The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported that the U.S. State Department has made a "policy decision" to limit the export of ammunition magazines of more than 30 rounds capacity solely to government, law enforcement and military end-users. The policy has yet to be posted to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls website. NSSF has said it will provide updates on this policy development as more information becomes available.
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The 255+ acre Aurora Sportsmen's club in Waterman, Illinois, is accepting new membership applications.
The Midwest's premier family shooting sports club includes a quarter mile of pistol/rifle ranges from 50 feet to 600 yards, three lighted trap fields and two skeet fields, five stand, a very challenging natural prairie sporting clays course, 3-D archery, stocked fishing ponds, a small golf driving range and hunting on the property.
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Thought for the week
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Ben Franklin
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Youth Extreme Outdoors announced the official launch of its specialty youth hunting camouflage apparel line, Extreme Team Camouflage. The custom Paintball player pattern is the first in the Extreme Team series of 3-D digitized designs created from real life shots of paintball players, paintball guns and real paint splatters out in the field. Additional Extreme Team patterns to follow include Extreme Team Skateboard, Dirt Bike/Motocross, Snowboarding and more. The line will feature a patented pant design that allows the wearer to adjust the waist outward up to 3 inches as well as the pant length by up to 3 inches to accommodate year-to-year growth. .
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Magnum Research has introduced the Mark XIX Desert Eagle .50AE and .44 Magnum in a new high temperature ceramic Cerakote coating called Burnt Bronze. The Mark XIX Desert Eagle .50 AE is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol with a 7 round capacity in .50AE and 8 round capacity in .44 Magnum. The gun measures 10.75" in length with a 6" barrel, or 14.75" with a 10" barrel, available in black as an aftermarket item. Width is 1.25", height 6.25" and the weight, with an empty magazine, is approximately 72 ounces. It has a trigger reach of 2.75" and a sight radius of 8.5" with the 6" barrel. MSRP is $1696.
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 Robinson Outdoor Products is offering its new Recon Lifestyle apparel made of ripstop fabric with S3 Silver antimicrobial treatment. The Recon Lifestyle button-up collared long sleeve shirt has well-placed pockets and gear loops to carry almost anything a hunter could need. With roll-up sleeves and a vented back, this shirt is sure to be useful in warm or cool weather conditions. A short sleeve version is also available. The pants feature fully articulated knees and seat for movement, a self-adjusting waist with belt loops and plenty of storage pockets. MSRP ranges from $49.99 TO $69.99. .
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The Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) has acquired Indianapolis-based Trap & Field Magazine; both businesses have roots going back over 100 years. Iconic businessman Dr. Beurt R. SerVaas, who passed away in February, owned T&F for nearly 56 years. "It was my father's desire to see the baton passed to the ATA," SerVaas' son, Eric, said. "Under my father's ownership, the chronicling of the sport's records was begun, and under the staff's direction, it expanded exponentially over the years." T&F has long been known as the official record-keeper of the ATA.
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On Target Newsletter
On Target Newsletter is a free weekly industry newsletter focused on Second Amendment and firearm industry issues published by On Target Media Group.
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Editorial
Thoughtcrime
David A. Lombardo
"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed-would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper-the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
I remember reading those words penned by George Orwell in his famous dystopian novel, 1984, when I was in high school and rereading them again in college. Orwell wrote of "newspeak," a controlled language created by the totalitarianstate as a tool to limit freedom of thought and concepts that posed a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, peace and so on. Any form of thought alternative to the party's construct was classified as "thoughtcrime."
In 2014, 30 years after Orwell's predictions about 1984, the National Basketball Association's Commissioner Adam Silver, in one stroke of the pen, fulfilled the reality of thoughtcrime in America.
Okay, before I'm metaphorically strapped to some Internet blog pillory and branded racist scum, let me state for the record that I hate racism, sexism, ageism-even more so now that I'm an old guy-and all the other ism's when they interfere with anyone's unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But I draw the line at thoughtcrime and that, John Q, is exactly what the Donald Sterling brouhaha is really all about.
