{"id":309,"date":"2018-08-09T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/08\/09\/changes-coming-to-nssf-leadership\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","slug":"changes-coming-to-nssf-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Changes Coming To NSSF Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6989,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/steve-sanetti-b5477718&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6990,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/d3aya7xwz8momx.cloudfront.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/JoeBartozzi.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nSteve Sanetti has been President and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/steve-sanetti-b5477718\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since 2008 and was President of Sturm, Ruger<\/a> before that. The NSSF has announced a succession plan for when Sanetti retires at the end of 2019. Joseph Bartozzi, Executive VP and General Counsel of Mossberg, will become the new President of NSSF on September 10, 2018 with plans that he assume the CEO role on Sanetti&#8217;s 2019 retirement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d3aya7xwz8momx.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JoeBartozzi.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"415\" data-original-width=\"300\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/d3aya7xwz8momx.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JoeBartozzi.jpg\" width=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bartozzi has been with Mossberg for the last 32 years in a variety of positions. He is also the Chairman of the Board of SAAMI and is a NRA certified RSO. You can read more about Bartozzi in the NSSF&#8217;s announcment below.<\/p>\n<p>From NSSF:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>NEWTOWN, Conn. \u2014 The Board of Governors of the National Shooting Sports Foundation\u00ae (NSSF\u00ae), the trade association to the firearms industry, today announced that O.F. Mossberg &amp; Son\u2019s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Joseph Bartozzi, will be the organization\u2019s next President. Bartozzi will assume his new duties Sept. 10, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph BartozziCurrent President and CEO Steve Sanetti will stay on in his CEO capacity through his retirement at the end of 2019, at which point Bartozzi will take over those additional duties.<\/p>\n<p>Bartozzi has spent the majority of his career with Mossberg, joining the company in July 1986. His time with Mossberg included a wide variety of positions, including Quality Engineer, Quality Manager, Product Service Manager, Director of Technical Services, Director of Manufacturing Operations and Corporate Attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Bartozzi currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers\u2019 Institute (SAAMI); Treasurer and Member of NSSF\u2019s Board of Governors; Board Member and Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports (CAHSS); Committee Member for the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM); and Technical Advisor to the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE). He is also certified as a Range Safety Officer (RSO) by the National Rifle Association. Bartozzi was nominated for the 2013 \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d by SHOT Business magazine, a nomination reprised in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Bartozzi was admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. A member of the Connecticut and Maine State Bar Associations, he holds three professional certifications from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and he is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board of Governors agreed that Joe\u2019s unique set of experiences and skills will provide NSSF and the firearms industry with the strong leadership needed to ensure we can continue our mission of promoting, protecting and preserving hunting and the shooting sports for generations to come,\u201d said Robert Scott, Vice Chairman of Smith &amp; Wesson and NSSF\u2019s Board of Governors Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have known Joe Bartozzi for more than 20 years, on both personal and professional levels, and I believe he is an exemplary choice for this important position,\u201d said Sanetti. \u201cI know that he will work extremely hard to further our mission for the benefit of our industry and its customers, and I am very much looking forward to working together with Joe during this transitional period in the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a tremendous career thus far at Mossberg, one for which I\u2019m most thankful,\u201d said Bartozzi. \u201cAs difficult as it is to leave that fine organization after 30 years, it is an honor to now take on a leadership position that will work to successfully conquer the challenges and seize the opportunities before us for the benefit of all our industry members.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sanetti has been President and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation since 2008 and was President of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[805,806,232,807],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joseph-bartozzi","tag-mossberg","tag-nssf","tag-steve-sanetti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11539,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/11539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}