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Sportsman Channel Unveils New Way for American Sportsmen To Connect With Their Favorite TV Programs
Sportsman App is Now Available at the iPhone App Store. Company Launches Promotion to Give Away Five iPod Touch.

Sportsman Channel iPhone App

Sportsman Channel

New Berlin, Wis. --(AmmoLand.com)- Sportsman Channel announced the launch of their Sportsman App, an innovative iPhone application designed specifically for the American Sportsmen who makes hunting, shooting and fishing an integral part of their lives.

This free app is now available at the iPhone App Store and is the first-of-its-kind in the sportsman media space. Users are able to view video clips of previously aired and currently airing Sportsman shows right on their iPhone. Additionally, they can view review information, consult full TV schedules, and email or tweet their favorite content to their friends.

The Sportsman App is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch with operating system version 3.1.3. The application was designed and developed by Sportsman Channel in cooperation with Brightcove. Sportsman will be launching the app for the iPad very soon, and future apps and new versions will continue to be produced and released.

Visit the iTunes App Store to download and review today!

To help promote this new app, Sportsman Channel is giving away five iPod Touch during the month of May via three promotions on Sportsman Channel’s website plus a promotion on each of Facebook and Twitter. Please see (http://thesportsmanchannel.com/giveaways); (http://facebook.com/sportsmanchannel); and (http://twitter.com/sportsmanchnl).

“Our viewers are finding the iPhone to be a fantastic platform to experience the programming on Sportsman Channel,” said Willy Burkhardt, president of Sportsman Channel. “You can select videos by hunt, shoot or fish categories to watch the latest clips of our high-quality programming. No one else our space is offering their viewers this kind of interaction and value.”

Features of the Sportsman App include:

• Programming Clip Gallery: View clips (refreshed weekly) of all currently-airing programming;
• TV Schedule: Learn your favorite shows’ airtimes to set your DVR;
• Email/Tweet Feature: Click on the video to immediately email or tweet to your followers.

“The ability to utilize our digital and online assets to the fullest extent with our parent company, InterMedia Outdoors, is truly what sets us apart from our competitors,” said Todd D. Hansen, Chief Marketing Officer for Sportsman Channel.

About Sportsman Channel:
Launched in 2003, Sportsman Channel is the only television and digital media company fully devoted to the more than 82 million sportsmen in the United States, delivering entertaining and educational programming focused exclusively on hunting, shooting and fishing activities. Sportsman Channel is now available in HD, check with your local cable or satellite provider. Acquired by InterMedia Outdoors Holdings in 2006, Sportsman Channel reaches more than 25 million U.S. television households and is a part of the nation’s largest multimedia company targeted exclusively to serving the information and entertainment needs of outdoors enthusiasts. Visit www.thesportsmanchannel.com, follow on Twitter, @SPORTSMANchnl (www.twitter.com/SPORTSMANchnl), become a Fan on Facebook, www.facebook.com/sportsmanchannel and download Sportsman App at www.itunes.com/appstore

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Your Duty as a Gun Owner to Vote
By Jeff Knox

Your Duty as a Gun Owner to Vote

FirearmsCoalition.org

Manassas, VA --(AmmoLand.com)- I propose that the “firearms fraternity” begin placing as much emphasis on voting and voter education as we do on safety and safety education.

Unintentional firearms injuries and fatalities have dropped by some 60% over the past 20 years while the number of firearms in circulation has more than doubled. These amazing results are not due to government programs, laws, or regulations.

They are a result of education and an almost universal acceptance of and insistence on adherence to the basic rules of firearms safety. Gun owners not only practice firearms safety, they advocate for it and expect it from others, and they shun anyone who fails to abide by the rules. The improving firearms safety record is a stellar example of positive peer pressure. We in the firearms fraternity need to extend that success into the realm of voting.

Gun owners should see voting in every election, and having a general understanding of the candidates’ positions regarding rights, as a core obligation for themselves, their friends, and their family. Those who do not vote – regardless of their excuse or rationalization – should be seen as letting down their brothers and sisters in arms. They are failing in their obligation as citizens, and empowering the enemies of liberty. In short, GunVoters need to look at gun owners who don’t vote with the same incredulity that they would look at a person who recklessly waves a gun around with a finger on the trigger. Excuses like “My vote doesn’t matter” should be received with the same disdain shown when someone says “Hey, it isn’t loaded.”

While it is too much to expect every gun owner to immerse themselves in politics, it is not too much to expect them to cast an informed vote every time the polls open. Activist GunVoters can do more than they might realize to improve the turnout among other gun owners by using social pressure. That’s because social pressure is what gets most people to the polls in the first place. Experts who research voting patterns and motives have boiled it down to these few broad factors: “Does my vote matter?” “Will my vote benefit me or others?” “Do I feel obligated to vote regardless of benefit or impact?” “How much does voting cost me in time, hassle, etc.?”

If the answers to the first three questions outweigh the answer to the last question, the person votes, otherwise they don’t. With most people realizing that their one vote, among thousands or millions, does not affect the outcome of an election, it is the sense of duty, obligation, or tradition which tips the scale in favor of voting.

It is that sense of obligation that activists need to plant and nurture in every gun owner and to spread to every close friend and family member of gun owners. Gun owners are generally good about voting, but we must work to make it a core tenet of the “firearms fraternity” that gun owners vote every chance they get. And they vote with individual rights at the top of their candidate qualification criteria.

As patriots and inheritors of the sacred trust of the Second Amendment, gun owners have a duty to vote as an expression of faith in our Constitution and way of life, as an expression of appreciation and connection to the men and women who gave us these blessings and those who have defended them through the generations. Voting is not only homage to the past, but also a promise to future generations that we will do everything we can to provide them with the same rights and opportunities that our parents and grandparents passed on to us.

Along with stressing these traditional values, we must establish a new tradition of voting as the fulfillment of an obligation to one another to do our part to protect the Second Amendment and the entire Constitution. If we can develop and nurture such a voting culture among gun owners, we can be the most formidable force in American politics.

An important step toward achieving this goal is easy access to reliable information about elections and candidates. That is what www.GunVoter.org is all about. The vast majority of Americans – gun owners and non-gun owners alike – are simply not interested in politics and find it confusing and unsettling. That leaves it up to GunVoters like you and me, those of us who do follow politics, to make sure that the rest of the fraternity can easily find the information they need to be responsible, informed voters – GunVoters.

Order Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War today and receive a free subscription to the Knox Hard Corps Report newsletter. Learn about the past and keep up with current news to better secure your rights. Get it all at www.NealKnox.com

About:
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists in the form of education, analysis of current issues, and with a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition is a project of Neal Knox Associates, Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org

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