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A House panel voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt for failing to cooperate with a congressional inquiry into Operation “Fast and Furious,” hours after President Obama asserted executive privilege over related documents, the Washington Post reports.

The NRA-ILA 'Jay M. Littlefield Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award' is an annual honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of our Second Amendment rights. Similarly, the 'NRA-ILA Volunteer Organization of the Year Award' is bestowed upon a group that has gone above and beyond in defending and promoting our rights over the past year.

The NRA’s Florida lobbyist, Marion Hammer, sent a survey on behalf of the NRA and the United Sportsmen of Florida, whom she also represents, to sheriff candidates around the state for the first time ever earlier this month. The questions involve important issues such as the state’s Stand Your Ground law and the sheriffs’ opposition to an “open carry” bill.

A recent post on CheaperThanDirt.com's 'Shooter's Log' blog has generated hundreds of customer comments in response to a simple question: 'Are You Buying Guns? Tell Us Why.'

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.