The Jefferson Shooter Official publication of The Jefferson State Shooting Association Inc.

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1 The Jefferson Shooter Official publication of The Jefferson State Shooting Association Inc. JULY YOUR LOCAL SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION 2015 LEVER GUN SILHOUETAS METALICAS! Galina, Javelina, Guajalote and Borrego or chicken, pig, turkey and ram. Erick says the turn out was great for our first lever gun silhouette match partnered with the Warner Mountains Gun club from Lakeview. (Cont d pg 4- Lever gun ) BRIT COPS TELL VICTIMS DO NOT INJURE YOUR ATTACKER. Police in the UK are telling women to not use any defensive weapon to do bodily harm to the scumbag that is raping them. Instead they advise obtaining a rape alarm, a little electronic screamer that supposedly announces a rape crime is in progress. (cont d pg 4 rape ). JSSA P.O. Box 7178 Klamath Falls, Or ! Total number of shooters on our ranges last year. An increase of 2007 over 2014! Affiliated with the National Rifle Association of America Oregon State Shooting Association Member, Oregon Association of Shooting Ranges Editor-Floyd Hancock 1 OBAMA NOW ATTACKING 1ST AMENDMENT! Obama is now meddling in the state department directives that regulate International Traffic in Arms Regulation. This includes defense articles and defense services. So producers of these articles and services are supposed to register with the (See Obama pg 5) Next meeting at Klamath County Museum 1451 Main St. July 15, PM

2 OFFICERS President Jim Monroe V. President Erick Bishop Secretary Jake Nelson Treasurer Lynn Hodge Executive Officer Josh Wesley Instructor Katie Fineauer Sportsman Park Phil Doddridge MATCH DIRECTORS Action Steel Bill & Larry Watson USPSA Steve Hall Roger Schmidt Steel Charlie Halvorsen IDPA Jon McKellar Multi-gun Josh Wesley Jake Nelson Sporting Clays Bryan Vanderpol Bowling Pins Brent Glidden High power Erick Bishop Precision rifle (open) Cowboy Dave Castor Articles in this newsletter have been gleaned from the NRA-ILA website, NRA magazines and the internet. VOLUNTEER POSITIONS Youth program-katie Fineauer Gun show co-managers Jason Franks and Len Doddridge Reservation line JSSA NEWS: Some members have noticed that they can no longer access the JSSA activity schedule on our website and feel that s where it belongs. When sending our shooting activities to the H&N I try to do it on Friday a week before the shoot. If there are cancellations or modifications to the announcement please have them to me before that Friday as it will stand a better chance of getting published before the match. Photos are always welcome and as President Jim Monroe requested last winter they would show some of the diverse weather conditions where we conduct our matches. I must admit though, that there hasn t been much change in background scenery this past winter save for maybe a few bare trees. Work is being done to cut up and clear logs so intermediate berms can be positioned on the multipurpose range. It has also been determined that the black PRS bales will not be replaced by white bales as there is a problem with deterioration of the white ones. The black bales have been banded to increase longevity of the packed material. * The JSSA youth shooters will be hosting a fund raiser on September 5 at the fairgrounds exhibit hall # 2. Youth art will be for sale and the menu is tri tips of beef or chicken and doors open at 4:30pm with dinner at 5. Raffle items will include a Rogue River trip and a rifle, other donated items are welcome. Beer and wine by Mia s and Pia s will be available. Cost of dinner is $35 for adults with youth under17 for $25.Please contact Katie Feinauer at for reservations, donations and other information. Our shooting range utilization for last year at the park was documented as: All ranges 8993 Sporting clays yd range yd range 3531 Pistol range 2889 Sporting clays showed an increase of 43 shooters while the 600 yd range gained 527 over the 2014 numbers. The pistol range documented an increase of 320 while the 200yd range showed the greatest gain of users at 1117over last years figures. Overall total park attendance was 12,264 for the year as revealed from the sign in registers at the entry kiosk. We rely on this documentation when applying for grant funding so please make sure your attendance has been recorded when ever you go to the park and the activity you participated in. ** Fire season is upon us and we must see to it that the public obeys all park rules and fire restrictions. We all know of the prohibitions on tracers and steel tipped ammo but the public must be continually reminded of this along with proper gun handling and safety requirements.

3 JEFFERSON STATE SHOOTING ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION/ RENEWAL NRA membership required Please print: NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP PHONE NRA MEMBERSHIP # RENEWAL DATE SPORTSMA S PARK MEMBERSHIP # (Personal information for JSSA use only) MEMBERSHIP: VALID FROM June 1st to May 31st of following year. Membership categories: JSSA membership (NRA member) $ 25 JSSA membership( Non NRA member) $35 Sportsman s park family membership $60 JSSA/sportsman s park family membership (NRA member) $64 JSSA/Sportsman s park family membership non (NRA member) $74 Mail to: Jefferson State Shooting Association P.O. Box 7178, Klamath Falls, OR, H.R.2710 in the house entitled Lawful Purpose and Self Defense A bill HR2246 has been introduced in congress to allow Act of Intent of this bill is to rein in the BATFE from reina states resident to go out of state to purchase firearms provided terpreting the sporting purposes clauses in federal law. The Supreme court ruled in the Heller decision that self that the firearms sale would be legal in their home state also. defense is at the core of the second amendment. The BATFE has HR2611 The Collectable Firearms Protection Act has tried to reinterpret the sporting purposes definition to serve it s been introduced in the U.S. and would reverse the state departown purposes. ment s ban on importation of M-1 Garand rifles and M-1 CarThe bill would: remove ATF authority to reclassify ambines that started with Hillary as Sec. State. munition as armor piercing. An anti gun senator and congresswoman have introprovide for importation of firearms and ammunition not duced legislation that would provide $60 million for research on gun control citing legislation that prohibited using taxpayers dol- subject to the NFA for all lawful purposes. Prohibit reclassification of shotguns, shotgun shells and lars for that purpose some years ago. Their reasoning being that funding for the research was cut off and no studies for more certain rifles from being reclassified as destructive devices. Broaden temporary interstate transfers to include for all gun laws were being done. They ignored the vast amounts of lawful purposes and not just for sporting purposes. money provided by the Joyce Foundation, Bill and Melinda This bill would more clearly define federal law to ingates Foundation, Bloomberg et al for gun control purposes. clude for all lawful purposes rather than just for the very vaguely Ed Markey (D)MA and Carolyn Maloney (D) NY have introdefined sporting purposes that the BATFE and some administraduced bills to provide the CDC with more funding for tions have used for more gun control laws and regulations. research. This is long needed legislation. Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R) UT has introduced U.S. Congress: 3

