to the gun control crowd? If we can deny civil liberties to citizens on the basis of being suspected criminals, we may as well run the Constitution through a shredder.

It is a shame that Bloomberg did not take up the cause of legal gun ownership at Fort Hood. The military’s anti-self defense policy is one reason that a man armed with a couple of handguns was able to murder 14 people on a military installation.

Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone told reporters after the Fort Hood shooting that, “[W]e don’t carry weapons here, this is our home.” It may come as a surprise to many people that military installations are for the most part gun free zones. Only police are allowed to carry firearms on base – most soldiers are not allowed to carry weapons on base when not training.

Why isn’t Bloomberg outraged over the disarming of our servicemen and women on base? This is a “loophole” that can and should be closed quickly.

At the very least, those who hold a Texas concealed carry permit should be able to carry on post. That type of legal gun ownership would make the 33,000 people who reside at Fort Hood safer.

Bloomberg, of course, would not go for it because it doesn’t fit his extreme gun control agenda.

If Bloomberg’s organization were really just against the criminal misuse of firearms, its existence would be meaningless. A more fitting – and honest – title for Bloomberg’s group would be simply “Mayors Against Guns.”

Gun Owners of America

– Vote is scheduled for Saturday night

Friday, November 20, 2009

Tomorrow will be as important a day as any in our lifetimes in determining whether the anti-gun health care bill moves forward.
The key vote will be on shutting down a Republican filibuster of the ObamaCare bill, HR 3590.  In the Senate, we are faced with a health care bill that:
* Costs $2.5 trillion during its first ten years of full implementation (2014-2023);
* Increases insurance premiums and imposes $376 billion in tax increases — many on the middle class; and
* Cuts Medicare by $465 billion, while increasing health costs by over $100 billion.
Fox News is reporting today that the word “tax” appears 183 times in the health care bill.  Is Obama serious?  Is that what he and Reid want to do to us in the midst of a recession?
Of course, all this increased spending — and taxes — means that you will have less money to spend on pursuing your real passions:  like providing for your family and purchasing guns and ammunition!

The strategy in the Senate is to cram this bill down the American people’s throats before we have a chance to fully read and evaluate it.  And the vote on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. will determine whether, at least initially, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be able to get away with this.

Gun Owners of America has already gone into several states represented by key Democrats who will be central to the Saturday vote.  But this is sufficiently important that all 100 senators need to know where we stand.

Finally, as we have mentioned several times in the past, the mandates in the legislation will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government database that was created in section 13001 of the stimulus bill.  This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned… or any determination of PTSD, or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms.

And, the special “wellness and prevention” programs (inserted by Section 1001 of the bill as part of a new Section 2717 in the Public Health Services Act) would allow the government to offer lower premiums to employers who bribe their employees to live healthier lifestyles — and nothing within the bill would prohibit rabidly anti-gun HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from decreeing that “no guns” is somehow healthier.

We all need to contact our Senators right away.
Do you want left-wing bureaucrats appointed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid determining whether you should own a gun via the health care system?
If not, then you need to call right away.  Our gun rights — and the fate of our economy — are hanging in the balance.

ACTION: Call your two U.S. Senators.  Please urge them to vote against “cloture” on the “motion to proceed” to HR 3590.

You can call your Senators toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.  The phones are ringing off the hook right now on Capitol Hill.  More likely than not, you will have to try several times because the circuits have been overloaded.

But don’t be discouraged… keep calling!
Also, ask your wife, your relatives, your neighbors, your church — everyone, short of your dog — to do the same.  This is crunch time!
NOTE:  The alternate, non toll-free, number is 202-224-3121.

—– TALKING POINTS —–

1) Support the filibuster of HR 3590 by voting NO on cloture.

2) Socialized health care is too expensive.  I would rather spend my money the way I want to spend it!

3) Increasing my taxes during a recession is insane.

4) This bill will threaten to register me as a gun owner, because the mandates in this bill will force my medical information into the database that was created by the stimulus bill.

5) Vote NO on this bill!

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