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FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Frank Briggs, International Rifle Team coachand former head coach of the International Pistol and Service Rifleteams, will retire this month from the federal government. Briggs is one of only 19 International Shooting Sport Federation Class A coaches in the world.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The 2008 USA Shooting 3 X Air Match concluded with Tom Csenge, Brian Beaman, Sarah Scherer and Brenda Shinn claiming titles on the final day of competition.

WESTFIELD, Mass. — The Westfield Sportsman's Club has been indicted for running a gun fair with a machine-gun shoot for children in which an eight-year-old boy was accidentally killed.

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has launched a blog aimed at hunting down and correcting inaccuracies about firearms and the firearms industry.

From the Lebanon (PA) Daily News: A Lebanon woman yesterday sued a county sheriff who revoked her concealed-weapons permit after she upset fellow parents by wearing her holstered pistol to her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game.

This from a letter from Sarah Brady to a list of supporters: 'I was so excited when I heard that Rahm Emanuel was going to be the Chief of Staff in the Obama White House.'

The United States Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) has spoken out against U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) toppling Representative John Dingell (D- MI) as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

NORTH POLE, Alaska – The Anchorage Daily News reports that a homeowner interrupting a burglary in progress late last week morning opened fire on the intruder as the burglar approached him and his wife, Alaska State Troopers said.

GREENBELT, MD - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams has sentenced Leonard Stephan Lockley, age 28, of Bowie, Maryland, to 21 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for receiving and selling machine guns that he secreted out of Iraq while deployed as an Army soldier near Baghdad.

From the 'he-just-doesn't-get-it' file: Joseph J. Bobbitt, Jr., a resident of Dallas, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to 36 months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws.

…Palm Beach Post (FL) editorial writer Jac Wilder VerSteeg thumped a hornet's nest and got dozens of angry gun-owner responses with his Nov. 15 article, 'Muzzle all that gun paranoia.'

Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern, T.D. outlined his proposals to ban licensed handguns in that country.