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International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup Sydney – USA Brings Home Three Gold & Five Silver

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --(Ammoland.com)- Just seven months after securing the title of Junior World Champion in Men’s Skeet, Jon Michael McGrath (Tulsa, Okla.) finished the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Sydney with a golden glow.

Olympic Training Center Resident Athlete McGrath was on target for not only qualification, but also the final.

Shooting 124 out of 125 targets after five rounds left McGrath tied with three other shooters headed into the final.

Jon Michael McGrath celebrates his gold medal victory in Men's Skeet.

McGrath and Georgios Achilleos (Cyprus) were the only shooters that remained focused enough to shoot clean finals (25 targets). With just a two target shoot-off, McGrath bested Achilleos for the gold medal for a total of 149 +2 targets.

At just 18 years old, McGrath is one of the youngest members on the National Shotgun Team, yet didn’t let his youth cloud the path to success. Achilleos, the 2010 World Championship bronze medalist, finished with the silver medal in Sydney. Russia’s Valerly Shomin, the reigning World Champion, secured the bronze medal with 148 total targets (124 + 25). The USA’s TJ Bayer (College Station, Texas) and Sergeant Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, Ga.) finished in the middle of the field with 119 targets.

The USA Shooting Team leaves Sydney the most victorious and medal-winning federation with eight total medals-three gold and five silver medals-won. China finished with a close second of eight medals-two gold, one silver and five bronze medals. Moreover, the USA brought home a very important quota for Men’s 50m Rifle Prone won by Sergeant First Class Eric Uptagrafft (Phenix City, Ala.).

The medal winners are as follows:

• Gold: Jamie Beyerle (Lebanon, Pa.), Women’s 50m Rifle Three Position
• Gold: Kim Rhode (El Monte, Calif.), Women’s Skeet
• Gold: Jon Michael McGrath (Tulsa, Okla.), Men’s Skeet
• Silver: Matt Emmons (Browns Mills, N.J.), Men’s 50m Rifle Three Position
• Silver: Amy Sowash (Richmond, Ky.), Women’s 50m Rifle Three Position
• Silver: Sgt. 1st Class Eric Uptagrafft (Phenix City, Ala.), Men’s 50m Rifle Prone
• Silver: Staff Sergeant Joshua Richmond (Hillsgrove, Pa.), Men’s Double Trap
• Silver: Caitlin Connor (Winnfield, La.), Women’s Skeet

For complete results, please visit the ISSF Website. The USA Shooting Team will be traveling to Changwon, Korea, from April 12 to19 for the second leg of the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup. The shotgun team takes a rest for a week before competing in Beijing, China for the third ISSF Shotgun World Cup. Catch all the latest updates and follow your team on USA Shooting’s Facebook

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About USA Shooting:
USA Shooting, a 501c3 non-profit corporation, was chartered by the United States Olympic Committee as the National Governing Body for the sport of shooting in April 1995. USA Shooting’s mission is to prepare American athletes to win Olympic medals, promote the shooting sports throughout the U.S. and govern the conduct of international shooting in the country. Check us out on the web at www.usashooting.org and on Twitter at twitter.com/USAShooting.

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Florida Open Carry Bill Stalled in Committee
SB 234 – Open Carry/Vehicle Storage/Long Gun Statute Repeal Bill Stalled in Senate Judiciary Committee

Florida Open Carry Bill Stalled in Committee

Florida Carry

Florida - -(Ammoland.com)- SB 234’s companion bill has expeditiously completed its journey through committee and is waiting to be heard on the House floor.

For some undisclosed reason, SB 234 has been stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee since March 16.

Normally, the chairperson of the committee is responsible for scheduling bills to be considered. Senator Anitere Flores (R-Miami/Dade) is the chairperson for this committee. Her staff maintains that the committee staff has not scheduled the bill, and the committee staff states it is the chairperson’s responsibility.

The bill’s sponsor, Senator Evers, has sent multiple formal requests to get the bill scheduled. The next committee meeting is April 4, and SB 234 is still not on the agenda for this meeting.

It is critical that this bill get scheduled and heard, as it still has to pass both this committee and the Senate Rules Committee prior to the end of committee meetings for the session.

Florida Carry is urgently requesting your immediate action to get this bill on the agenda. We need everyone to fire off an e-mail to both Senator Flores and Senate President Mike Haridopolos. We are calling for a “mailbox meltdown”. Early on, Senator Bogdanoff waffled on this bill, and it was your enormous response that got her back on board. We need you to do this again, this time in trump.

Feel free to use the e-mail helper below, and thank you again for your solid support. We’re almost there, and we just need a final push to get this bill to the Governor’s desk for his promised signature.
E-mail Helper (feel free to cut, copy, paste, and edit to suit)

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TO:

flores.anitere.web@flsenate.gov; haridopolos.mike.web@flsenate.gov

SUBJECT:

Get SB 234 moving again!

Dear Senators Haridopolos and Flores

Senate Bill 234 has been sitting at the Judiciary Committee since March 16. Its companion bill in the house has already completed committee hearings and awaits a vote on the house floor. It is imperative that SB 234 get scheduled for both the Judiciary and Rules Committees immediately, in order to make the April 26 cutoff date.

Senator Evers has made multiple requests for scheduling the bill, and has been ignored to date. Florida Carry, and other rights organizations, have worked too long and too hard to get this bill to this point, just to have it die in committee within sight of the finish line. Governor Scott has already indicated his intent to sign the bill. Concealed carry licensees have patiently waited for this bill for over 23 years. Florida is one of only seven states that do not permit some form of general open carry. The objections raised by law enforcement and retail associations make no mention that the practice of open carry is successful in 43 states, nor do they acknowledge their dire predictions are the same “blood in the streets” arguments of almost a quarter-century ago. Those predictions have been proven unfounded. There is no substantiated reason for this bill to be stalled at this point.

Please get this bill scheduled immediately for the remaining two committees.

Respectfully yours,

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About:
Florida Carry is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to advancing the fundamental civil right of all Floridians to keep and bear arms for self defense as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I Section 8 of the Florida Constitution. Florida Carry, Inc. was organized by a group of Florida gun rights activists in order to better coordinate activities, effectively lobby the state legislature, and to provide a legal entity capable of filing suit to demand compliance with state and federal law. Florida Carry stands only to represent our members and the over 6 million gun owners of Florida. We are not beholden to any national organization’s agenda that may compromise that mission.

Florida Carry works tirelessly toward repealing and striking down ill-conceived gun control laws that have been proven to provide safe havens to criminals and be deadly to law abiding citizens.

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