Over the last several weeks, hundreds of stories have appeared nationwide about increasing firearm sales due to gun owners' concerns that
President-elect Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress will pass legislation limiting the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
Firearms retailers report that many firearm customers are interested in buying semi-automatic rifles that have a military look to them. There is
much confusion among the public and the media about how these rifles function and about their legitimate uses for target shooting and hunting. Often
incorrectly referred to as semi-automatic "assault weapons," they are the type of firearms that President-elect Obama has indicated he would seek to
ban by making permanent the expired 1994 so-called "assault weapons" ban.
Few media stories have explained the difference between true fully automatic military assault rifles and the politically labeled, so-called
"assault rifle."
To help promote accurate reporting about these commonplace semi-automatic firearms, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has produced a media
resource page located on the NSSF.org Web site in the Media Resources section at nssf.org... There are
helpful videos that explain the difference between fully automatic military and semi-automatic military look-alike rifles, and a Q&A section.
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How many news outlets will take advantage pf the information?
On a local level I've been offering my assistance to town outlets for years. I've proven the local cops that unnamed local paper would use as
resources wrong in writing and on camera and was still ignored and passed up by the local outlets in favor of their hand-picked biased or selectively
ignorant 'experts' on the subject more than once.
This resource and assistance offered here by the NSSF is nothing new. It will be labeled as 'biased' or 'extremist' and passed up for resources
the media knows will echo their ignorant sentiment--> guns are bad.
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