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Jamie Gray, wife of a U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Soldier, finished in fifth place overall in the 10-meter air rifle after scoring a 499.7 in the first of her two Olympic events.

The national United Methodist Church didn't just call for prayer after the cinema shootings. Instead, the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church & Society stepped up on the bodies of the dead and wounded in Colorado to call for a ban on handguns and semi-auto defense rifles.

Twenty U.S. Olympic Team shooters have begun their journeys to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With just days left until the Opening Ceremony, here's a brief look at the shotgun shooters.

The shooting sports are more popular than ever across the globe. With the lineups for the 2012 London Olympics set, there are a total of 390 shooters from 108 countries competing at the games. The number of competitors places shooting in the top four sports at the Olympics and the total countries represented is up from the two previous games, according to NRA-ILA.

Background checks for people wanting to purchase firearms in Colorado spiked more than 40 percent this past weekend, after a gunman opened fire in a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58 more.

BATFE's acting director distributed a videotaped message to employees this month warning there would be “consequences” for reporting wrongdoing outside their chain of command.

Nine years after losing his leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson has reinvented his Army career. Going from an Infantry squad leader to a wounded warrior, he is now a Paralympic shooter.

Using an out-of-the-box Steyr HS.50 long-range precision rifle, Walter Wilkinson, 56, of Edgewood, NM, bested a field of 31competitors to take the Hunter Class Score World Championship title at the Fifty Caliber Shooters’ Association World Championships at the NRA Whittington Center near Raton, NM, held July 1st and 2nd.

Brian 'Gunny' Zins of Poland, Ohio, won his 11th National Pistol title this weekend during the NRA's National Rifle & Pistol Championships in Camp Perry, Ohio. Shooting an aggregate score of 2649-142x, Zins finished three points ahead of his nearest competitor.

A New Hampshire company plans to auction Bonnie and Clyde memorabilia in September that includes a Colt .38-caliber revolver that Bonnie Parker taped to her inner thigh as well as the .45-caliber pistol that Barrow kept in his waistband.

Two iconic Hollywood firearms will go to auction July 30, auction house Profiles In History has announced.

The National Rifle Association awarded $15,000 in college scholarships to attendees of the 2012 Youth Education Summit (Y.E.S.), a seven-day expense paid educational experience in Washington, DC for rising high school juniors and seniors.