American Hunters and Shooters Association

American non profit organization
Critics, including the National Rifle Association of America, questioned whether the membership was representative of gun owners and suggested it was a front organization for gun control advocates.

The AHSA described itself as " a national grassroots organization committed to safe and responsible gun ownership" and " a mainstream group of hunters who are looking to belong to a gun owners association that doesn't have a radical agenda", and as a moderate, common sense advocacy organization. It favored most restrictions on firearms, but believed that little progress will be made until gun owners are allowed to bring their common sense perspective to the table. In March 2008, Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke stated that he saw his organization's issues "as complementary to" those of the AHSA. Despite the similarity in name, AHSA had no ties to the field marksmanship promoting organization, the Hunter's Shooting Association (HSA).

AHSA joined in the amicus curiae brief of Maj. Gen. John D. Altenburg Jr., et al., in the Supreme Court case of D. C. v Heller, arguing that the individual right of the people to keep and bear arms enhances the collective goal of supporting national defense, and that the dichotomy between individual right argued by Heller and collective militia right argued by D. C. is false: the Second Amendment protects both.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) criticized the AHSA for its members' associations with other gun control organizations and gun control legislation. NRA ILA Executive Director Chris Cox characterized the AHSA as "the latest front group for the anti gun movement." In August 2005, the NRA said about the AHSA "they want to allow the FBI to keep records on law abiding citizens who buy guns and put an end to gun shows as we know them. Not to mention the fact that they want to regulate .50 caliber rifles in the same way that machine guns are regulated."