Due to the gun industry’s largesse!? WTF are they talking about? Did something radically change in collegiate shooting funding? I certainly don’t remember any gun industry money when I was shooting in college and my team went to the NCAA championships every year.
I took my daughter shooting shotgun for the first time last December. She loved it. The range has a youth club (trap, skeet, sporting clays) that gets a lot of support from the industry. She joined and shoots free (100 birds) and four free boxes of shells supplied by various manufacturers.
Sort of like the drug dealers giving out free samples to the kids. And yes, she is addicted to shooting now!