February 7, 2022
Highlighting Longstanding Conservation Partnerships with Industries, State Agencies and USFWS
NEWTOWN, Conn. — NSSF®, The Trade Association for the Firearm Industry, has added Video 4[1], Power of Partnership, to its Partner with a Payer® website. This latest release features representatives from several state and federal fish and wildlife agencies, the firearm industry and the archery industry.
The video was filmed during the Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (NEAFWA) annual conference in September 2021. Content addressed in the Power of Partnership[2] focuses on the resulting benefits produced by this irreplaceable industry-paid and agency-implemented excise tax funding sourced by firearm, ammunition and archery manufacturers on their products. Outstanding accomplishments have been achieved by the partnership of these workforces. Their passion, their enthusiasm is overwhelmingly evident – and infectious in a very good way! The workers on both sides of this story are gaining a new appreciation and enlightened understanding of what their partners in this wildlife and conservation effort do to make it work.
NSSF participates in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Partner with a Payer initiative to help strengthen ties between all excise tax-paying manufacturers—firearms and ammunition, archery equipment, marine and sportfishing equipment—and the state agencies that use these funds to conserve wildlife and habitats through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program of USFWS. Tom Decker, Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, would like every manufacturer to know that the funds they pay into excise taxes have literally changed the nature of America. Hear his full message in the video.
Since 1937 when the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act was enacted (today better known as the Pittman-Robertson Act), the manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and archery equipment have been
