The Satuit Nimrod

Dues notices have been sent out and we are receiving a steady stream of renewals for our upcoming fiscal year which begins on September 1st. Your dues must be brought current by that date. Failure to pay dues by September 1st will result in your range access fob being deactivated and you will pay non-member rates for Skeet and Trap. If you joined the club after June 1st, you are considered carried-over until next year and owe no dues at this time. 

You may reinstate your membership and retain your seniority by paying your dues plus a $25 late fee until November 1st, after which you will have to rejoin the club as a new member by paying the current dues plus the $50 initiation fee.

We have two meetings in September. The first is on September 2nd, note that this is the first Tuesday of the month rather than Monday which is Labor Day. This is the meeting at which nominations for elected office are closed. If you want to run for office, either write your name on the board in the clubhouse or contact our Nominations Chairman, Tom McCusker, before he makes the motion to close nominations. The second meeting takes place on September 15th and is the night of our Annual Meeting and Election of Officers. This is also the meeting when we change the locks and distribute new keys which are now free for the first key and $10 for a replacement key.

Skeet and Trap

Skeet will be shooting on the remaining Wednesdays in August from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm, courtesy of the Coffee Club. The regular Sunday and Wednesday schedule will resume in September.

Trap is  shooting on Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings. See the Calendar section below for times.

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Cowboy Action Match held on  Sunday,  July 13th attracted six shooters. The next match is scheduled for Sunday, August 10, starting at 10:00 am; briefing at 9:30 am.

Our Gunnysackers are busy shooting at various locations in New England. They participated in the Vermont State Shoot in July and came home with several awards. On August 3rd they were at the Harvard, MA club and will be in NH the week starting August 10th for the NH state match. 

Pistol

The Steel Plate Shoot held on Saturday, July 26th attracted 15 shooters. The course of fire was Auto-Reset Popper Plates, Pepper Poppers and a Texas Star. The shooters competed in a variety of categories: Revolver w/Iron Sights, Pistol w/Iron Sights, Pistol w/Optical Sights. Two relays were shot. Winners were:

Relay 1

Revolver Iron Sights

1st. Ron Rice – 69.35 sec.

2nd, Mia Trout (Junior, guest) – 316.14 sec.

Pistol Iron Sights

1st. Zack Kerland – 40.44 sec.

2nd. Devlin Trout – 58.86 sec.

3rd. Dick Martin – 62.04 sec.

Pistol Optical Sights

1st. Chris Popham (Guest) – 28.31 sec.

2nd. Jason Murphy – 70.08 sec.

3rd. Paul Fig. – 75.13 sec.

Relay 2

Revolver Iron Sights

1st. Devlin Trout – 115.04 sec.

Pistol Iron Sights

1st. Zack Kerland – 42.83 sec.

2nd. Mike Guiducci – 52.74 sec.

3rd. Dick Martin – 68.34 sec.

Pistol Optical Sights

1st. Chris Popham (Guest) – 22.55 sec.

2nd. Jason Murphy – 52.33 sec.

3rd. Paul Fig. – 54.10 sec.

Everyone had a great time, so expect to see variants of this format popping up on a regular basis.  At press time, a date and format for a Pistol Match in August had not been determined.  An email blast will be sent when a date/format is known.

Building and Lands

The Building and Lands Chairman requests that if you have to drive down-range on the old 100 yard range, please stay to the far right for as long as possible.

The woodshed is empty! Before we get into the colder weather, we need to split logs and refill the woodshed for the coming Winter. The time-frame for this activity looks like it will be towards the end of September; a notice will be send when a date is known. 

Quotes of the Month

"When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk."

~ Donald Trump

"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions."

~ Winston Churchill 

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."

~ Suzanna Hupp — Survivor of the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria shooting

Historic Lawsuit Filed Against the ATF and Justice Department Challenging the 1934 National Firearms Act

This article appeared in News2A Team on August 23, 2025.

On August 1, a coalition of gun rights groups challenged the century-old National Firearms Act (NFA) that many consider to be the most significant infringement of Second Amendment rights in modern times.

