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Charter Arms

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since 1964

  • 1964 founded by Douglas McClennahan
    – he had previously worked for Colt, High Standard, and Sturm Ruger
  • 1967 David Ecker became a 50/50 partner
  • The Undercover –  smallest, lightest steel framed revolver with the fewest moving parts

Charter Arms
18 Brewster Lane, Shelton
Connecticut 06484
(866)-769-4867

charterfirearms.com

Rick Ector

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  • 2007? – Rick’s Firearm Academy of Detroit 
  • 2014 Gun Advocate of the Year – Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners (MCRGO)
  • 2016 Defender of Freedom Award – Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC)

Rick Ector speaking at the GRPC in Phoenix, AZ on the importance of providing women with free firearm training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jaK5DeoxZU

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/keep-going-rick-ector-legally-armed-in-detroit-grpc-2019_ZfqzMWZIc5XlFFc.html

Rick Ector – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com › channel

NSSF

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1961

National Shooting Sports Foundation

  • Founded in 1961
  • Sue King organized the first major “Women’s Only” Shooting Event
    1988 Ladies Charity Classic
    – American Shooting Center, Houston, TX
    – 300 women participate
  • Sue organized Ladies Charity Classic series of around the country
  • 1992 NSSF launched Womens Shooting Sports Foundation WSSF

NSSF = National Shooting Sports Foundation , national trade association for the firearms industry, based in Newtown, Connecticut. Formed in 1961, more than 8,000 members https://www.nssf.org/


“To create a better public understanding of and a more active participation in the shooting sports”
Harmon Williams (of Browning) motioned to establish the NSSF at the Second National Conference on the Shooting Sports


The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms
industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting
sports. 

NSSF has a membership of more than 8,000 manufacturers, distributors,

firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers

Warren Page

– 1960 Created the First National Conference on the Shooting Sports
– 1972 Director of National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)

 

 

 

KRA

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Kentucky Rifle Association

1920

  • 1920s created by George N. Hyatt and a number of early collectors and students of the Kentucky rifle and pistol
  •  1924 Captain John G. W. Dillin, wrote “The Kentucky Rifle”
  • 1961 Dilin invited a number of collectors to participate in an exhibit and discussion at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
  • April 14 – 15, 1962, a second meeting was held at the Mountain View Inn, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
  • 1975 KRA book, Kentucky Rifles and Pistols, 1750 – 1850
  • 1979 Annual Meeting marked the 5th anniversary of our KRA Newsletter
  • 1981 our KRA book, Kentucky Rifles and Pistols 1750 – 1850, was reprinted
  • 2004 Kentucky Rifle foundation formed
  • 2010, after thirty-eight years at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, annual show was relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2012 Annual Meeting, celebrated 50 Year Anniversary