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Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) is testing a customizable, tracked, all-terrain shooting platform expressly tailored for the needs of severely disabled and paraplegic veterans. The first field test is to be conducted within 90 days to verify capabilities and perfect the shooting chair's features. "When we're done with our testing, we will be able to take almost any disabled veteran into the field to hunt virtually any hoofed, pawed or winged creature in any terrain, in up to 6 inches of water, snow or mud and on land with up to 25-degree inclines," Tom Taylor, HAVA Chairman, said. |
The Clyde Howell 14th annual Youth Shooting Sports Camp for 10-16 year old Boys and Girls.
June 2-3, 2012 was a GREAT success! We are already planning for next year! Thanks to all who volunteered and helped make this event something special!
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act. H.R. 3065 will ensure that shooters and hunters have high-quality public facilities at which to participate in recreational shooting sports and to learn about firearms safety. The bill was included as Title XII of the Conservation and Economic Growth Act (H.R. 2578), which the House passed by a broad bipartisan margin. H.R. 3065 provides state game and fish agencies with more flexibility and discretion to be able to utilize Pittman-Robertson funds for the creation, enhancement and maintenance of public shooting ranges. |
The NSSF is offering schools free of charge educational videos about firearm safety and wildlife conservation. The videos teach students how to react when encountering a firearm in an unsupervised situation. The conservation titles educate students on how wildlife and wild lands are protected, and how hunters support this effort with contributions amounting to more than $1 billion annually. NSSF believes all teachers and their students, whether in public, private or home schools, can benefit from the important messages in the videos, which are contained on two DVDs. |
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Greylock Gear and Leather has launched its new website displaying moderately priced leather holsters for most popular handguns.
Named for Mount Greylock, the highest natural point in Massachusetts in the beautiful Berkshires, Greylock designs and manufactures wet-molded Turkish rawhide, hand-finished and double-stitched holsters. The company does not use chemicals in the tanning process; only natural ingredients are used to provide a consistent, quality finish for their rust-colored leather holsters. Greylock plans to continue to expand the holster line with more models including inside clip-on holsters and shoulder holsters. |
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The new Anschütz MSR RX22 small-bore tactical training rifle is manufactured to the same exacting tolerances of Anschütz' target barrels and has single-stage trigger components that are hardened and finely ground to produce a fast trigger with a very consistent release adjustable from 3.3 to 5.5 lbs., and factory set at 4 lbs. The rifle was designed to accommodate left- and right-handed shooters and comes with one 10-round polymer detachable single-stack magazine. Two, five, 20 and 22 round magazines are also available. The suggested retail price of the standard Desert and Black Hawk models is $895. |
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House Holds Holder in Contempt of Congress
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress by a 23 to 17 vote.
In a letter written to The Honorable Darrell E. Issa, the committee's chairman, Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, wrote, "The American people - including millions of NRA members and tens of millions of NRA supporters - deserve the truth, and we will support any effort that leads us to that truth."
The Committee's report thoroughly details the immediate reasons for the resolution: the Justice Department's open defiance of legitimate demands for documents that are needed for oversight and investigation of one of the most disastrous episodes in the history of federal law enforcement. Guns linked to the operation are also linked to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and many Mexican citizens.
Since taking office, Holder has seized on the deadly violence in Mexico to promote more gun control. He perpetuated the lie that "90 percent" of firearms used in Mexican crime come from the U.S. and he called for resurrecting the 1994 Clinton gun ban; and to justify the illegal multiple sales reporting scheme, which amounts to gun registration for honest Americans who buy long guns in southwest Border States.
President Obama, who steadfastly claims he knows nothing about Operation Fast and Furious, felt compelled to claim executive privilege to prevent Congressional access to documents that don't exist, pertaining to an operation he didn't know anything about. This is the same person who during a televised interview with Larry King on CNN in March 2007 talked extensively about George W. Bush's tendency to "hide behind executive privilege."
There is little doubt that the White House used the Fast and Furious program to advance its gun control agenda.
"The action by the White House creates the strong suspicion that the Obama administration is trying to hide from the fact that they have blood on their hands," Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said. "That's not rhetoric; we're talking about the deaths of countless Mexican citizens and especially a dead federal officer. Fast and Furious has given us a verifiable body count. There is evidence that those involved in Fast and Furious thought it could bolster calls for additional gun control. If that's accurate, it demonstrates a callousness that goes beyond the limits of human decency. It is imperative that the American public knows all the facts of this case prior to the election. The people responsible for this disaster must be held accountable, and that will not happen so long as the administration continues to stonewall, and hiding behind executive privilege suggests that Holder and the president have no intention of coming clean." [Source: NRA/ILA and CCRKBA] |
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Gowder vs Chicago - Another Win!
Things just haven't been working out very well for the past two mayors of Chicago with respect to those evil guns that people want to keep to protect themselves. Earlier his week a U.S. District Court judge in Chicago ruled yet another part of the Chicago gun ordinance unconstitutional. The ordinance requires a Chicago specific permit in order to possess a handgun in one's home. Shawn Gowder (Shawn Gowder v. City of Chicago) was denied a permit on the basis of a 1995 non-violent misdemeanor of possessing a handgun inside the city. Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan ruled the ordinance too vague and stated in his ruling: "There is something incongruent about a nonviolent person, who is not a felon but who is convicted of a misdemeanor offense of simple possession of a firearm, being forever barred from exercising his constitutional right to defend himself in his own home in Chicago against felons or violent criminals." Attorneys for the City of Chicago have not said whether or not they plan to appeal the ruling. [Source: IllinoisCarry.com |
NSSF Files Suit to Protect Traditional Ammo
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has identified the protection of traditional ammunition as a priority and it is intervening in a lawsuit and enthusiastically supporting federal legislation in pursuing that goal. The anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and six other groups have filed a lawsuit designed to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into banning traditional ammunition containing lead components, an action to which NSSF immediately responded, saying it would intervene to represent the interests of industry, hunters and target shooters. EPA has twice denied petitions filed by CBD to ban traditional ammunition, citing correctly that it does not have the authority to regulate ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have filed an historic package of sportsmen's bills as an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill that includes the Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Protection Act, which would clarify that ammunition is excluded from regulation by the EPA. Comprising 16 separate pieces of legislation, the package includes the majority of the firearms and ammunition industry's legislative priorities for the 112th Congress. |
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MidwayUSA Donates $50,000 to NRA Scholarship
MidwayUSA is donating $50,000 to help launch the MidwayUSA & NRA Bianchi Cup Scholarship program for the 2013 championship taking place in Columbia, Missouri on May 22-25. "This new scholarship program will provide opportunities for dozens of first-time young shooters to participate in this outstanding event making it bigger and better every year," MidwayUSA President Matt Fleming, said. Scholarship recipients will receive: Travel, lodging, entry fees and expense money not to exceed $2,500.00 - provided by MidwayUSA; One Colt National Match Grade Gold Cup in 9mm to use - provided by Colt Firearms; One (1) belt, One (1) holster, and magazine pouches - provided by Safariland; Ammunition for practice and use at the match - provided by Sierra Bullets; Two customized and personalized shooting shirts - provided by the NRA; and Mentoring from a Professional shooter during the Championship which includes practice time at the practice range and shooting in the same squad. To apply, applicants must be a college age shooter (ages 18-22) and first time shooters of the Bianchi Cup. |
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Firearm trafficker faces 10 years
Joshua Dawson (20) has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Seattle to conspiracy to unlawfully deal in firearms and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is one of six Seattle-area men so indicted. Facing as long as 10 years, under the terms of the plea agreement, both sides will recommend a prison sentence between five and eight years at the sentencing scheduled for September 28th. In his plea agreement, Dawson admits to selling eight guns between January and March 2012: a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver; a Mac 11 9mm pistol; an SKS 7.62 assault rifle; a Romarm/Cugir 7.62 x 39mm caliber rifle; a DPMS .223/5.56mm caliber rifle; an Olympic Arms multi-rifle with a silencer; a Weatherby 7mm caliber rifle; and a Maadi 7.62 x 39mm caliber rifle. In the statement of facts in the plea agreement, Dawson admits that when officers went to arrest him on April 17, 2012, he fled in his car, crashing into multiple other vehicles. When he was taken into custody, officers located a loaded Kel-Tec model PF-9 9mm pistol in the glove compartment of his car. |
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