Two weeks ago the average American couldn't pick Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, out of a line-up of one, and today he's America's number one enemy, and for what reason? Is he a racist? Probably so, and apparently not a very nice guy to boot, but I have yet to read Sterling treated any of the players on the Los Angeles Clippers in a derogatory manner. No one, to the best of my knowledge, has accused him of committing any racist act.
There's no mention of him treating players differently based on their skin color or paying them differently, not letting anyone walk through the front door or use the same restroom. Fans aren't sold tickets based on their skin color or given the worst seats in the house. Sterling obviously has racist beliefs, but what exactly did Donald Sterling do that hurt the league or its players so badly that it warranted banning the 80-year-old for life from any association with the league or the Clippers and fining him $2.5 million?
If three-fourths of the other 29 owners agree to Silver's recommendation, Sterling will be forced to sell the team he has owned since 1981. He bought and paid for the Clippers; the team is his property.
What Sterling did was make what he thought were private comments to his girlfriend who, despite saying she loved him, was recording him with intent to publish the recording. Sterling wasn't making public comments; he was arguing with his girlfriend.
Sterling's girlfriend, not to be confused with his wife, is one V. Stiviano, a 31-year-old, beak-wearing, transvestite goomah who has subsequently said, she, or more correctly he, didn't deserve all the attention she was getting for her role in the controversy. Really? She created the situation herself. This is the same person who subsequently said, "One day I will become president of the United States"-a thought that probably makes James Earl Carter really feel good because it would make him only the third worst president in history.
Personally, I think Sterling and V. Stiviano are both certifiable nutballs, but his crime was being ticked off over her posting pictures of herself with black athletes Magic Johnson and Matt Kemp. On the recording he says, "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?"
Okay, Sterling is a jerk, but the last time I checked, what one thinks isn't a crime; it is what one does that forays into legal action. In my opinion Silver publically stating, "Sentiments of this kind are contrary to the principles of inclusion and respect that form the foundation of our diverse, multicultural and multiethnic league" aren't inappropriate. However where the train leaves the track is when he gives Sterling the old heave-ho for thinking differently than him; it is classic Orwellian thoughtcrime. What has happened to America that allows unpopular thought to become a crime? Not actions but simply thought!
In his book, Bomb Jokes at Airports and 186 other things you'd better not say, Alan Korwin details how pervasive thoughtcrime has become in today's political climate. Americans love to talk about how we have freedom of speech, but the truth is we have freedom of acceptable speech, and acceptability is increasingly dictated by liberalism. If you've never read a book in your life, you still need to buy Korwin's astounding book and belly up to the bar of reality. We're living in a society in which liberalism is in fact dictating what is, and isn't, acceptable thinking.
In it Korwin explains how America's employers now operate in an atmosphere of terror-mortified of running afoul of the laws due to an idle comment or inadvertent remark because everyone is empowered to file a complaint under current discrimination laws. Worse, government lawyers with virtually unlimited funding can come after the target of the complaint. Employers have to watch their mouths in everything they say to protect themselves from a free-speech attack under EEOC rules.
We are rapidly turning into a society in which liberalism defines acceptable thought and creates a system in which thinking to the contrary can result in public humiliation, loss of employment, huge monetary penalties and even imprisonment.
Under the 2014 version of Newspeak, it's okay to mock Christianity, Judaism, traditional marriage, financial success, right to life, self-reliance, personal responsibility, the Second Amendment and any other conservative value.
On the other hand George Carlin's list of seven words you can't say on television has grown to thousands. Try questioning atheism, abortion, Obamacare, entitlement programs, illegal immigration, global warming or gun control and, brother, even body armor won't protect you. And if that's not Orwell's newspeak, I don't know what is.
Liberalism is a mental disorder that is bringing a once-great America to its knees, and it's doing it so insidiously that Americans aren't standing up and saying "enough!" But if John Q will open his collective eyes and see what's really happening, there is still hope, and it's called a general election.
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This week David and Gretchen will be talking with Kristina Rasmussen, executive vice president of the Illinois Policy Institute, about the failed initiative to institute a progressive tax in Illinois and whether or not the legislature is going to let the 2011 temporary tax hike expire as promised.
All that, and more, this Sunday evening from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. on AM560 THE ANSWER.
