NSSF on Ball
The trade association for the shooting, hunting and firearms industry this week named state Assemblyman Greg Ball. R-Patterson, its Legislator of the Year. You can read the announcement from the National Shooting Sports Foundation after the break.
One reason why the group selected Ball, according to the announcement, was his effort to keep the state’s pheasant-rearing facility open. The farm, run by the Department of Environmental Conservation, raises pheasants, which are released prior to hunting season. Gov. David Paterson planned to close the farm to help close the state’s budget gap, but changed his mind after hunters and their supporters argued otherwise.
Go on to read NSSF’s announcement.
Assemblyman Ball Named 2008 Legislator of the Year by National Shooting Sports Foundation
January 17, 2009
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Orlando, FL,—New York Assemblyman Greg Ball (R-99) was named the 2008 Legislator of the Year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry. Ball received the award at the firearms industry’s annual trade show, named the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Tradeshow (SHOT) Show, which is owned and operated by the NSSF.
“Mr. Ball’s leadership in the New York Assembly has helped to ensure and protect our hunting traditions, firearms freedoms and the livelihood of law-abiding firearms retailers throughout the Empire State,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. “The NSSF is pleased to honor Assemblyman Ball as the 2008 Legislator of the Year and looks forward to continuing a constructive dialogue with him on public policy matters affecting the industry in New York.”
Assemblyman Ball’s leadership and influence was critical in the fight to combat firearms micro stamping in New York. Earlier last year, when legislation was introduced that would have mandated micro stamping – a patented process that laser engraves the firearm’s make, model and serial number on the tip of the gun’s firing pin so that, in theory, it imprints the information on discharged cartridge cases – Ball demonstrated his willingness to go above and beyond by traveling to the New York State Police Headquarters to lead a demonstration against the flawed technology.
Mr. Ball, a strong and vocal advocate of hunting, has also taken the lead in trying to save Reynolds Game Farm from budget cuts. Ball urged Gov. David Patterson to restore funding to the upstate New York farm, declaring, “A decision to close New York’s last remaining pheasant rearing facility, which provides millions in revenue to our economy, without seeking an input from the people who are paying for it—the sportsmen of New York—is disturbing at the least.”
Assemblyman Ball is the first New York legislator to receive this award.
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Good for him.
Ball cannot decide if he loves animals or he wants them all shot and killed. Talk about sitting on the fence and trying to pay both sides.
Just because Ball is a sportsman, doesn’t mean he is not an environmentalist. He can, and is, both.
Ball a sportsman? Isn’t he an animal lover?
Environmentalist? Why doen’t he drive a small econonmic electric car? instead of the hugh gas hog he has?
Ball will take on any cause that gains him popularity.
Jacob,
Your boss, Tom King, spoke out in favor of so-called canned hunts in 2007 rightfully observing that there was no such thing as a canned hunt and that it was all hunting. Yet Assemblyman Greg Ball saw the difference when he recently criticized canned hunts in a Journal News story. How does your organization feel about that?
Also, Ball didn’t become an NRA member until 2007, his first year in office.
What say you about that?