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Larry and Brenda Potterfield

Midway USA

Columbia, MO --(Ammoland.com)- Larry and Brenda Potterfield, Founders of MidwayUSA, are in Dallas, TX this weekend attending the 2012 Dallas Safari Club (DSC) annual convention as the Official Sponsor of the show.

The convention and sporting expo show began Tuesday, January 3, 2012 with exhibitor registration and move-in, and ends Sunday, January 8th at the Dallas Convention Center and Hyatt Regency in Dallas, TX.

Between the usual hustle and bustle of exhibits, seminars and silent auctions, the Potterfields will be attending the first annual Youth Wildlife Conservation Experience (YWCE) at the convention on Friday, January 6. This event is offered to high school students in the Dallas Ecological Foundation’s (DEF) Outdoor Adventures Education program. At the YWCE, students will hear from professional guides, biologists and outfitters regarding wildlife conservation.

“Recruitment of the next generation of outdoorsmen and women is our biggest challenge to maintaining our hunting heritage,” said Ben Carter, Executive Director of the DSC. “Larry and Brenda’s gift has enabled us to bring 400 kids to our show and truly create a positive and educational experience in what the outdoors is all about. We could not have done this without their support”.

In addition to his appearance at the YWCE event, Larry will present the Educator of the Year award during the Friday night dinner and auction. He will also spend some time at the DSC membership booth Saturday, January 7th at 10:00am in the exhibit hall.

“Brenda and I are extremely excited to attend this year’s convention,” said Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA. “Please meet us at the show and join in the efforts to preserve our hunting traditions.”

About MidwayUSA
MidwayUSA (http://www.midwayusa.com) is a family-owned catalog and internet retailer specializing in Just About Everything℠ for Shooting, Reloading, Gunsmithing and Hunting. Now celebrating our 35th Anniversary, Larry and Brenda Potterfield turned their passion for shooting sports into a career in 1977 by opening a small retail firearms store that would eventually become MidwayUSA. MidwayUSA is still owned by the Potterfield Family and Customer Satisfaction is still our Number One Goal.

For more information about MidwayUSA, please visit our website or call 800-243-3220.

For more information about the DSC, please visit www.biggame.org or call 972-980-9800.

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52 Shot, 8 Dead And Mayor Daley Still Denies Your Right To Self-Defense

Second Amendment Foundation

BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- Fifty-two people shot, eight of them fatally in a single Chicago weekend, yet Mayor Richard Daley appears poised to go down screaming in his opposition to the Second Amendment Foundation’s lawsuit to overturn his city’s handgun ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule any day on the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, filed by SAF, the Illinois State Rifle Association and four Chicago residents. That ruling will likely strike down the handgun ban, thus opening the door to legal self-defense by Windy City residents.

“Chicago has become a slaughterhouse,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, “where defenseless victims are terrorized by armed thugs who have taken full advantage of an unarmed populace. Daley and his predecessors who perpetuated this ban are wading knee-deep in the blood of hundreds of crime victims who should have had the means to defend themselves.

“Year after year the statistics have piled up,” he continued, “yet Mayor Daley has stubbornly defended the city’s ban. While he has luxuriated at his vacation home with the safety of armed bodyguards, the bodies of Chicago crime victims have stacked up like cordwood.

“Within days,” Gottlieb observed, “we should have a ruling from the Supreme Court that puts an end to this insanity, and gives the citizens of Chicago back their right to defend themselves. Daley thinks his constituents should be content to call 911 and wait for help to arrive while they’re being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed or beaten. Those crimes happen fast, and when seconds count, Chicago police are minutes away.

“We took Daley to court because we trust his citizens more than he does with their self-defense rights,” Gottlieb concluded. “Chicago residents have endured the terror of public disarmament for almost three decades, and all they have to show for it is a body count. Mayor Daley should be ashamed.”

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

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