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Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

#254 - Joe Bartozzi - NSSF President and CEO

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Joe is the President and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (“NSSF”), the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (“SAAMI”) and the Chairman of the Project ChildSafe® Foundation. He has spent roughly 40 years in a variety of technical, legal, and executive management roles in the manufacturing sector. Twitter @NSSF @nssfshotshow. Facebook NSSF - https://www.facebook.com/NSSFcomm/ SHOT Show - https://www.facebook.com/nssfshotshow Instagram @thenssf @shotshow LinkedIn NSSF - https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-shooting-sports-foundation SHOT Show - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/shot-show/ YouTube NSSF - https://www.youtube.com/c/nssforg/ SHOT Show - https://www.youtube.com/@shotshow https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter: IG: @blackriflecoffeepodcast Twitter: @brccpodcast #podcast #blackriflecoffee

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0:00.0

That's your attention now, don't I?

0:02.6

This is the Black Rifle Coffee podcast.

0:11.5

For decades, buying a silencer has been difficult.

0:14.4

But in 2005, Silencer Central set out to simplify the suppressor buying process.

0:19.4

So whether you're planning your next hunt or putting together a range day, you'll enjoy every shot you take with silencer Central,

0:25.2

straight to your front door. Awesome. So welcome to the Black Rifle Coffee podcast. Today we have

0:30.6

Joe Bartosi, the CEO of NSSF and the ringleader, you would say, maybe of the shot show. The NSF does own the shot show

0:40.8

and we have a great team that puts it together for us. Yeah. Awesome. I usually start the show

0:45.6

with how do you take your coffee? We hold nothing against you that you're not a coffee drinker.

0:50.0

You had to go there, right? That's how it's going to go. Okay. Yeah, it's bus chops a little bit.

0:53.9

I got you.

0:55.1

Can you break down a little bit?

0:56.9

NSF.

0:57.6

Can you explain that one?

0:58.4

Yeah.

0:59.0

The National Student Sports Foundation is a trade association.

1:02.3

It's made up primarily of firearms, ammunition manufacturers, distributors, dealers,

1:07.5

also accessory companies like scope manufacturers.

1:10.3

We have media folks that are members of

1:12.6

NSSF. We've got about 10,000 plus members representing about 400,000 American jobs, and representing

1:21.3

about $70 billion in the economy for the United States. So it's a big deal. We are, again, we're a business organization, not a consumer group, but we were designed,

1:32.6

we were created in 1961 to try and kind of remind people about the importance of hunting.

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