The Winners of the 34th Annual Telly Awards have been announced and American Trigger Sports Network’s (ATSN) “Stop the Threat – Home Alone” was honored with a Bronze People’s Telly Award. The internet community and the growing number of fans for American Trigger Sports Network’s gun-related sports, training, and self-defense programming are responsible for deciding this high honor.

ATSN’s “Stop the Threat” series has been growing in popularity since it’s premiere episode in 2012. With more citizens, legal gun owners and viewers becoming interested in protecting themselves and their families in the current political climate, Stop the Threat has opened the conversation for a previously neglected subject that could help save lives. This series hosts a round table of expert guest panelists, including self-defense, law and other professionals, moderated by host James B. Towle, as they analyze dramatic, life-threatening, crime scenes reenacted from real crime scenarios happening across the country.

Stop the Threat’s Home Alone episode focuses on a child trained to use a handgun, a controversial subject.  It depicts how a young girl was able to protect herself when an intruder enters the house while she is home alone. Firearms self-dense expert Rob Pincus, Martial Artist Kelly Muir, and Trainer/Instructor Steve Vandermolen comment. Suggestions include ways to further secure the situation and the home. Each Stop the Threat episode focuses on varying real-life scenarios that can happen to anyone and focuses on preparing the viewer in the event they are confronted with an unwanted like encounter. Host James B. Towle advises, “Be safe …be trained …be alert!”

Full episodes of ATSN’s Stop the Threat can be viewed at www.ATSN.tv, www.StoptheThreat.tv, and at www.YouTube.com/atsntv.

ATSN shooters and fans voted online via ATSN’s newsletter and via ATSN’s Facebook fanpage at www.facebook.com/atsntv as well as through Twitter accounts @ATSNtv and @JamesBTowle.

It is thanks to ATSN’s loyal viewers, fans, shooters, fellow outdoorsmen, and affiliates that ATSN can be grateful and proud to now be a five-time Telly Award Winner–adding this statuette to previous wins!

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“The Telly Awards has a mission to honor the very best in film and video,” said Linda Day, Executive Director of the Telly Awards. “ATSN’s accomplishment illustrates their creativity, skill, and dedication to their craft and serves as a testament to great film and video production.”

ATSN was born from the already popular radio series Trigger Sports Radio, hosted by James B. Towle. Towle wanted to bring the world of trigger sports to a whole new level by introducing a television show with exclusive coverage from shooting events around the country. Premiering as a live web television series entitled “Trigger Sports LIVE!”, the network now also hosts two series available on DirecTV and DISH Network on the Pursuit Channel, “ATSN Trigger Sports TV” and “Stop the Threat” airing on Fridays at 6:00pm PST and 9:00pm EST.

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