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Check out several videos this week: Watch a Ruger stainless 44 Mag lose its barrel due to metal fatigue. Larry Potterfield of MidwayUSA examines numerous gun stock blanks to illustrate what to look for when selecting a stock blank. From the NSSF, a quick run down of what to pack when you're heading out of town on that hunt of a lifetime.

(GunReports.com) -- Crimson Trace announced the release of a New Laserguard product for the Ruger SR9c, the LG-449.The newest addition to the Laserguard family attaches to the trigger-guard and is instinctively activated with a pressure button located on the front of the grip.As with all Laserguard models, the LG-449 attaches to the trigger guard. The Laserguard housing is manufactured out of polymer with a rubber-overmolded activation pad.

(GunReports.com) -- Chrysler's new line of Outdoorsman pickup trucks includes a gun closet over the left rear wheelwell.The Ram truck division product is called the The Mopar RamBox Holster. The built-in gun rack can hold two rifles or shotguns inside one of the lockable, watertight compartments located on either side of the pickup bed.A $205 option - on top of the $1895 price of the RamBox feature itself - the rack can be rotated to hold six fishing poles.

(GunReports.com) -- A private museum located in Mexico's Ministry of Defence contains an array of seized drug-gangster devices, including heavily engraved guns.According to the Daily Mail (UK), among the items is a diamond-encrusted mobile phone and a solid gold medal bearing the crest of one of the drug gangs.The museum, Museo de los Enervantes, opened in 1985 and is used by the military to educate soldiers to the lifestyles and culture of drug cartels. It's open only to military officials and officer cadets in drug enforcement.

(GunReports.com) -- Israel Weapon Industries's new UZI PRO Sub Machine Gun (SMG) is a lightweight magazine-fed firearm based on the UZI sub machine gun.The is blowback-operated shoulder- or hip-fired weapon can be fired in automatic or semiautomatic modes.The magazine housing is located in the pistol grip, making magazine replacement in the dark much more simple. It fires from a closed bolt and has an integrated jump compensator on the barrel.

(GunReports.com) -- Hi-Point Carbines has debuted a new .45 ACP carbine, joining the company's 9mm and .40 Caliber carbines.The blowback semiauto has a black molded polymer skeletonized stock, three top-side and forearm bottom Picatinny rails, and it comes with a single stack 9-round magazine which also fits the Hi-Point series of .45 semi-auto pistols.

The Mil Spec model is in some ways a commemorative pistol without getting gaudy or expensive. It has classic styling including a basic military style grip safety and solid hammer tang.

(GunReports.com) -- The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago's new gun ordinance, asserting that 'by banning gun ranges open to the public...under color of law,' the city is depriving citizens of their right to keep and bear arms in violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

(GunReports.com) -- Smith & Wesson has introduced a new X-Frame model in collaboration with professional hunter Michael Waddell – the S&W500 Bone Collector.

The revelation that the City of San Francisco might consider an ammunition registry scheme brought a promise from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that a lawsuit would quickly follow.

(GunReports.com) -- The Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010 (H.R. 5552) passed by unanimous consent in the Senate last week.

(GunReports.com) -- The eighth member of an illegal gun trafficking ring that trafficked over 65 firearms from Atlanta, Ga., to the San Francisco Bay Area has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison.