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Oil and Gas Industry Investments in the National Rifle Association and Safari Club International Reshaping American Energy, Land, and Wildlife Policy
JOE RIIS JOE Oil and Gas Industry Investments in the National Rifle Association and Safari Club International Reshaping American Energy, Land, and Wildlife Policy By Matt Lee-Ashley April 2014 WWW.AMERICANPROGRESS.ORG Oil and Gas Industry Investments in the National Rifle Association and Safari Club International Reshaping American Energy, Land, and Wildlife Policy By Matt Lee-Ashley April 2014 Contents 1 Introduction and summary 3 Oil and gas industry investments in three major sportsmen groups 5 Safari Club International 9 The National Rifle Association 11 Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation 13 Impact of influence: How the oil and gas industry’s investments are paying off 14 Threats to endangered and threatened wildlife in oil- and gas-producing regions 19 Threats to the backcountry 22 Threats to public access and ownership 25 Conclusion 27 About the author and acknowledgments 28 Endnotes Introduction and summary Two bedrock principles have guided the work and advocacy of American sports- men for more than a century. First, under the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, wildlife in the United States is considered a public good to be conserved for everyone and accessible to everyone, not a commodity that can be bought and owned by the highest bidder.1 Second, since President Theodore Roosevelt’s creation of the first wildlife refuges and national forests, sportsmen have fought to protect wildlife habitat from development and fragmentation to ensure healthy game supplies. These two principles, however, are coming under growing fire from an aggressive and coordinated campaign funded by the oil and gas industry. As part of a major effort since 2008 to bolster its lobbying and political power, the oil and gas industry has steadily expanded its contributions and influ- ence over several major conservative sportsmen’s organizations, including Safari Club International, or SCI, the National Rifle Association, or NRA, and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. -
Understanding Firearm Values and Condition
GUN VALUE GUIDE Understanding firearm values and condition Fla9-2.fm Page 27 Friday, October 19, 2007 6:29 PM I: Collecting Firearms Values and Condition asic to the understanding of the monetary value of photographs, there can often be great variances in price within a antique arms is the fact that stated figures are purely single model or type—which to the casual observer all look alike. B arbitrary, and there is no such thing as a fixed price. The A slight difference in markings, placement of screws or discussion of gun values is highly subjective—as often are the seemingly minor parts all play highly important roles in values themselves. Social and emotional factors often affect an identification. The reader is urged to check all these minor object’s worth and in some cases to a very great degree. Rarely technical points in the text accompanying each model after he indeed will two experts look at a specimen and arrive at the exact has identified his piece from the illustration accompanying that same dollar value for it. With the more often encountered guns, text. To repeat again, the mere fact that a gun does not appear those same two experts most likely would arrive at a price listed in this work (or is apparently unique) does not necessarily within 10 percent of each other; the disparity would rarely be indicate it is either a priceless rarity or an unknown model. One more than 20 percent. A number of reasons account for the should conclude that the specific piece certainly possesses an seeming lack of consistency in this hobby as opposed to the more interesting potential and is well worth further research into its clear cut, definable fields of coins, stamps or books. -
United States District Court for the District of Columbia American
Case 1:18-cv-02388 Document 1 Filed 10/17/18 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, 555 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20001 GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE, Case No. 268 Bush Street #555, San Francisco, CA 94104 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36104 Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, 400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20202 Defendant. COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF 1. Plaintiffs American Federation of Teachers, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and Southern Poverty Law Center bring this action against Defendant U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) to compel compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (“FOIA”). 2. Education Secretary Elisabeth DeVos recently gave the green light to states and local school districts to use federal grant funds from the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program to purchase firearms and firearms training for teachers and other school staff—an unlawful use of these funds. Case 1:18-cv-02388 Document 1 Filed 10/17/18 Page 2 of 8 3. The information sought by Plaintiffs’ FOIA requests, which will shed light on whether lobbyists associated with the firearms industry or gun-lobby groups including the National Rifle Association were involved in the Department’s decision and reveal communications between the Department and states or local school districts and within the Department concerning the use of these funds to arm teachers, is plainly of great public importance. 4. Yet, despite the pressing need for this information, Defendant has failed to comply with its statutory obligations to respond within the legally required time period. -
Final Report
Jamaican Justice System Reform Task Force Final Report June 2007 Jamaican Justice System Reform Task Force (JJSRTF) Prof. Barrington Chevannes, Chair The Hon. Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe, O.J. (Chief Justice of Jamaica) Mrs. Carol Palmer, J.P. (Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice) Mr. Arnaldo Brown (Ministry of National Security) DCP Linval Bailey (Jamaica Constabulary Force) Mr. Dennis Daly, Q.C. (Human Rights Advocate) Rev. Devon Dick, J.P. (Civil Society) Mr. Eric Douglas (Public Sector Reform Unit, Cabinet Office) Mr. Patrick Foster (Attorney-General’s Department) Mrs. Arlene Harrison-Henry (Jamaican Bar Association) Mrs. Janet Davy (Department of Correctional Services) Mrs. Valerie Neita Robertson (Advocates Association) Miss Lisa Palmer (Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions) The Hon. Mr. Justice Seymour Panton, C.D. (Court of Appeal) Ms. Donna Parchment, C.D., J.P. (Dispute Resolution Foundation) Miss Lorna Peddie (Civil Society) Miss Hilary Phillips, Q.C. (Jamaican Bar Association) Miss Kathryn M. Phipps (Jamaica Labour Party) Mrs. Elaine Romans (Court Administrators) Mr. Milton Samuda/Mrs. Stacey Ann Soltau-Robinson (Jamaica Chamber of Commerce) Mrs. Jacqueline Samuels-Brown (Advocates Association) Mrs. Audrey Sewell (Justice Training Institute) Miss Melissa Simms (Youth Representative) Mr. Justice Ronald Hugh Small, Q.C. (Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica) Her Hon. Ms. Lorraine Smith (Resident Magistrates) Mr. Carlton Stephen, J.P. (Lay Magistrates Association) Ms. Audrey Thomas (Public Sector Reform Unit, Cabinet Office) Rt. Rev. Dr. Robert Thompson (Church) Mr. Ronald Thwaites (Civil Society) Jamaican Justice System Reform Project Team Ms. Robin Sully, Project Director (Canadian Bar Association) Mr. Peter Parchment, Project Manager (Ministry of Justice) Dr. -
C00490045 Restore Our Future, Inc. $4116274
Independent Expenditure Table 2 Committees/Persons Reporting Independent Expenditures from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 ID # Committee/Individual Amount C00490045 RESTORE OUR FUTURE, INC. $4,116,274 C00499731 MAKE US GREAT AGAIN, INC $3,793,524 C00501098 OUR DESTINY PAC $2,323,481 C00000935 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE $1,759,111 C00495028 HOUSE MAJORITY PAC $1,073,851 C00487363 AMERICAN CROSSROADS $1,016,349 C00075820 NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE $810,157 C00507525 WINNING OUR FUTURE $788,381 C00442319 REPUBLICAN MAJORITY CAMPAIGN $710,400 C00503417 RED WHITE AND BLUE FUND $573,680 C00448696 SENATE CONSERVATIVES FUND $479,867 C90012758 CITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC. $475,000 C00484642 MAJORITY PAC $471,728 C00495861 PRIORITIES USA ACTION $306,229 C00495010 CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT BARACK OBAMA $266,432 C00499020 FREEDOMWORKS FOR AMERICA $241,542 C00504241 9-9-9 FUND $226,530 C00498261 RESTORING PROSPERITY FUND $202,873 C00503870 RETHINK PAC $156,000 C00432260 CLUB FOR GROWTH PAC $145,459 C90011057 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE $142,841 C00454074 OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG $141,526 C00473918 WOMEN VOTE! $133,976 C00508317 LEADERS FOR FAMILIES SUPER PAC INC $122,767 C00488486 COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA WORKING VOICES $107,000 C00492116 COOPERATIVE OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS IE COMMITTEE $102,184 C90011230 AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK INC $96,694 C00348540 1199 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INT'L UNION FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION FUND $83,975 C00505081 STRONG AMERICA NOW SUPER PAC -
Policy Solutions to Address Mass Shootings
POLICY BRIEF Policy Solutions to Address Mass Shootings Michael Rocque Grant Duwe Michael Siegel James Alan Fox Max Goder-Reiser Emma E. Fridel August 2021 1 SYNOPSIS This project was supported by grant #2018-75-CX-0025, awarded by the In the past decade, mass shootings, National Institute of Justice, Office of particularly those that take place Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, in public areas, have increasingly and conclusions or recommendations become part of the national expressed in this publication are those conversation in the United States. of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Mass public shootings instill Justice. widespread fear, in part because of their seeming randomness and unpredictability. Yet when these incidents occur, which has been with somewhat greater frequency and lethality as of late, public calls for ABOUT THE AUTHORS policy responses are immediate. In Michael Rocque is an associate this policy brief, we review efforts professor of sociology at Bates to evaluate the effect of gun control College measures on mass public shootings, Grant Duwe is the director of research and evaluation at the including a discussion of our recently Minnesota Department of Corrections published study on the relationship Michael Siegel is a member of the between state gun laws and the Regional Gun Violence Research incidence and severity of these Consortium and a professor in the Department of Community Health shootings. The findings of this work Sciences at the Boston University point to gun permits and bans on School of Public Health large capacity magazines as having James Alan Fox is the Lipman promise in reducing (a) mass public family professor of criminology, law, shooting rates and (b) mass public and public policy at Northeastern University shooting victimization, respectively. -
