Firearm Safety and Conservation Are Topics of Free Video-for-Schools Campaign from NSSF®

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® has launched its annual nationwide offer to schools nationwide to receive--free of charge--educational videos that teach children about firearm safety and wildlife conservation.

NSSF, the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, has been a leader in firearm safety and conservation education for decades.

The firearm safety videos teach students how to react if they should encounter a firearm in an unsupervised situation. The conservation titles educate students on how wildlife and wild lands are protected, and how hunters support this effort with contributions amounting to more than $1 billion annually.

NSSF believes all teachers and their students, whether in public, private or home schools, can benefit from the important messages in the videos, which are contained on two DVDs. Both the Firearm Safety DVD and Conservation DVD can be ordered online. Each of the individual video titles can be previewed online.

The Firearm Safety DVD offers "McGruff the Crime Dog on Gun Safety" for students in kindergarten through grade 6, "It's Your Call: Playing It Safe Around GunsSM" for students in grades 6 through 9 and "Firearms Safety Depends on YouSM," which covers the ten rules of gun safety and is for audiences of all ages. The first two titles help teach students how to respond if should they encounter a firearm in an unsupervised situation at school, at home or at a friend's home.

The Conservation DVD contains "Wildlife for Tomorrow®," which is designed for students in grades 4 through 7, and two other videos, "The Unendangered Species®" and "What They Say About HuntingSM," which are for students in grades 7 through 12. "Wildlife for Tomorrow" and "The Unendangered Species" tell the story of how game animals such as the wild turkey, white-tailed deer and Rocky Mountain elk were once endangered and have been restored to abundance. "What They Say About Hunting" takes a close look at hunting and its relevance today through a pro-and-con debate.

Teachers in more than 100,000 schools nationwide have shown these videos to students in their classrooms and praised them for handling the topics with sensitivity.

Order or preview the free videos online at http://www.nssf.org/education/video.cfm.