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The U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit has created a Marksmanship Instructor Group and Paralympic Section,
the first-ever Army units designed specifically for wounded warriors deemed able to continue to serve on active duty. Serving in the USAMU will involve raising Army combat readiness by providing the absolute best shooting instruction for all Army units. Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson, Operation Iraqi Freedom combat-wounded veteran and USAMU Paralympian, is the first Active Duty Soldier to be nominated to the U.S. Paralympic Team and will compete in London this summer. |
Clyde Howell 14th annual Youth Shooting Sports Camp for 10-16 year old Boys and Girls.
June 2-3, 2012
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When Congress passed the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) in 1986, one of the key provisions of the bill was intended to protect the rights of gun owners to legally transport their firearms between locations where they are legally allowed to possess them. Some local jurisdictions have chosen to ignore federal law and the courts have upheld the infringements. Many gun owners, for example, have been arrested when trying to check in with firearms for flights out of New York and New Jersey airports. H.R. 4269 would expand the protections afforded travelers to include "staying in temporary lodging overnight, stopping for food, fuel, vehicle maintenance, an emergency, medical treatment, and any other activity incidental" to the trip. (Source: NRA Institute for Legislative Affairs) |
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Steiner's new 5-25x-56mm rifle scope is designed for use on long-range, tactical and sniper rifles.
The line includes a 1-4x-24mm, 3-12x-50mm, 3-12x-56mm and 4-16x-50mm scopes. It features a 34mm one-piece extruded aluminum main tube and broadband anti-reflective coated optics for maximum light transmission. The G2B mil-dot reticle is illuminated and glass-etched and is located on the front focal plane. The digital illumination offers 11 intensity levels (seven night/four day) and a battery-saver position between each level with two OFF-positions at each end. MSRP is $3095.99. |
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The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF)
has notified USA Shooting that it is reallocating an Olympic Quota Spot to USA Shooting after Jamie Gray's (Lebanon, Pa.) double qualification in both Olympic air and smallbore (.22 caliber) rifle events. USA Shooting's double trap competitors are the beneficiaries of the reallocation thereby setting up greater intrigue for this year's double trap competition at the upcoming 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Shotgun, May 17-20.
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Lipsey's has announced the newest addition to their line of Lipsey's exclusive firearms: Glock pistols featuring flat dark Earth frames.
Nine different models will be offered, including the Generation 3 Model 17, 19, 22, and 23, as well as the Generation 4 Model 17, 19, 21, 22, and 23. This will mark the first time that any Glock Generation 4 pistols are offered in a different frame color. |
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Big Easy cops sentenced for
Katrina bridge shooting
The Justice Department announced that five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) were sentenced in connection with the federal civil rights prosecution of a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, leaving two innocent civilians dead and four others seriously wounded. The defendants were also sentenced for their roles in an extensive cover-up of the shooting.
U.S. District Court Judge Kurt Englehardt sentenced those four officers as follows: Sergeant Kenneth Bowen was sentenced to 40 years in prison; Sergeant Robert Gisevius was sentenced to 40 years in prison; Officer Robert Faulcon was sentenced to 65 years in prison; and Officer Anthony Villavaso was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
The fifth officer, Sergeant Arthur "Archie" Kaufman, was a supervisor who was not involved in the shooting, but who helped the other officers cover up what they had done. Kaufman was sentenced to six years in prison.
The four officers were convicted in connection with the shootings of multiple victims, including 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, who died on the bridge. Those four officers and a supervisor, Kaufman, also were convicted of obstructing justice during the subsequent investigations.
The evidence at trial established the officers opened fire with assault rifles and a shotgun, shooting at an unarmed family walking on the east side of the bridge. Police gunfire struck the victims multiple times, wounding a New Orleans couple, their daughter, and their nephew, and killing family-friend James Brissette.
A second shooting occurred several minutes later, on the west side of the Danziger Bridge. After shooting at the Bartholomew family and James Brissette, officers traveled to the other side of the bridge to chase two men-brothers Lance and Ronald Madison-who had run away when the shooting started. Officers caught up to the Madisons on the west side of the bridge where Officer Faulcon used a shotgun to shoot Ronald Madison in the back as Madison was running away. Ronald, a 40-year-old man with severe mental and physical disabilities, died near the base of the bridge.
When the shooting was over, according to witnesses at trial, the officers at the scene immediately started a cover-up. Lance Madison was arrested and falsely charged with eight counts of attempting to kill police officers. Officers collected no guns or shell casings on the day of the shooting, and 30 casings they collected more than a month later were fired by officers rather than civilians. |
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SAFER USA Adds Hand-To-Hand Training
The SAFER USA Personal Protection Division is now offering close quarter, hand-to-hand, self-defense classes taught by Nik Farooqui, SAFER USA's newest instructor and president of Ballistic Fighting Methods. Ballistic Hand To Hand (3 hours), Ballistic Edged Weapons (2 hours)
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Federal judge - Maryland gun law unconstitutional
Until recently, far too many courts have wrongly claimed that because the Supreme Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago only struck down bans on handgun possession in the home, that's all there is to the Second Amendment. In a big win for gun owners' rights in Maryland a federal judge ruled in the case of Woollard v. Sheridan that a key provision of the state's gun laws is unconstitutional. Judge Benson Everett Legg declared that Maryland's requirement for a "good and substantial reason" to obtain a concealed-carry permit violates the Second Amendment protection of the right to keep and bear arms. "The Court finds that the right to bear arms is not limited to the home," Judge Legg wrote in his 23-page ruling. "In addition to self-defense, the right was also understood to allow for militia membership and hunting. To secure these rights, the Second Amendment's protections must extend beyond the home: Neither hunting nor militia training is a household activity and self-defense has to take place wherever [a] person happens to be.'' [Source: NRA-ILA] |
Ill Supreme Court okays Cook County
assault weapon ban challenge
The Illinois Supreme Court has opted to allow a challenge to Cook County's assault weapons ban in a unanimous ruling. Justice Theis delivered the judgment of the court with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. The circuit court of Cook County dismissed the first amended complaint and the appellate court upheld the dismissal. The ordinance outlaws the sale or possession of "any assault weapon or large capacity magazine" and describes several traits such as a protruding grip or a shroud attached to the barrel and specifies several types of guns that are in violation of the ordinance. "It bans the most popular hunting rifles ... that there are in the country," Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, told the Chicago Sun-Times last Wednesday. Plaintiffs, Matthew Wilson, Troy Edhlund, and Joseph Messineo sought a declaration that the Ordinance violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution and violates the second amendment right to bear arms. |
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San Francisco Sheriff's Plea
Smacks of Hypocrisy
Anti-gun San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi gets to keep his guns in what began as a domestic violence case. District Attorney George Gascon defended the deal, saying, "We had plenty of evidence to proceed with a trial and it would have been very embarrassing to Mr. Mirkarimi. We elected not to do so because our intent here was not political nor was it our intent to embarrass him. The intent was to seek a just outcome." Carolyn Tyler of the San Francisco News described it as "a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment" in connection with an incident in which he allegedly inflicted a bruise on his wife." "He had to surrender his guns when the charges were originally filed, and if similar charges had been filed against some gun rights activist or an average gun owner, you can bet Mirkarimi would be looking to pillory that person, and strip away their gun rights permanently," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Domestic violence convictions can cause loss of Second Amendment rights but prosecutors reportedly dropped the domestic violence charge and two other misdemeanor counts. |
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Calderon continues to blame U.S.
for Mexico's lawlessness
At a recent White House news conference Calderon again cited Mexico's murder rate increased when the U.S. assault weapon ban expired. "The expiring of the assault weapons ban in the year 2004 coincided almost exactly with the beginning of the harshest -- the harshest -- period of violence we've ever seen," he said. The ban, which prohibited putting attachments such as adjustable-length stocks and flash suppressors on various semi-automatic firearms, expired in September 2004. Mexico's sharp increase in murders began after Calderon launched his war against the drug cartels within days of taking office in December 2006. Reliable statistics are hard to come by, but cartel-related killings appear to account for the majority of murders in Mexico, and since Calderon put on Mexico's presidential sash, cartel-related killings have sharply increased. The Center of Research for Development think tank found that Mexico's murder rate was gradually decreasing before Calderon took office then began to rise after his war on the cartels began. Cartel-related killings rose from 2,800 in 2007, to 6,800 in 2008, 9,600 in 2009, and 15,000 in 2010. (Source: NRA Institute for Legislative Affairs)
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