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USA Shooting Skeet Team Wins Gold At World Cup In Concepcion, Chile & Ties World Record

USA Shooting Men's Skeet Team on the podium

Scholastic Clay Target Program

Concepcion, Chile  - -(Ammoland.com)- The USA Shooting Men’s Skeet Team comprised of Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, GA), Jon Michael McGrath, (Tulsa, OK) and Frank Thompson (Alliance, NE) tied the World Record in Men’s Skeet today while capturing the gold medal for the United States at The World Cup held in Concepcion, Chile.

Out of a possible 125 targets, Thompson finished with a competition score of 123, Hancock with 122 and McGrath with 121 posting a combined score of 366/375.The United States owns the World Record set in 2009 at the World Championship in Maribor, Slovenia.

The USA team finished just short of individual medals. The USA Shooting Team has the youngest men’s team competing in the ISSF World Cup Series and at the World Clay Target Championships in Belgrade, Serbia later this year.

Vincent Hancock is the 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist at the Beijing Olympic Games and Jon Michael McGrath is the 2010 World Champion in Men’s Junior Skeet in Munich. Both were former Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Champions, and SCTP is the Official Clay Target Youth Development Program of USA Shooting.

The USA Team returns home for a few days before traveling to the next stop in the World Cup series March 22 – Aprl 1, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney World Cup has 64 nations represented with 721 competitors in the Olympic sports of rifle, pistol and shotgun.

• Athlete Profile: Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, GA) www.usashooting.com/athlete.php?id=35
• Athlete Profile: Jon Michael McGrath (Tulsa, OK) www.usashooting.com/athlete.php?id=234
• Athlete Profile: Frank Thompson (Alliance, NE) www.usashooting.com/athlete.php?id=162

Athletes are members of the United States National Team at USA Shooting, based at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. USA Shooting is the National Governing Body for Olympic Shooting Sports in the United States.

About SCTP
SCTP is a youth development program where adult coaches and volunteers model sportsmanship, responsibility, and teamwork while using shooting sports programs to teach these and other positive life skills to SCTP athletes. SCTP activities are designed to incorporate two indispensable elements – FUN AND SAFETY. The safe handling of firearms is the primary focus of all SCTP clubs.

To learn more about SCTP call (586) 737-0805 or visit their website at www.shootsctp.org

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Will Congress Lay the Groundwork for Gun Confiscation?

Will Congress Lay the Groundwork for Gun Confiscation

Gun Owners of America

Washington, DC --(Ammoland.com)- Within the next 90 days, Congress will vote on whether to reauthorize legislation to specifically allow the government potential access to millions of gun records (4473’s).

Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which must be reauthorized soon, is of particular concern.

This section allows the FBI to seize business records — including the 4473 forms that gun buyers fill out. The only significant caveat is that the FBI must claim that the seizure of records is needed pursuant to “an authorized investigation.”

But since a secret court is required to rubber-stamp the government’s request (unless it fails to make even a specious case), the FBI can easily abuse its authority. The Inspector General found that, between 2003 and 2006, the FBI may have violated the law over 6,000 times with respect to their authority under various provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

So just imagine that it’s your gun records that have been seized. Under such circumstances, the gun dealer is specifically prohibited, under penalty of law, from telling you that the FBI has confiscated the records of your firearms purchases. Under the PATRIOT Act, any limitations on the use of the seized records shall be at the sole discretion of the Department of Justice.

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house!

It is imperative that Congress protect gun owners from rogue government agents who would abuse their authority to register gun owners.

We’ve already seen the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives attempt to register gun owners recently when they tried to require certain gun dealers to report anyone who, within a five day period, tried to purchase two or more semi-automatic rifles (that are .22 caliber or greater and can accept a detachable magazine).

Historically, gun registration has been a prelude to gun confiscation, as documented by the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership almost 20 years ago. They showed how several foreign governments in the Twentieth Century had used gun control — and quite often gun registration — to confiscate firearms. In each case, such confiscation was a prelude to genocide.

ACTION: Contact your two senators and insist that any language to reauthorize Section 215 also contain language to protect 4473’s from the Obama administration’s scrutiny. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your legislators the pre-written e-mail message below.

About:
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue. `The only no comprise gun lobby in Washington’ – Ron Paul

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