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Volume 4, No. 29; July 24, 2015  
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The 265 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.

 

The Aurora Sportsmen's Club offers a robust calendar of educational and recreation shooting events including the Civilian Marksmanship Program, IDPA competition, bulls eye shooting, black powder, action shooting sports, trap shooting and much more. 


 

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Browning has added Pro Sporting and Pro Trap model shotguns to its Citori 725 line-up. Both feature a Pro Fit Adjustable Comb and Pro Balance System in the stock that allows shooters to fine-tune the balance point for a perfect mount and swing. Other features include Fire Lite Mechanical Trigger System, a full-width hinge pin and tapered locking bolt design to ensure strength and durability. The Citori 725 Pro Sporting will be offered in 12- and 20-gauge with 30" or 32" barrels at a suggested retail of $3,999.99. The Citori 725 Pro Trap 12-gauge features a high rib, 30" or 32" barrels and a suggested retail of $3,999.99 

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Steyr Aug has introduced Tiger Stripe ACU pattern stocks available in short rail, high rail and attached 1.5x Optic versions. Tiger Strip ACU is a true do-it-all camo pattern that works in any-absolutely any-environment. "We're excited to be the only ones offering it. Hydro-dip is the perfect finish for this stock, and customers will love the durability, warranty and uniqueness it provides," said Blake Wheeler, MSR Sales Manager. "We're very pleased with how this special run of AUG/A3 M1 rifles came out," said Scott O'Brien, CEO of Steyr Arms. "We're excited to be working exclusively with MSR Distribution on this project, as we expect this to be a big hit with AUG fans, both old and new."

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  Heckler & Koch added a .40 caliber model to its new VP striker-fired pistol line. The VP40 (Caliber .40 S&W) joins the 9 mm VP9 that was introduced to the U.S. commercial and law enforcement markets in June of 2014. It has the same precise trigger that debuted on the VP9, and the grip can be customized to fit any shooter by using a mix of three interchangeable backstraps and six grip panels. Covered by a limited lifetime warranty, the VP40 is designed and manufactured in Oberndorf, Germany, with HK's famous long-term durability. The VP40 is value priced, with a suggested retail cost of $719. A law enforcement configuration VP40 with tritium night sights and three magazines is also available for $819 SRP.

 

 

Steiner's new P-Series 7x50 binoculars are available in five models, ranging from full size to compact. Each delivers bright, three-dimensional images, sharp resolution and a wide field of view for fast image capture, high detail and quick target appraisal. From low light to full sun, extended surveillance to sudden action, there's a P-Series binocular to match any tactical situation. The 10x50mm, 7x50mm and 8x30mm porro prism models have a floating prism system that uses silicon lens mounts to absorb severe shock, impact and abuse without damage. The multi-coated lenses optimize light transmission for superb performance in low light or hazy conditions. Steiner's Sports Auto Focus System lets you focus each eyepiece only once, keeping images razor sharp from 20 yards to infinity. The compact 10x26 and full-size 10x42 models' roof prism design makes them light and easy to carry for maximum mobility. 

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 Editorial

Cops

David A. Lombardo

 

With an apology to the New York Yankee's Yogi Berra, the way cops are being treated lately is like "d�j� vu all over again." I noted from the time I came back from Vietnam in 1968 through the early 1970s, cops were being vilified. Cops got a bad rap then, and it was common for graffiti on buildings to say "pigs." It was the counter culture-the anti-war, anti-government sentiment. It began to gain momentum in 1965 when Jack Weinberg, a free-speech-movement activist and grad student at the University of California-Berkeley, told a reporter that young people should not trust anyone over 30. Cops took it on the chin, kept doing their job and survived those bad years, but it's worth noting the anti-cop sentiment was not government-sponsored, unlike today.

 

Cops are again getting a bum rap, but this time it's fostered by the President of the United States and funded by the likes of George Soros. Ever the optimist, my money is yet again on that cops will take it on the chin, keep doing their job and survive it. But let's get a few facts straight for the record.

 

When you're at work, it's cops who keep an eye on your house. At night when you're asleep you're kept safe because some cop is patrolling your neighborhood. When someone harms you or your family, it's a cop that responds and dedicates himself to helping you when you're scared and hurt. When your kid wanders away, it's a cop that goes looking. When it's a hundred degrees outside, they still put on the body armor and swelter in the heat so they can be out there when you need them.

 

And while sworn law enforcement officers have no statutory obligation to put themselves in harm's way to protect a citizen, in my 20 years as an armed auxiliary deputy, I never encountered a single cop who wouldn't do so without hesitation. What chaps my butt are people who get an attitude when a cop defends himself against some socially-deviant miscreant intent upon taking out a cop-that segment of society that thinks everyone owes them something and that anyone in a uniform doing their job is a target, and those that would judge regardless of the facts.

 

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, during snow storms and as flood waters rise, cops are out there doing anything they can to protect you, often leaving their own families vulnerable to the same problems. They get beat up, worn out, divorced and, yes, sometimes cynical because they deal with society's lowest common denominator. The fact is cops spend an entire life of utter boredom interspersed with moments of stark terror. Believe me when I say it's not for the money. Cops are sheepdogs in a world largely populated by sheep and wolves. Fortunately for society, few of them would be happy doing anything else, because the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports tell us an estimated 1.2 million violent crimes occurred nationwide in 2013, the most recent statistics available.

