Industry Notes

An Associated Press story published this week describes how a tiny Idaho town is aggressively courting firearms and firearms-accessory companies to get them to relocate from states that are unfriendly to guns.

Galco Gunleather has introduced a new Facebook page. Here's what they had to say about it:

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) just completed the fourth and final quarter of its '1.2 Million Gun Challenge to Benefit the NRA,” selling 382,500 firearms. During this year-long challenge, Ruger donated a total of $1,254,000 to the NRA.

When Berger first started selling bullets, the company sold Target bullets in yellow boxes. Over the years, the company’s line has expanded to include Varmint, Hunting, and Tactical bullets. These application-based lines are designed to help shooters more easily find the right bullets for their purposes.

The National Firearms Museum's new Theodore Roosevelt collection, set to debut in June, has the presidential hunter’s 1894 Winchester lever-action rifle.

On Friday, June 1, representatives of the Shikar Safari Club International Foundation joined with the USA Shooting National Team Members for Shotgun to officially fire the ceremonial first shots from the new international trap bunker the club helped construct.

In association with CheaperThanDirt.com, the Gun Tests/GunReports.com team shoots a quartet of high-cap shotguns, with surprising results. The head-to-head findings compare a Saiga 12-gauge autoloader, the Kel-Tec KSG pumpgun, a Red Jacket Saiga Conversion, and the AR-15–style Akdal Arms MKA1919 autoloader.

Austin Miller from GunReports.com takes a minute to talk with Josh Waldron, CEO of Silencerco at the first-ever Silencers Are Legal Shoot at Elm Fork Shooting Range in Dallas, April 28.

Remington has determined that six Lot Numbers of its 270 Win. 150-grain soft-point ammunition may have been improperly loaded. The company warns that, when fired, these improperly loaded rounds may result in higher-than-normal pressures that can damage your firearm and possibly cause serious personal injury or death. The company warns shooters not to use Remington 270 Win. 150-grain soft-point ammunition with lot numbers N16SA24L, N16SA24R, N16SB24L, N16SB24R, N13SC24L, or N13SC24R.

Due to the Privacy Act of 1974, the NICS Section of the FBI cannot provide a reason for a customer’s delay or denial of a gun purchase over the telephone.

Greg Ellifritz, a full-time firearms and defensive tactics training officer for a central Ohio police department and the president of Active Response Training, recently posted an extensive self-study of cartridge and shotshell stops in the Shooter's Log at CheaperThanDirt.com.

On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was abandoning the effort to ban recreational shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona.