It is the mission of the national skeet shooting association to foster national and international amateur sports competition in shotgun target shooting, particularly skeet and psorting CLAY shooting by (1) educating individuals in proper conduct and effective techniques of shotgun target shooting and the safe effective handling of shotguns;(2) assisting other organizations in promoting amateur shotgun target shooting by maintaining a standard SET of rules and regulations, keeping records, and publicizing activities; (3) sponsoring an annual world skeet shooting and national sporting clays championship; and (4) publishing a monthly magazine called CLAY target nation.