Text Box: WYOMING STATE SHOOTING ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER Aug-Oct 2008 Text Box: ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President Mark Spungin, POBox 94 Guernsey WY 82214 836-2188 marks@champmail.com Vice President Beverly Spungin POBox 94 Guernsey WY 82214 836-2188 beverlys@champmail.com Sec/treasurer Roger Sebesta 625 Sweetwater St., Lander WY 82520 335-9323 wssa@wyoming.com Competitions Roy Bane 4232 Kerry Lynne Ln, Laramie WY 82070 755-5766 roy@vcn.com Hunting/Conservation Peter Moore 103 Hwy 59, Douglas WY 82633 358-4467 hunter10359@msn.com Junior programs Dudley Irvine 1070 McDougal, Lander WY 82520 332-2811w dirvine@wyoming.com Legislative Richard Bohling 1802 Sheridan St., Laramie WY 82070 745-6419 rbohling@lariat.org Our web site myweb.wyoming.com/~wssa or wyossa.com Text Box: PRESIDENT'S COLUMN At the risk of appearing crass and self-serving, I would like to announce that my novel Neither Predator Nor Prey will be going to the printer before you receive this newsletter. Actually NPNP is as much your book as it is mine. If I did not believe that at least a small number of Wyoming gun owners will do the right thing when the time comes, I would not have bothered to write the book. With the incredibly poor choice of presidential candidates foisted upon us, the scenario played out in NPNP appears to be an increasingly likely one. The Senate ratifies the UN Global Gun Ban Treaty and Wyoming tells the Senate just what they can do with it. This is not necessarily a doomed, hopeless exercise in futility as some of you may initially believe. With the upcoming economic collapse and the almost universal loathing of politicians, resistance is NOT futile. If you care to think about it, a future War on Guns will be planned, organized, and conducted by the same geniuses (and their replacement geniuses) who brought you Alcohol Prohibition, the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, Mogadishu Madness, the Invasion of Haiti, FEMA's response to Katrina, the Hunt For Bin Laden, the Four Corners Fools Carnival, TSA, the DC Sniper Debacle, the list goes on virtually forever. If past performance is any indicator of future performance, those on the wrong side of the War on Guns will be poorly trained, poorly led, and poorly motivated. They will have little to no public support and there will be neither loyalty up nor loyalty down. They can be defeated. So, do not despair but rather think of the ancient proverb, "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on." A contemporary paraphrase might be, "The politicians Text Box: bark, but we continue to go about our business." Pay no more heed to the DC dogs of today than the ancient caravans paid to those long deceased desert dogs of yesteryear. Mark Spungin Text Box: HELP NEEDED Help is requested to set up and staff the air rifle range at the State Fair in Douglas. Set up on Aug 9th. Phone/email VP Bev to volunteer—PLEASE Then you have another chance at Hunting & Fishing Heritage EXPO in Casper. Set up Sept 10th, staff 11 thru 13. Phone or email Roger Text Box: WSSA FALL MEETING Ramada Inn Pool side 5:30PM Sept 11, 2008 All membership encouraged to attend. Text Box: NEW LIFE MEMBERS welcome and thank you for the support Kain Horn Green River, WY on May 6 Kate Schaumann Cheyenne, WY on May 23 Shea Schaumann Cheyenne, WY on May 23 Text Box: NEW WEB SITE Webmaster Ed has the new site underway. Check it out wyossa.com. Suggestions for items??