4 Rape from pg 1. The attitude in Britain is you will violate the thug s rights if you injure him in any way when he attacks you. British subjects are not permitted pepper spray or any self defense product that might cause injury to someone who is attacking them. A police hot line has been established for the citizenry so they can call the police to see if whatever defensive measures one might take will pass legal muster in the courts. It has been found that if a person uses a dye marker to I.D. the crook it may get into his eyes and cause injury. To my mind if some dirt bag is attacking me or a family member he has just given his a** to God! From pg 1 Lever gun Approximately 15 shooters braved the gorgeous sunshiny day on the Wickline range to try and knock down silhouette targets. According to Erick there was a 93 year old competitor that really was in the competition as he placed within the top shooters in the match. One shooter came all the way from Salem and placed in the middle of the pack. From the enthusiastic reports this match may become a regular feature and welcome addition to our organized shooting activity calendar. USPSA NATIONALS According to Roger, sunny frost free Florida will be the site of the USPSA Nationals in October. Roger says we have two slots we can fill: one for open, limited 10 and one for Limited. Limited match, October 3-6. Open and Limited 10 match October Please contact Roger Schmidt at schmidtroger@charter.net if you are interested. IDPA IDPA on Sunday the 28th drew 9 shooters to engage an assortment of target scenarios only Jon could come up with. Bad guys, mean dogs and exploding water bottles were the target arrays this time. Next month Jon will no doubt have more and diverse situations for us to contend with. Top shooter was Steve Hall shooting his CDP.40 and Scott Anderson came in second shooting SSP. Third was Tom Chandler also in SSP. Places are for the overall match with Steve and Scott winning their classes. 4

5 JULY SCHEDULE Date Match Range Set up Sign up Start Sat 4th Steel challenge Mason 8am 9am 9:30 High power practice Wickline 11am Sun. 5th USPSA Various 8am 9am 9:30 Thur. 9th Youth archery Suzies-Keno 6:30pm Sat 11th Sporting clays Clays course 8:30 9am JSSA youth shooters Martin 10am Sun 12th Cowboys Mason 9am 9am 9:39 Wed. 15th Meeting Museum 6pm Sat. 18th Action steel Mason 8am 9am 9:30 High power Wickline 11am Thurs. 23rd Youth archery Suzies-Keno 6:30pm Sat. 25th Sporting clays Clays course 8:30 9am JSSA youth shooters Martin 10am Cowboys Mason 8am 9am 9:30 Sun. 26th IDPA Mason 8am 9am 9:30 AUGUST SCHEDULE DATE ACTIVITY RANGE SET UP SIGN UP START Sat 1st Steel challenge Mason 8am 9am 9:30 High power practice Wickline 11am Sun 2nd USPSA Various 8am 9am 9:30 Sat 8th Sporting clays Clays course 8:30 9am Youth club Martin 10am Sun 9th Cowboys Mason 8am 9am 9:30 Thurs 13th Youth archery Suzie's-Keno 6:30pm Sat 15th Action steel Mason 8am 9am 9:30 High power match Wickline 11am Wed 19th Meeting Museum 6pm Sat 22nd JSSA youth Martin 10am Klamath Cowboys Mason 8am 9am 9:30 Sporting clays Clays course 8:30 9am Sun 23rd IDPA Mason` 8am 9am 9:30 Thurs 27th Youth archery Suzie's-Keno 6:30 PM Obama (Cont d from pg 1) state department, with an exorbitant fee of course. ITAR regulated items include technical data about arms and ammunition and the state department now insists that any of that data has been exported if it was published on the internet and now will fall under the ITAR directives. This means that before any of the technical data about arms and ammunition is published anywhere it must have permission of the Department of State. Smell a rat? If this regulation is a allowed to stand it would amount to a prior restraint of the first amendment of free speech. Can you say Brownell s, loading manuals, firearms disassembly drawings, firearms owners manuals.etc? A comment period is open until August 3 and comments should be sent online to regulations.gov or by to DDTCPublicComments@state.gov. subject line, ITAR Amendment Revision to Definitions; Data Transmission and storage. We also need to contact our two U.S. Senators, Wyden and Merkely and Congressman Greg Walden and ask them to oppose these proposed amendments to state department regulations and definite assault of the free speech rights of Americans. 5