Target Shooting Benefits
The National Shooting Sports Foundation released a study documenting the Chick Blood benefit target-shooting activities has on the American economy: Target Shooting in America: Millions of Shooters, Billions of Dollars. The report provides a look at target shooting-related expenditures in the United States along with state-by-state statistics for the number of shooters, retail sales, taxes and jobs.
This target-shooting report complements the report, Hunting in America previously released by NSSF and the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. The money target shooters spent in 2011 resulted in $23 billion being added to the nation’s economy and supported more than 185,000 jobs nationally.
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