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Operation Choke Point
targets legal businesses for political reasons
In 2012 you may have wondered why Bank of America told McMillan Group International, who was expanding into firearms manufacturing, it no longer wanted its business. "We have to assess the risk of doing business with a firearms-related industry," the bank's representative told operations director Kelly McMillan. Well, now we know the real reason why. The U.S. Department of Justice has been pressuring banks to refuse service to businesses the DOJ is targeting politically in a program entitled Operation Choke Point. Holder, who at last count has been tied to over a dozen scandals, is now heading up an attempt to shut down various legal businesses including firearm dealers, dating services, purveyors of drug paraphernalia and pornography distributors, by coercing financial institutions to close the bank and merchant accounts associated with the businesses. Love them or hate them, what business is it of the U.S. Attorney General to develop a personal hit list of legitimate businesses then sic his dogs of war on them? The businesses targeted follow a 2011 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation bulletin which lists all of the above legal activities and others as "merchant categories that have been associated with high-risk activity" involving "disreputable merchants." "Although many clients of payment processors are reputable merchants, an increasing number are not and should be considered 'high risk,'" the bulletin reads. "These disreputable merchants use payment processors to charge consumers for questionable or fraudulent goods and services."
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ATK $4.5B merger spins off sporting division
Alliant Techsystems will be merging its defense and aerospace divisions with satellite manufacturer Orbital Sciences, while its popular sporting division will be spun off as its own separate entity. ATK Sporting Group is a giant in the ammunition industry, owning brands such as Federal Premium, CCI, Speer Ammo and Blazer. Other brands listed under the ATK Sporting Group include rifle-maker Savage Arms, optics manufacturer Bushnell, Blackhawk and Hoppe's. Upon completion of the $4.5 billion merger, ATK will change its name to Orbital ATK. According to Mark DeYoung, president and CEO of ATK, the division came about because the aerospace and defense side of the company operated in a fundamentally different market from its sporting division. As a standalone company the Sporting Group will have greater flexibility in pursuing its own goals independent of Orbital ATK. With decreased government spending on space and defense, ATK's sporting division has become one of the most profitable for the company, bringing in $2.2 billion in revenue at the end of last year. According to Cowen & Co. analyst Gautam Khanna, the unit could easily become a $3 billion business in its own right.
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Henry Repeating Arms donates $100,000
to Peyton Manning Children's Hospital
Henry Repeating Arms donated $100,000 to the St.Vincent House at Peyton Manning Children's Hospital. The contribution will benefit the patients and families seeking a greatly-needed home away from home during treatment. The check was presented to Sue Anne Gilroy, executive director of the St. Vincent Foundation and the former Indiana Secretary of State, by Anthony Imperato, president and owner of Henry Repeating Arms. The presentation took place on April 24, 2014, in front of 2,500 NRA members at the Friends of the NRA National Banquet held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The donation was made as part of Henry Repeating Arms' Guns For Great Causes program. President Anthony Imperato explained, "We started the program several years ago because we felt blessed with our success and wanted to give back to organizations we admire. The Peyton Manning Children's Hospital provides extraordinary patient care for the children of Indiana, and we are proud to support them."
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Pentagon to destroy over $1B worth of ammo
A new Government Accountability Office report found that the Pentagon is planning to destroy an estimated $1.2 billion worth of ammunition. According to the report, the stockpile slated to be destroyed is a part of the $70 billion worth of ammunition managed by the Department of Defense through the Army. This immense ammo reserve weighs about 1.7 million tons and is utilized by all of the nation's military forces, although it is currently stored in eight large Army depots. Other services have their own inventory systems to account for ammunition, but only the Army uses the Pentagon format, which makes data exchanges between the services difficult. This problem is alleviated in part by a meeting of the armed services every year called the Quad Services Cross-Leveling Review, where the branches identify surplus ammunition and redistribute it among themselves or U.S. allies. After this meeting any ammunition not accounted for is then slated for possible disposal, even though the ammo in question may still be perfectly functional. "We need to adopt systems to where the Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army can all share information about different types and amounts of ammunition they have that's excess to their foreseeable needs," retired Army general Bill McClain said during an interview on KTRH News.
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