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NSSA

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National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA)

  • – Created in 1920
    – by Charles Davis and William Harnden Foster
  • Created in Andover, Massachusetts
  • Introduced Nationally in the February 1926
  • 1926 National Skeet Shooting Association formed
    – National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas
  • November 1961 Henry Alcus, proposed the foundation of a NSSA permanent library
  • NSSA/NSCA Museum and Hall of Fame
  • 1973 the NSSA moved from Dallas to its new “permanent” home in San Antonio
  • 1989 the first NSSA/NSCA Museum and Hall of Fame building
  • 2002 construction was started on new museum building

National Skeet Shooting Association is the National Governing Body for NSSA-type skeet shooting in the USA. They promote skeet shooting with 12 gauge, 20 gauge, 28 gauge and 410 gauge shotguns and also host their “World Shoot” each year.

Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET)

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February 25, 1919

  • Section 4181 of the Internal Revenue Code
  • imposes an excise tax on imported firearms and ammunition
  • since January 2003  – administered by the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Bureau (TTB) within the U.S. Dept. of Treasury
  • 10% tax of the sales price is imposed on pistols and revolvers
  • 11% tax of the sales price is imposed on other portable weapons (rifles & shotguns) and ammunition

O.F. Mossberg & Sons

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Started March 1919
New Haven, Connecticut

O.F. Mossberg & Sons the oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in USA

  • 1866 Oscar Frederick Mossberg born in Sweden
    1866–1937
  • 1886 emigrated to the United States
  • worked at the Iver Johnson Arms
  •  managed C.S. Shattuck Arms Co
  •  worked for J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co
    –  he designed a small four-shot novelty pistol
  • 1907 – 1909 made 500 four-shot pistols in old barn behind his house
  • 1914 worked for Marlin
    moved to New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1919 Marlin went out of business
  • March 1919 at 53-years-old O.F. Mossberg
    his two sons, Iver and Harold
    started O.F. Mossberg & Sons in New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1920 -1932 4-shot .22-caliber pocket pistol the Brownie
  • 1921 the company purchased a new building
  • 1922 first .22 rimfire rifles
  • 1922 pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. Savage
    (son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp)
  • 1937 built a third factory
  • 1937 O.F. Mossberg passed the business continued under his son Harold
  • made parts for Browning M2 during World War II
  • 1960 new facility in North Haven
  • firearms production moved to Eagle Pass, Texas

O.F. Mossberg & Sons

ATA

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Amateur Trapshooting Association

1900

is the National Governing Body for ATA-type trapshooting. The ATA hosts the Grand American Trapshooting tournament at Vandalia, Ohio in August each year. The “Grand” attracts the most shooters of any shooting event held in the USA.

– Founded 1900
– first president was John Philip Sousa
– Mission, To promote and govern the sport throughout the world
– changed to the Amateur Trapshooting Association in 1923
– http://www.shootata.com

Amateur Trapshooting Association
1105 East Broadway
P.O. Box 519
Sparta, IL 62286

TSRA

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Texas State Rifle Association 

started in 1918

Texas State Rifle Association
8411 North I-35 AUSTIN, TX 78753
Toll free: 800-462-TSRA (8772)

Local: 512-615-4200
Fax: 512-615-4123

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/texasstaterifleassociation/

Auto-Ordnance

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Aug 1916

Auto-Ordnance

  • August 1916 founded by John T. Thompson
  • 1919 first short run production
  •  Model 1921 made by Colt
  • 1950s, Auto-Ordnance was owned and operated by Numrich Arms Corporation (N.A.C.)
  • 1999 bought by Kahr Arms

1437 Railroad Ave
Bridgeport, Connecticut

AATA

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American Amateur Trapshooting Association (AATA)
– Founded in 1915
– disbanded in 1919
– absorbed by the American Trapshooting Association (ATA)

 

Amateur Trapshooting Association is the National Governing Body for ATA-type trapshooting. The ATA hosts the Grand American Trapshooting tournament at Vandalia, Ohio in August each year. The “Grand” attracts the most shooters of any shooting event held in the USA.

Rex Applegate

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June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998

  • Learned marksmanship from his uncle Gus Peret
  • 1940 graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business Degree
  • 1940 join US Army
  • developed armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
  • 1941 recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS
  • close-combat coordinator for all clandestine missions  in WWII
  • personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
  • 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
  • 1980s designed the Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
  • 1994 inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame