Noreen Firearms of Belgrade, Montana, is a true firearms manufacturer, unlike others that are mere assemblers: Noreen makes all their own components. It is a distinction that translates into firearm accuracy. That has never been more evident than with the Noreen BN36, a 30.06 caliber AR-platform rifle. The BN36 represents the merging of the AR rifle with an accepted hunting caliber. This means AR fans can now hunt with their AR rifle. It also means they can find readily available ammunition. Even over the past few years, when ammo was at a premium, 30.06 shells were not difficult to find.
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The 280+ 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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Mesa Tactical has announced the Urbino Tactical Stock for the 12-gauge Mossberg 930. More than just a pistol grip butt stock, the new Urbino for the Mossberg 930 is a complete stock system with a shorter return spring and housing, allowing the shortest length of pull available. The Urbino has become the industry standard for a tactical fixed-butt stock for tactical shotguns.
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Trulock Chokes has developed chokes specifically designed to help pattern a gun for shooting skeet and sporting clays that are knurled, extended choke tubes with a stainless-steel finish. Available in a variety of sizes and gauges to fit most shotguns, the three most popular constrictions for sporting clays are Skeet 1, Skeet 2 (Lite Mod) and Improved Modified chokes. The chokes for sporting clays and skeet shooting are crafted on CNC lathes from 17-4 PH grade stainless-steel solid bar stock - never welded tubing. All chokes have a high resistance to staining and rust and are backed by Trulock's lifetime guarantee. .
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Bushnell has introduced an improved version of its popular Banner riflescope line featuring Dusk & Dawn Brightness optics. Banner riflescopes are constructed with a durable one-piece aluminum tube. Dry nitrogen filled, every scope in the line is 100 percent waterproof, fog-proof and shock-proof, ensuring it performs rain or shine. When sighting in the rifle, windage and elevation adjustments can be made quickly and easily with the new quarter MOA fingertip adjustable knobs. Additionally, a new rubber-coated fast focus eyepiece allows hunters and shooters to conveniently fine-tune the reticle focus. The higher magnification scopes in the line feature an adjustable objective to eliminate parallax and maintain optimal image clarity at extended ranges. MSRP: $108.95 to $279.95.
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Predator Gear has launched the first and only drysuit made specifically for hunting. Its revolutionary design uses a neoprene neck seal, latex wrist seals and completely waterproof zippers to keep you dry and in the field longer. The one-piece Predator Gear Drysuit is designed to increase comfort and safety for hunters who venture out in the most challenging conditions. Instead of needing breathable waders that leave you wishing for better fitting boots and a waterproof jacket for warmth and protection up top, the Predator Gear Drysuit solves both needs in one product. Unlike waders, you remain agile even while walking in soft mud. Since the suit won't fill with water like waders, you are safe even if you end up swimming.
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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
The Affordable Care Act: The inconvenient truth
David A. Lombardo
What never ceases to amaze me is how liberals get all bent out of shape when I make some casual comment such as, "This president is the biggest liar in political history." The thing is, when you cite very specific examples of outright lies, liberals just call you a racist.
I could fill pages with lies that this president has said on the record, in full living color, right off his teleprompter and available on You Tube. When he swapped five Taliban terrorists for Army Sergeant Bergdahl, Obama justified it by saying, "This is what happens at the end of wars. It was true for George Washington, it was true for Abraham Lincoln and it was true for FDR....at some point, you make sure that you try to get your folks back."
Umm, see there's a little problem there. As president, George Washington would have had to take a trip in Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to do it. He didn't become president until six years after the Revolutionary War ended. There weren't any prisoners left to be exchanged. Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 - a month before the war ended. And FDR died of a stroke before World War II ended, and when it did end, a lot of Japan had been converted to glass and the Germans were busy cleaning up rubble that previously had names such as Dresden. Prisoners were simply released.
This administration has taken lying to an art form - a really bad, spray-painting-trains type of art form. So it was no surprise when Jonathan Gruber, the architect of the Affordable Care Act, was inadvertently caught on video admitting ObamaCare was sold to the public based on carefully crafted lies.
Gruber, a professor of economics at MIT, is videotaped saying, "Obamacare would never have passed if the administration had been honest," and added, "call it 'the stupidity of the American voter,' or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass."
Obama claimed there were 7 million enrollments, but Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary at the time, admitted only about 80 percent actually followed through and paid a premium. And she went on to say the quoted 7 million was at least a million too high to begin with.
Millions of people now have healthcare in the U.S., the president told us. True enough, but millions of people had healthcare before Obamacare. Industry analysts have figured out that only 23 percent of those on Obamacare are first-time insurance buyers, which was supposed to be the point of the whole exercise.
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," he said. Guess where all the rest of the roughly 5 million people insured on Obamacare came from? Right, Obama killed their insurance policies, and the IRS, claiming they were now uninsured, threatened to fine them into bankruptcy if they didn't buy insurance from an official ACA exchange. By some estimates the Affordable Care Act created as much as 70 to 80 percent of its own "customer base" by canceling existing insurance policies and forcing people to buy the government plan.
Ultimately, statistics show about two percent of the total uninsured population in the U.S. got insurance, but get this: Obama has already spent $23.6 billion implementing the Affordable Care Act and has congressional approval to spend up to $105.5 billion over the next five years. Okay, so here's the point. There are 316 million people in the United States. That means by 2019, Obamacare will spend about $408.5 million for every man, woman and child in the United States, and that's no lie.
The Affordable Care Act is a sham. It was sold to the American people with lies, it hasn't done anything it was purported to do and is nothing more than a tax on John Q. Now that the Congress is controlled by Republicans, it's time to drive a stake through Obamacare's heart and bury it once and for all.
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Ninth Circuit rules
localities must allow concealed carry
Long-suffering California gun owners received some rare good news in February when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recognized a right to bear arms outside the home. In its decision in the NRA-backed case of Peruta v. County of San Diego, the panel struck down San Diego County's "good cause" requirement for a concealed carry license, as county policy failed to recognize general self-defense as sufficient good cause.
Despite a strong articulation of the right to carry outside the home, California gun owners and others under the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction are not out of the woods yet. Following the ruling, gun control proponents petitioned to have the case reheard by a "limited en banc" panel of 11 judges.
The Ninth Circuit has yet to determine whether or not it will grant this request. In the meantime the panel's February 13 ruling has been stayed until a final disposition of the case has been made. This means jurisdictions that were operating under a "may issue" license framework may continue to do so in the interim. Nevertheless a number of counties - including Orange, Ventura and San Joaquin - have already changed their policies to recognize a desire for self-defense as a sufficient cause for the issuance of a concealed carry license to an otherwise qualified applicant. In addition to being an important milestone for Golden State residents, the ruling could affect policy in other states. [Source: NRA/ILA]
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Federal judge denies District motion
to reconsider Palmer ruling
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has denied a motion by the District to reconsider its ruling in the case of Palmer v. District of Columbia, a Second Amendment Foundation case that nullified the city's ban on carrying firearms outside of the home. Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., who issued an opinion in July striking down the total ban on carry as unconstitutional, wrote the five-page opinion denying the District's motion. He reminded the District that "in light of Heller, McDonald and their progeny, there (was) no longer any basis on which this court (could) conclude that the District of Columbia's total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home (was) constitutional under any level of scrutiny."
SAF Founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb noted, "Judge Scullin made it perfectly clear in July that the District cannot continue its outright ban on carry. This new ruling reiterates the language in the Peruta decision in California that 'the carrying of an operable handgun outside the home for the lawful purpose of self-defense, though subject to traditional restrictions, constitutes "bear[ing] Arms" within the meaning of the Second Amendment.' I'm beginning to wonder what part of that the District doesn't understand." |
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Eleventh Circuit: Docs can't ask
non-medically-related firearm questions
In a victory for gun owners who simply seek medical care-not political philosophy-from their doctors, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld the NRA-supported Florida's Firearm Owner's Privacy Act. This law was passed after an escalating series of events in which patients were harassed or denied access to services because they refused to be interrogated by their doctors about their ownership of firearms. The case, Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida, vindicated Florida's attempt to protect patients from being forced to divulge personal information that is irrelevant to their medical treatment.
In challenging the law, Dr. Wollschlaeger and the other plaintiffs insisted they had a First Amendment right to routinely grill patients on their choices concerning firearm ownership, without regard to any good faith belief such information was relevant to the patient's individual case. They also alleged the law's proscriptions were unconstitutionally vague. The Court of Appeals rejected these claims. "The essence of the Act," the court's opinion stated, "is simple: medical practitioners should not record information or inquire about patients' firearm-ownership status when doing so is not necessary to providing the patient with good medical care." Accordingly the court determined that "[t]he Act merely circumscribes the unnecessary collection of patient information on one of many potential sensitive topics." [Source: NRA/ILA]
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Denied Illinois concealed carry?
Relief may be on the way
In a lawsuit challenging the state's concealed carry licensing practices in federal court (Illinois State Rifle Association v. Grau), license applicant Steven Thomas filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Director of the Illinois State Police and members of the state's Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In Illinois the concealed carry law allows law enforcement officials to file objections to applications under some circumstances. The suit took issue with the state's practice of denying license applications under the objection provisions, claiming that the denials lack the due process required by the U.S. Constitution. The complaint cited the Board practice of sustaining objections and denying licenses without explanation to the applicant of the reasons for these decisions, much less opportunity for the applicants to challenge the determinations. "Notice and meaningful opportunity to be heard are the most fundamental requirements of due process," the complaint states, "and every applicant is entitled to make his case at some time in some way before someone with the power to grant his application." After the case was filed, the Illinois State Police (ISP) essentially conceded that the procedures under which the plaintiffs were denied did not comport with due process and published a set of emergency rules that purported to address the issues of notice and opportunity to be heard. While the rules did not resolve all objections to the licensing procedures, lead plaintiff Thomas was able to obtain additional information about his denial and to provide a response, and his application was subsequently approved. Based on this favorable outcome, the plaintiffs agreed to dismissal of the federal case.
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