Duelling in America, Ed
Violence, Masculinity, Image, and Reality on the Antebellum Frontier RYAN L. DEARINGER It is a permanent and universal interest of mankind that men should not kill each other; but the particular and momentary interest of a nation or class may in certain cases make homicide excusable or even honorable. Honor is nothing but this particular rule, based on a par- ticular state ofsociety, by means of which a people distributes praise or blame. -ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ocqueville, perhaps the most prophetic and certainly the most cited T nineteenth-century foreign observer of American life, had more to say about the image, reality, and significance of violence than scholars have rec- ognized. Like many of his contemporaries who observed Jacksonian America, he was puzzled by the ambiguous relationship between honor, violence, and social class, particularly as it played out in the ritual of the duel. The refusal of a challenge to duel, Tocqueville noted, was the only act he knew to be considered both honorable and dishonorable. Viewing Ryan L. Dearinger is a history graduate student at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. A portion of this paper was presented at the Paul Lucas Conference in History, hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, on April 12, 2003. 1 first wish to thank three great mentors: Mark David Hall, Kerry Irish, and Ralph Beebe of George Fox University I am particularly indebted to Nancy Gabin for her insights, guidance, and confidence in my work. Additional thanks go to John Lauritz Larson for immeasurable wit and joyful criticism in all matters, and to Michael A. -
Online Media and the 2016 US Presidential Election
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Faris, Robert M., Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Nikki Bourassa, Ethan Zuckerman, and Yochai Benkler. 2017. Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Research Paper. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33759251 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA AUGUST 2017 PARTISANSHIP, Robert Faris Hal Roberts PROPAGANDA, & Bruce Etling Nikki Bourassa DISINFORMATION Ethan Zuckerman Yochai Benkler Online Media & the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper is the result of months of effort and has only come to be as a result of the generous input of many people from the Berkman Klein Center and beyond. Jonas Kaiser and Paola Villarreal expanded our thinking around methods and interpretation. Brendan Roach provided excellent research assistance. Rebekah Heacock Jones helped get this research off the ground, and Justin Clark helped bring it home. We are grateful to Gretchen Weber, David Talbot, and Daniel Dennis Jones for their assistance in the production and publication of this study. This paper has also benefited from contributions of many outside the Berkman Klein community. The entire Media Cloud team at the Center for Civic Media at MIT’s Media Lab has been essential to this research. -
Thursday April 6, 1995
4±6±95 Thursday Vol. 60 No. 66 April 6, 1995 Pages 17433±17624 Briefings on How To Use the Federal Register For information on briefings in Washington, DC, and Salt Lake City, UT, see announcement on the inside cover of this issue. federal register 1 II Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 66 / Thursday, April 6, 1995 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND COPIES PUBLIC Subscriptions: Paper or fiche 202±512±1800 FEDERAL REGISTER Published daily, Monday through Friday, Assistance with public subscriptions 512±1806 (not published on Saturdays, Sundays, or on official holidays), by Online: the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Telnet swais.access.gpo.gov, login as newuser <enter>, no Administration, Washington, DC 20408, under the Federal Register > Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15) and the password <enter ; or use a modem to call (202) 512±1661, login as swais, no password <enter>, at the second login as regulations of the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register > > (1 CFR Ch. I). Distribution is made only by the Superintendent of newuser <enter , no password <enter . Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Assistance with online subscriptions 202±512±1530 20402. Single copies/back copies: The Federal Register provides a uniform system for making Paper or fiche 512±1800 available to the public regulations and legal notices issued by Assistance with public single copies 512±1803 Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders and Federal agency documents having general FEDERAL AGENCIES applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published Subscriptions: by act of Congress and other Federal agency documents of public interest. -
