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(GunReports.com) -- Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR), is displaying the very first Ruger firearm and the recently produced 25 millionth Ruger firearm at the 2011 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

(GunReports.com) – The latest Taurus Raging Judge fires a larger, more powerful 28-gauge shotshell than previous .410 bore chamberings of the gun. The Taurus Raging Judge in 28 gauge comes with a “Raging Bull” cushioned insert grip, steel frame, single-action/double-action trigger and fiber optic front sight.

(GunReports.com) -- Uberti's new hand-tuned Cattleman model is named The Boss, or El Patron. Uberti is now offering a new 1873 Cattleman El Patron Cowboy Mounted Shooter (CMS) in a customized, full-size single-action revolver. The El Patron is available in traditional .45 Colt or the powerhouse .357 Magnum.

(GunReports.com) -- Bob Morrison, president and CEO of Taurus International, announced in Las Vegas that Jim Land has been named as the 2011 Taurus Defender of Freedom Award recipient.

(GunReports.com) — For at least the rest of the week, GunReports.com will continue to compile links to stories that document the threats being made to 2nd Amendment and other speech and property rights under the pretext of the Tucson tragedy.

(GunReports.com) -- Smith & Wesson Corp. has announced that the California Division of Parole has begun issuing its officers a new duty side arm, the Smith & Wesson M&P40 pistol. The agency took possession of the 2,300 pistols chambered in .40 S&W from Smith & Wesson in November and officers in the field are currently using the M&P40.

(GunReports.com) -- The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for December 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (1,133,371) show a 9.9 percent increase over NSSF-adjusted figures from December 2009 (1,031,344). For calendar year 2010, the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 9,436,182 is a decrease of 1 percent over the NSSF-adjusted figure of 9,534,131 in calendar year 2009.

(GunReports.com) -- A release from the CCRKBA: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is condemning Saturday's attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murders of six people including a federal judge and a 9-year-old child, for which a 22-year-old Tucson man is now facing charges.

(GunReports.com) -- Gun Owners of America issued an email alert in response to New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy's call for magazine and gun show bans in the wake of shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend.

Interest in defensive carbines has grown so much that aftermarket catalogs such as Brownells (www.brownells.com), now mail a separate issue dedicated to the AR-15 platform. But the AR is not the only available long gun and 223 Remington/5.56mm is not the only round available for self defense—for instance, there’s the 7.62x39mm. This round was developed by the Soviets circa 1943. According to some loading manuals, popularity of this cartridge in the United States saw a boom when GIs returning from Viet Nam brought home Communist Bloc weapons.Since then, other more American designs have been chambered for the 7.62x39mm. For example, the AR-15 style DPMS Panther 16-inch 7.62x39mm No. RFA2-762-16 carbine, $850.

(GunReports.com) -- Crimson Trace has announced the LG-412 Laserguard for the new Ruger LC9. The laserguard fits on the the trigger guard of Ruger's latest polymer-frame carry gun. Pre-zeroed from the factory, the Laserguard can be fine tuned by the individual user and will run for continuously for four hours on one 1/3N battery.

(GunReports.com) -- Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: SWHC) has named Jeffrey D. Buchanan as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Buchanan, 55, has been a member of the Company's Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2004.