The Satuit Nimrod

KC's Game Feed

Reserve Saturday, January 24th as this is the date the 46th KC's Annual Game Feed is held. This is the largest event on the club's calendar. Started 46 years ago by Kenny Crowell, the Game Feed has been held continuously since then, with the exception of 2015 when the skeet field was, literally, waist deep in snow.

The event starts at 11:00 am and runs until 4:00 pm. Admission is $40/person, 18 years and under are free. Bring your appetite as there will be game such as venison, goose and duck plus a spit-roasted wild hogs that will be roasted at the club along with hamburgers and hotdogs. Additionally, there will be a Seafood Tent and Raw Bar for those with nautical tastes. 

Skeet and Trap

A big word of thanks goes out to the members who diagnosed and fixed the problems with the Skeet and Trap field. Major contributors were: Mike Sheehan, Greg Morse and Bill Berry. 

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

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Gunnysackers are are on a winter hiatus when it comes to traveling, but will continue to hold matches at our club. The next Cowboy Action Shoot is scheduled for Saturday, January 10th, starting at 9:00 am..

Pistol

The Pistol Committee held a .22 Rimfire Reactive Shoot on Saturday, December 6th. Nine members braved the cold to shoot both handguns and rifles at a mixture of steel targets that reacted in some fashion when hit, plus balloons to pop.

First three finishers were:

Dick Martin – 163
Ed Hunnifeld – 157
Phil Lennon – 139 

The next pistol match is a Miss and Your Out! match on Saturday, January 3rd, starting at noon.

Safety Course

Starting in January, the monthly Safety Course will be given on the first Wednesday and Thursday of the month.

News Around The Club

Attendance at year's Turkey Shoot was down compared to other years. We were competing against the Patriots, who were in an important play-off match, and the Marshfield club who were holding their own Turkey Shoot. Expect next year's event to be held a week earlier.

The closing "…And Finally" graphic was supplied by Ron Rice; thanks Ron!

Quotes of the Month

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man"

~ Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!"

~ Col. Jeff Cooper

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

 ~ George Orwell

Welcome Aboard
Scituate Rod & Gun Club welcomes these new members who have joined us recently:

David Fulton

Kenneth Fulton

Adam Jackson

Julie Jackson

Tyler Judge

Kelsea Judge

Justin Loggia

Dispelling Anti-Gun Disinformation | Here Are 10 Lies About Guns And Crime The Trump Administration Has Exposed

by Mark Chestnut, posted on December 5, 2025 in NRA America's 1st Freedom.

Crime is a major problem in the United States, 66% of Americans believe, with 81% saying it is a major problem in large cities, according to an August 2025 poll by the Associated Press/NORC [previously the National Opinion Research Center]. The poll, which was taken shortly after President Donald Trump (R) cracked down on crime in Washington, D.C., also revealed that most Americans (55%) thought his administration’s use of federal resources was acceptable. Indeed, in the weeks after taking over the D.C. police force, violent crime nearly disappeared on the mean streets of our nation’s capital.

During his term, President Joe Biden (D), through various executive orders and actions, attempted to reshape the nation’s narrative on violent crime and guns. Under Biden, guns were labeled a “public-health crisis.” Additionally, Biden emphasized that violent crime—including incidents where deranged murderers opened fire on innocent victims—was the fault of guns and our freedom, not the killers.

President Trump, in contrast, is showing what the real problems are and how they can be solved. Let’s look at 10 anti-gun lies about crime and our freedom the Trump administration is now revealing.

Lie 1:
Guns Are a “Public-Health Crisis”

The idea that “guns are a public-health crisis” gained currency in 1983 when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to apply a “public-health approach” to issues historically treated as criminal-justice matters. Under this new framework, firearms would be treated like germs spreading a contagious disease.

In June 2024, then-Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring “gun violence” a “public-health crisis.” Murthy presented his ill-advised declaration in a 40-page Surgeon General advisory titled “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America,” in which he repeatedly cited statistics from the many-times-discredited Gun Violence Archive. The move was largely aimed at boosting anti-gun groups’ support for then-President Biden ahead of the 2024 election.

Last March, President Trump corrected the mischaracterization of a criminal issue as a health issue by ordering the removal of Murthy’s anti-gun tract from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website. This action was in response to his “Protecting Second Amendment Rights” executive order, which aimed to identify and eliminate “any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens.”

Lie 2:
Guns Cause Crime

Thanks to John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), we’ve known for decades that more guns lead to less crime. Now, President Trump is demonstrating this. In addition to cracking down on violent D.C. criminals, the Trump administration’s other focus in the District was to speed up the processing of concealed-carry permit applications.

Washington, D.C., was compelled by the courts to implement a “shall-issue” concealed-carry law, but that doesn’t mean D.C. officials made it straightforward or efficient; in fact, they made it so difficult that D.C. ranks near the bottom for the percentage of adults with a carry permit. Since President Trump’s D.C. executive order, the number of permit holders has increased while violent crime has stayed nearly nonexistent.

As the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) put it: “With these actions to ensure law-abiding Americans have tangible and timely access to right-to-carry permits, the Trump administration has demonstrated an informed understanding of the Second Amendment right to bear arms outside the home and a dedication to protecting it in practice.”

Lie 3:
Gun-Control Laws Decrease Crime

Through numerous polls, Americans have expressed how fed up they are with the violent crime that plagues many of the big cities in our country. Politicians in many of these jurisdictions continue to blame firearms for the violence as they push for increasingly restrictive gun laws. The real truth, as President Trump has pointed out, is that increased law-enforcement focus reduces crime.

A research brief published by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund examined homicide trends during the 2020-2022 de-policing period and the subsequent “re-policing” years. The study found that increased policing activities, such as arrests and stops, were associated with lower homicide rates, and that “the sharper the increase in police activity, the greater the fall in homicides across the 15 cities.”

Incidentally, most Americans already understood that, even if anti-Second Amendment politicians haven’t realized it. A CPRC-commissioned poll from December 2024 showed that only 19% of respondents believed that more gun control would decrease crime, while 54% thought the best way was to crack down on criminals by keeping violent offenders off the streets through arrests and detention. The remainder of the lies can be viewed here.

Club Calendar.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

Monday, January 5th – 7:30 pm

MONTHLY MEETING

Monday, January 5th – 8:00 pm

SKEET
Sundays: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Wednesdays: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm.

TRAP

Tuesdays: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Saturdays: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

PISTOL
Saturday, January 3rd – Noon. "Miss and You're Out" match.

COWBOY
Saturday, January 10th, 9:00 am – Cowboy Action Shoot.

KC's GAME FEED
Saturday, January 24th,  11:00 am — 4:00 pm.

SAFETY COURSE
Wednesday, January 7th –7:00 pm & Thursday, January 8th  – 7:00 pm Register here.

RANGE ORIENTATION CLASS
Sunday, January 11th – 9:00 am Register here.

…And Finally