Industry Notes

Stealth Cam's new Professional HD Camera is an ultra-compact game camera that features the ZX7 Processor, which produces a faster trigger speed and longer battery life.

As Cabela's Inc. prepares the selection of guns it will sell for the holiday season and winter hunting, the outdoor-gear retailer has two plans: one if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and one if he isn’t, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The effective range of the .30-30 is about 150-170 yards. Some of the wizzy new Magnums can outperform this by roughly 300 percent, at least on paper. But can the hunter outperform the .30-30? Can you?

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver/owner Tony Stewart and other sportsmen will celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day 2012 on Saturday.

In a victory for hunters and sport shooters, on August 8, the California Fish and Game Commission rejected a proposal to expand the existing ban on the use of lead ammunition that applies to hunting in certain parts of California. The proposal would have expanded the existing ban on the use of lead ammunition, now applicable only in the limited 'Condor Zone' created by AB 821, to also include State Wildlife Areas, Ecological Reserves, and depredation hunts.

AAC is canceling all of its 10/22-SD orders, effective immediately, Nick Leghorn at The Truth about Guns blog reports.

Thanks to the folks over at NRA E-Media, it's now easier to get the specs on your favorite gun using the new NRA Ultimate Gun Guide for iPad.

The National Rifle Association has selected Nicole R. Goeser of Nashville, Tennessee, to receive the 2012 Sybil Ludington Women’s Freedom Award.

The number of hunters age 16 and older in the United States increased 9 percent between 2006 and 2011, reversing a previous downward trend, a preliminary report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Department of the Interior shows.

Due to overwhelming grassroots opposition from law-abiding gun owners and California’s firearms industry members, SB 249 was pulled from the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing calendar for Thursday, Aug. 16. This means that the bill is dead for the year.

NSSF reports that overall U.S. imports (in units) in six sporting arms and ammunition categories increased 41.0 percent in June 2012 compared to June 2011. June 2012 imported units in tracked categories totaled 203.2 million, up from 144.2 million reported in June 2011.

Freedom Group, Inc. (FGI), which owns Remington, Bushmaster, DPMS, Marlin, and others, has named Scott Blackwell as president. Blackwell served as chief sales and marketing officer since 2010. As president, Blackwell will oversee all revenue, branding, marketing and communications for FGI.