ED 091 136 INSTITUTION PUB DATE DOCUMENT RESUME RC 007 900 Smith, Julian W., Comp. Shooting and Hunting: Instructor's Guide
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 091 136 RC 007 900 AUTHOR Smith, Julian W., Comp. TITLE Shooting and Hunting: Instructor's Guide. INSTITUTION American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 60 NOTE 94p.; For related documents, see RC 007 899 and RC 007 901-903 EDRS PRICE MF-$0.75 HC-$4.20 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS Audiovisual Aids; Curriculum; *Equipment; Field Instruction; Games; History; Literature; Organizations (Groups); *Outdoor Education; *Recreational Activities; Resource Materials; Safety; Sportsmanship; *Teaching Guides; *Techniques IDENTIFIERS Hunting; *Shooting ABSTRACT The shooting and hunting manual, part of a series of books and pamphlets on outdoor education, explains shooting skills, hunting, and proper gun handling on the range and in the field. This manual should be supplemented and enriched by available references, facilities, and resources. It may be included in the community's educational and leisure-related activities. Topics are: (1) a brief 'history of guns through the ages;(2) shooting skills,ammunition, gun parts and types, and safety and range procedures; (3) informal and organized shooting games; (4) rifle clubs, shotgun activities, shooting clinics, and the school curriculum;(5) firing ranges; (6) equipment; (7) gun handling; and (8) training aids. Definitions of shooting and hunting terms and a list of reference books, articles, and films are included. (NQ) INSTRUCT'OR'S GUI DE SHOOTEN4IUNTING American Association for Health, U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF Physical Education, EDUCATION .'S DOCUMENT HAS REARREPRO DICED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM '.E PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN and Recreation ..TING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OP:N.ONS ;ATE0 DO NOT NECESSARIL, ER OFFICIAL NATIONAL INS- "tI Or ED,J,AT.Ory POSITION OR POI CY Prepared by AA HPER Committee under the Supervision of PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPY. -
The Influence of Gun Control Legislation on Rampage Shootings
University of Central Florida STARS HIM 1990-2015 2015 The Influence of Gun Control Legislation on Rampage Shootings Andrew D. Manor University of Central Florida Part of the Legal Studies Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015 University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIM 1990-2015 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Manor, Andrew D., "The Influence of Gun Control Legislation on Rampage Shootings" (2015). HIM 1990-2015. 1872. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/1872 THE INFLUENCE OF GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION ON RAMPAGE SHOOTINGS by ANDREW D. MANOR A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors in the Major Program in Legal Studies in the College of Health and Public Affairs and in The Burnett Honors College at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Fall Term 2015 Thesis Chair: Dr. James Beckman Abstract The United States has experienced several mass shootings in the past few years. It has been averaging one shooting every week in 2015, and something must be done about it. This problem appears to be limited to the United States since several other nations have been able to minimize, and almost eliminate the number of mass shootings. By taking an analysis of the gun laws of the United States with those of Australia and Canada it can be concluded that some aspects of strict gun control can reduce the number of mass shootings. -
The Civil War & the Northern Plains: a Sesquicentennial Observance
Papers of the Forty-Third Annual DAKOTA CONFERENCE A National Conference on the Northern Plains “The Civil War & The Northern Plains: A Sesquicentennial Observance” Augustana College Sioux Falls, South Dakota April 29-30, 2011 Complied by Kristi Thomas and Harry F. Thompson Major funding for the Forty-Third Annual Dakota Conference was provided by Loren and Mavis Amundson CWS Endowment/SFACF, Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, Tony and Anne Haga, Carol Rae Hansen, Andrew Gilmour and Grace Hansen-Gilmour, Carol M. Mashek, Elaine Nelson McIntosh, Mellon Fund Committee of Augustana College, Rex Myers and Susan Richards, Rollyn H. Samp in Honor of Ardyce Samp, Roger and Shirley Schuller in Honor of Matthew Schuller, Jerry and Gail Simmons, Robert and Sharon Steensma, Blair and Linda Tremere, Richard and Michelle Van Demark, Jamie and Penny Volin, and the Center for Western Studies. The Center for Western Studies Augustana College 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ........................................................................................................................................................... v Anderberg, Kat Sailing Across a Sea of Grass: Ecological Restoration and Conservation on the Great Plains ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Anderson, Grant Sons of Dixie Defend Dakota .......................................................................................................... 13 Benson, Bob The