Members must:
Members not adhering to the above are subject to suspension of membership privileges up to and including expulsion from the club.
Do not attach, hang or post any type of target on the wood posts that support the wire and target backers. In other words, do not shoot at the support posts!
Before [patent law], any man might instantly use what another had invented; the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln Lecture on Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements, before the Springfield Library Association, Springfield, Illinois
Date: February 22, 1860