How do America's gun owners and hunters together with gun, ammo, and archery equipment makers fund wildlife research, conservation, restoration and habitat improvement projects that would otherwise be unaffordable? The Partner with a Payer initiative seeks to highlight these enduring partnerships. Many in the firearms industry and the vast majority of the general population are unaware that more than $3.5 billion in excise taxes have been paid by manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and archery equipment in just the past five years -- and more than $13 billion since 1937. These billions of dollars support a large percentage of state wildlife agency budgets, allowing those agencies to conduct wildlife restoration and habitat improvement projects, train tomorrow’s hunters, and develop and maintain public shooting facilities. More: https://www.nssf.org/enduring-partner...