Ruger Firearms has helped MidwayUSA Foundation gather more than one million dollars for youth shooting team endowments. The Columbia, Missouri group matches every gift to those endowments, invests the principal, and pays annual grants so participating teams keep a continuing funding base. Joint fundraising with Ruger produced the contributions now aiding programs nationwide.

Those funds help teams pay for ammunition, equipment, travel, and contests. Sturm, Ruger & Company, founded in 1949, makes firearms for the sporting market and supports groups that bring young people into shooting sports.