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Youth Shooting Sports Alliance Introduces New Donated Firearms Program

Youth Shooting Sports Alliance

YSSA - -(AmmoLand.com)- The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance has introduced their new “Donated Firearms Program” to generate funds to purchase equipment and supplies needed by priority youth shooting sports programs nationwide.

“The Donated Firearms Program provides an opportunity for sportsmen and women to donate their old guns and help the YSSA build the next generation of shooters” said David Baron, President of Baron Technology, Inc. and President of YSSA. Baron added “It may be just your old gun, but put in the right hands, it can help sustain the sport of shooting while strengthening the core values of the next generation of shooters and hunters.”

The Donated Firearms program, featured on YSSA’s website www.youthshootingsa.com, encourages the donation of firearms which, in turn, will be sold on GunBroker.com – the web’s largest hunting and sport shooting auction.  Firearms will be listed without a reserve bid and will be awarded to the highest bidder.  The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance, a 501(c)(3) private foundation, will provide the donor with a tax deductible receipt upon the sale of each firearm.

Prospective donors are asked to complete an electronic form on YSSA’s website to donate a firearm.  In addition to contact information about the donor, the form requests a description of the firearm to include any known defects in appearance and function.  The form also requests contact information for the Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder who will be shipping the firearm in behalf of the donor.  Upon receipt of this signed form, the YSSA will forward a copy of the FFL to whom the firearm is to be shipped to the transferring FFL working with the donor.  The donor will be provided copies of all communications between the FFL holders involved.  The donor must agree to pay for shipping of the firearm to the YSSA’s designated FFL holder – Red’s Army/Navy, Kitty Hawk, NC.

Proceeds from the sale of donated firearms will be used to overcome limiting factors to growth of youth shooting sports programs that are attributable to equipment and supplies.

About:
The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance’s mission is to identify and support the needs of successful and safe youth programs.  Youth groups and industry members interested in learning more about the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance are encouraged to visit their website at www.youthshootingsa.com.

Youth Shooting Sports Alliance
Contact: Steve Miller, Executive Director
shootforthefuture@charter.net

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O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. Continues Support Of Priority Youth Shooting Sports Programs

Youth Shooting Sports Alliance

-(AmmoLand.com)- The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance (YSSA) recently announced that O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. has generously continued their support of priority youth shooting sports programs.

Mossberg, the leader in introducing important design breakthroughs to the firearm industry since 1919, donated two Mossberg 500 Super Bantam 20 ga. shotguns to the Mississippi 4-H Shooting Sports Program; four Mossberg 500 Super Bantam 20 ga. shotguns to the Mobile Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), Mobile, AL; five Mossberg 500 Super Bantam 20 ga. shotguns to the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council, BSA, Pleasant Hill, CA; and four Mossberg 500 Super Bantam 20 ga. shotguns to the Palmetto Council, BSA, Spartanburg, SC.  These programs were among those selected by an industry panel convened to review proposals submitted by youth organizations in response to the 2008 National Youth Shooting Sports Program Needs Assessment conducted by YSSA.

Mark Kresser, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Mossberg, states “We count on the recommendations of the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance regarding the youth shooting sports programs that promise the greatest potential for growth and participation levels.  With their guidance, we are confident that our product donations will help elevate local shooting sports from ‘good’ to ‘excellent.’”

About:
Mossberg’s products are built to world-class levels of manufacturing standards and for more than a decade, the Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun has served as one of the most practical starter shotguns ever made.  Now, with the same standards of quality, dependability, and safety in mind, shooters and hunters will find the 500 Super Bantam truly remarkable.  Unequaled in practicality and loaded with custom-like features, these new pump-action shotguns provide an affordable opportunity for beginning and growing shooters to get started with a safe and reliable shotgun.  The Mossberg 500 Super Bantam is the choice of young sportsmen and smaller framed shooters.  For more information on Mossberg products, visit their website at www.mossberg.com.

About:
The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance is a 501 (c)(3) private foundation whose mission is to identify and support the needs of successful and safe youth programs.  Youth groups and industry members interested in learning more about the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance are encouraged to visit their website at www.youthshootingsa.com.

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