Plaintiffs Chris Brown, Allen Mayville, and Prime Protection are joined by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and American Suppressor Association. Brown v. ATF was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The suit also names as defendants Daniel P. Driscoll, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the ATF, the United States Department of Justice, and Pamela J. Bondi, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States.

This suit, and its timing, have massive significance for several reasons. The NFA, enacted in 1934, imposes unconstitutional taxes on civil liberties and registration requirements on certain firearms like machine guns, short-barreled rifles, and suppressors. It uses arbitrary and capricious criteria, such as barrel length, to regulate firearms, and effectively chills the ability to use hearing safety equipment under both regulation and taxation – something that even liberal European countries don’t do. In fact, this week, Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States, legalized suppressors.

Also significant is the Executive Order that President Trump signed in February, directing Pam Bondi, the head of the Justice Department, to “…examine… executive departments and agencies to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens, and present a proposed plan of action to the President.”

Just a few weeks ago, Congress passed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” that removed the tax component of the NFA, but fell short of completely deregulating these items – a move that the Second Amendment community has strongly criticized. The new lawsuit may be the only effective way to challenge the NFA.

The lawsuit actually hinges on the congressional action that removed the tax:

This regulatory regime no longer comports with Congress’s Constitutionally enumerated powers. While the NFA’s regulations may have been permissible in support of the statute’s taxes on making and transferring firearms, that justification no longer remains for items whose making and transfer are no longer taxed. To the extent that the NFA imposes requirements on making, transferring, receiving, possessing, or otherwise using untaxed firearms, it cannot be justified as an exercise of any other Article I power. Accordingly, the NFA is unconstitutional as to the untaxed firearms.

Additionally, the suit challenges the legality of the NFA under the 2022 Bruen framework, which strikes at the heart of the restrictions, challenging what is in essence the portion of the Second Amendment that states, “shall not be infringed”:

Wholly apart from the NFA’s Constitutional infirmity in the above respect, the NFA’s remaining restrictions constitute an unconstitutional regulatory scheme as pertains to suppressors and short-barreled rifles under the Second Amendment. Under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms presumptively protects the People’s right to keep and bear all arms. If an item qualifies as an “arm,” the Second Amendment applies to it, and the government bears the burden of proving, at the minimum, that there is a historical tradition of regulating arms to support the challenged regulatory scheme.

“The National Firearms Act has been a weight around the neck of law-abiding gun owners for nearly a century,” said Knox Williams, President and Executive Director of the American Suppressor Association, in a press release. “With the elimination of the excise tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and AOWs through the One Big Beautiful Bill, our lawsuit challenges the NFA as an unconstitutional registry of now untaxed firearms. Common sense and the law are on our side, and we look forward to fighting on behalf of all Americans in Federal Court.”

“The National Firearms Act has infringed on law-abiding Americans’ right to keep and bear arms for nearly a century,” said John Commerford, Executive Director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. “Congress took a major step by eliminating the NFA tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms through the OBBB, and we’re proud to work alongside other leading Second Amendment organizations to finish the job.”

Other major legal challenges have been brought against the NFA, without much avail. In the 1939 United States v. Miller case, the Supreme Court upheld the NFA, ruling that the Second Amendment protects only weapons with a reasonable relation to a well-regulated militia. Then again, in 1968, Haynes v. United States challenged the NFA’s registration requirements for felons, arguing they violated the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, exempting felons from registration, but this did not invalidate the NFA as a whole.

Club Calendar.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, September 2nd – 7:00 pm.

MONTHLY MEETING
Tuesday, September 2nd  – 8:00 pm.

SKEET
Sundays: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Wednesdays: 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm until the end of August when the regular schedule resumes.

TRAP

Wednesdays: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Saturdays: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

PISTOL
TBA

COWBOY
Sunday,  August 10th, 9:30 am to 1:00 pm — Cowboy Action Match.

SAFETY COURSE
Tuesday, September 2nd – 7:00 pm & Thursday, September 4th  – 7:00 pm Register here.

RANGE ORIENTATION CLASS
Thursday, July 10th – 5:00 pm Register here.

Thursday, September 4th – 5:00 pm Register here.

…And Finally