 

Of the 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers, 64 were killed in the line of duty during the first half of 2015, a three percent increase over last year. Of the 64, 30 were killed in traffic-related incidents, 18 by gunfire and 16 due to job-related illnesses. There are 20,538 names engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. They honor police officers who died in the line of duty since the first death in 1791. In the past 10 years there has been an average of one death every 60 hours and another 59,000 police officers have been assaulted, resulting in over 15,000 serious injuries. Cops live with those statistics every day and so do their families. Despite the risks, every day those 900,000 men and women work to keep our cities safe, and we owe every one of them a debt of gratitude. Imagine a world where such men and women did not exist. 


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Obama Turns to Social Security

Roles for Gun Ban

 

This getting old stuff ain't what it used to be. Just getting used to the things I simply can't or shouldn't do anymore is a daily exercise in futility. The one thing I know for sure is I'm too young to die and too old to take a beating, so Mr. Glock has become my constant companion. Well, the dopey, hopey/changy guy you elected is now coming after Social Security recipient's guns. Obama has effectively deputized the Social Security Administration and has them rooting around in their files for likely candidates to be added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The purpose of NICS is to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and other nefarious individuals.

 

According to the Los Angeles Times, "A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to 'marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.'" The LA Times went on to say that if Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the Veterans Administration, about 4.2 million adults who receive monthly benefits and are managed by "representative payees" could lose their Second Amendment rights. - dal

As We've Been Saying,

Let's Continue to FixNICS

 

The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane recently wrote in his blog about Dylan Roof and the South Carolina shooting. Since 1998 the firearms industry has relied on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to determine whether a prospective gun buyer is eligible to purchase a firearm. Since its inception NICS has been far more effective than the local background checks implemented in the first phase of the Brady Act - a mandate later invalidated by the Supreme Court on 10th Amendment grounds.

 

NICS was waiting when Roof first attempted to purchase a gun on April 11. When the retailer contacted NICS, the initial check surfaced a record of a recent drug arrest, so the purchase was delayed and turned over to an FBI examiner. But due to a quirk of South Carolina geography, the examiner contacted the wrong local police department. The bottom line is that the examiner ultimately failed to obtain the police report in which Roof had apparently admitted to being an illegal user of a controlled substance - grounds to issue a denial.

 

Under federal law, the FBI has three business days to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to deny a purchase. Because the examiner was unable to find the correct information, Roof was able to purchase the gun. But it wasn't until two months after the gun purchase that Roof used the gun to commit the crime. We don't know if the examiner abandoned the investigation, but if his disqualifying information had been discovered, the two months provided ample time for the FBI to advise the ATF of the illegal purchase and send agents to confiscate the gun. "The mistake does not call for changes to the statute, but instead improving our current system," Keane wrote. "NSSF has long been calling for such improvements as part of our FixNICS initiative," he wrote.

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Left Coast Continues Anti-2A Attacks

 

A California court has essentially told FFLs: your 1st Amendment rights are denied (at least for now). There has been a surprising twist in Tracy Rifle v. Harris, the First Amendment case in which several FFLs are challenging California's prohibition on the on-site display of handgun advertisements. In determining whether the imposition of a preliminary injunction was appropriate as the merits of the challenge are litigated, the court determined that although plaintiffs will most likely succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim, it would still deny the preliminary injunction because plaintiffs provided "no specific evidence that they will suffer irreparable harm due to the immediate consequences of compliance" with the statute. In denying the motion, the court brushed aside the well-accepted idea that the "loss of First Amendment rights, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury," ruling instead in favor of "a cautionary approach that favors denial greater serves the public interest than granting the injunction."

 

Army to Recruiters:

Treat Armed Citizens as Security Threat

 

The U.S. Army has sent out a warning to its recruiting centers around the nation about civilians who've voluntarily taken up arms to patrol the sites, saying: these people could be threats. The Stars and Stripes reported the development has come in the wake of the deadly shooting of four Marines and one Navy sailor at the Navy Operational Support Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Because those on military property cannot carry their personal weapons, civilians have since taken up arms to patrol outside the facilities. Among the sites civilians are now patrolling are recruiting centers in Wisconsin, Georgia, Tennessee, Idaho and Michigan.

 

"We're just out here paying it forward, basically. I mean, they work for us 24/7, so I figure it couldn't hurt to donate a few hours of our time to make sure they get safe," Brandon McNeilly of Tennessee told CNN affiliate WATE-TV.

 

"I'm sure the citizens mean well, but we cannot assume this in every case, and we do not want to advocate this behavior," said Army Command Operations Center-Security Division's letter, the Stars and Stripes reported. Recruiters were advised to keep away from the civilians and not interact with them.

 

"If questioned by these alleged concerned citizens, be polite, professional and terminate the conversation immediately and report the incident to local law enforcement," the letter went on. "Ensure your recruiters clearly articulate to local police the civilian may be armed and in possession of a conceal/carry [sic] permit." (Read the entire article)