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NRA's Education & Training Department will offer two new courses this summer: Defensive Pistol and Certified Advanced Pistol Instructor.

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.

CTD Shooting Team member Lena Miculek details how to execute weak-hand shotgun reloads in multi-gun competitions using a JM-series Pro Mossberg autoloading shotgun:

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.

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.

Sergeant First Class Daryl Szarenski (WCAP/Seale, Ala.) finished the Men’s 50m Free Pistol match in the same place he began it—first. Szarenski overcame a broken pistol and finished the match with his back up trigger. He finished nearly 12 points ahead of the competition in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Smallbore in Fort Benning, Ga.

The Lone Star State will be the center of a shooting-style send-off for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team for Shooting, June 15-16. Pioneer Natural Resources, the independent exploration and production company based in Irving, Texas, alongside Fayez Sarofim & Co. will host the “Shoot for Gold” Sporting Clays Fundraiser event with monies raised set to support the USA Shooting Team’s participation in London.

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.

The 525 targets thrown in Men’s Skeet during the two-part U.S. Olympic Team Trials weren’t nearly enough to decide one of the nominees for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. For three worthy adversaries, Olympic fate would go to sudden-death with a 25-target shoot-out.

Untying a bag of experience that comes from being a three-time Olympian, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Parker, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, used some of that knowledge and claimed a gold medal at the Italy Rifle and Pistol World Cup May 17 in Milan.