PRESIDENTS CORNER 

November 2024

Hello Florida Sport Shooting Association Members,

On behalf of the Board of Directors, “Happy Thanksgiving,” to all our members. We wish you a wonderful holiday as you give thanks and celebrate Thanksgiving with those you hold dear.

Your support makes it possible for the FSSA to educate and train people—boys and girls, men and women, young and young at heart alike—on basic to advanced marksmanship skills. Additionally, through your member dues and donations we are able to support junior shooters as they travel to compete in tournaments outside the state, and FSSA is able to support basic firearm safety and awareness training for women through our affiliated clubs.

I’m very proud of all our shooters, instructors, clubs and our FSSA Directors that work to support FSSA’s shooting programs. Well done!  You make a positive impact to the shooting sports and reinforce the importance of our Second Amendment.

State Championships have occurred for Smallbore Rifle, High Power Rifle, International and Precision Pistol. Thanks to our affiliated ranges for hosting, our match officials for supporting and especially the many shooters for attending. THANK YOU, and I look forward to announcing our 2024 state champions at our annual members meeting in January.

A reminder that the 2024 NRA F-Class Mid-Range Full-Bore National Championships will be hosted by Port Malabar Rifle and Pistol Club (PMRPC), December12-15, 2024. Paul Brunton is PMRPC’s Rifle Director and Match Director for the F-Class Mid-Range National Championship. If you or anyone you know is an F-Class competitor, I highly encourage you to register for this championship. Match Program and Registration are available at: www.pmrpcrifle.com. If you are interested in helping with the championships, please contact Paul Brunton at rifle@pmrpc.com. Your help as a volunteer and/or your participation as a competitor are much appreciated. I look forward to a safe and highly successful national championship run by PMRPC.

Please don't hesitate to contact me or any of your officers and directors with questions or comments (https://flssa.org/Contact). We're here to serve our members and our member clubs. If you would like to consider being a part of your state association’s Board of Directors, please contact me. We have open positions and can use your expertise and leadership.

To all our members, have a great Thanksgiving!

And after Thanksgiving…I encourage you to enjoy some quality shooting time, at the range or in the field, hunting or putting rounds on your favorite target, taking a firearm training course or teaching the fundamentals of firearm safety to a class or just one person. Exercise your 2A freedoms.

Sincerely,

Ted

Ted Carter

President - Florida Sport Shooting Association

FSSA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. The FSSA website has a link for members and non-members to make a charitable contribution to our state association, and your gift may be tax deductible. Please consider a year end donation at http://www.flssa.org. Click the link "Make a donation to FSSA". The donation can be designated to any of our discipline programs, our junior activities, or our general fund. These activities are designed to promote firearms safety, to enhance marksmanship skills of those participating in the shooting sports, and to support our junior and women's shooting programs.