NEWS

New Classic P14-45 From PARA USA

PARA USA announces a new edition to its Classic Series of P14-45 pistols that is designed for home defense. The new P14-45 with Light Rail provides home owners with a high capacity pistol with an integral light rail that will allow them to mount a variety of aftermarket lights, lasers or light and laser combinations to the pistol.


SIG SAUER introduces Adaptive Carbine Platform

SIG SAUER's Adaptive Carbine Platform (ACP) allows any handgun with an accessory rail to be quickly modified into a personal defense weapon or carbine style firearm. Regardless of the brand, most pistols equipped with an accessory rail can be mounted to the ACP without the need for modification to the base gun.


SIG SAUER Introduces 1911 Fastback

SIG SAUER introduces their Fastback series of 1911s. SIG SAUER engineers have redesigned the frame and mainspring housing to create a proprietary rounded backstrap, giving the Fastback a distinctive look and advantage for concealed carry.


Panteao Introduces New Paul Howe DVD

Panteao Productions introduces the latest instructional video from Paul Howe called Intro to Exterior Movement. This latest video takes viewers to the CSAT (Combat Shooting and Training) facility in Nacogdoches, Texas.


NRA Competitive Shooting Division Unveils NRA Club Champion Challenge

NRA's Competitive Shooting Division is unveiling the NRA Club Champion Challenge, a new recreational shooting event for people of all ages and skill levels held at the local clubs and ranges.


MidwayUSA Releases Master Catalog #35 - Digital Edition

MidwayUSA's Master Catalog #35 is the perfect guide to the over 100,000 products. As more and more Customers order online, we will focus on serving Customers through digital publications, eBlasts and continuous improvement to our website.


Ellett Brothers Contributes To Youth Shooting Sports

Ellett Brothers has proudly selected the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance to receive $25,000 raised from the silent auction held in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Ellett Brothers Dealer Showcase in Columbia, South Carolina.


Mississippi Highway Patrol Chooses Remington 870 Shotguns

The Mississippi Highway Patrol again chose the Remington® Model 870™ Police Magnum as their department-issued shotgun.


Jerry's Sport Center Named 2011 H&R Distributor Of The Year

Jerry's Sport Center was named the 2011 Distributor of the Year by Harrington & Richardson (H&R) at the Freedom Group booth during the 2012 Shot Show in Las Vegas, NV.


Kanawha Sheriff's Office Selects Bushmaster

Bushmaster Firearms International (BFI) proudly announces that the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office of West Virginia recently purchased 50 custom-built Bushmaster 5.56mm rifles.


Shooting Industry Asks Dealers: What Will Be the Best-Selling Products of 2012?

An incredible number of new products are being introduced in 2012. And industry observers, media and others are making their selections and predictions regarding the best new products. Shooting Industry magazine wants to know what firearm dealers think will be the best-selling products of 2012. They've launched a survey asking two key questions: What 2012 firearm do you think will be a best seller with your customers? What other products do you think your customers will make best sellers in 2012? To take part in the survey, visit http://www.shootingindustry.com. Facebook fans can link to the survey at http://www.facebook.com/shootingindustry.


Texas Man Sentenced to Prison for Straw Purchase

Lying to buy almost two dozen firearms destined for Mexico has netted a Pharr, Texas, man a prison term. Jesus Rodriguez, 26, of Pharr, Texas was sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to lying on an ATF Form 4473 when he acquired twenty firearms.


Baron-Engraged 2012 SHOT Show Rifle Raises Funds to Support Outdoor Traditions

The 2012 SHOT Show auction of a Winchester Model 1892 takedown rifle fully engraved by Baron Engraving yielded more than $12,000 for programs in support of America's hunting and shooting sports heritage.


NSSF Will Match Reward in Gun Store Burglaries

The National Shooting Sports Foundation announces it will match the $5,000 reward offered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Crime Stoppers of Houston and local law enforcement agencies for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for eight burglaries at Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) in the Houston area. Two hundred seventy-four guns have been stolen in recent burglaries.


Training & Targets This Week on Gun Talk Radio

It's training, targets, and obtaining a firearm in D.C., this week on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk (R) Radio, the original nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports.


World Championships Contenders Set Sights on Vegas

Archers across the globe are getting geared up for Vegas. Though Las Vegas offers top quality entertainment, perhaps none will be more exciting than the gold medal showdown at the World Archery Indoor Championships. Number one world ranked archer Brady Ellison, along with his teammates, is focused on winning the first-ever individual recurve men's gold medal for the U.S. in a World Indoor Championship.


Benelli USA Named Friends of NRA TV Sponsor

The NRA Foundation announces its partnership with Benelli USA as a Sharpshooter Sponsor for the Friends of NRA TV show.


Mossberg Announces ZMB Series of Guns

The latest craze in the realm of shooting competitions, zombie-themed fun shoots, has a new player on the field in 2012 - the Mossberg ZMB Series including a specialty lever-action .30-30 Win rifle and 12-gauge pump-action shotguns. Initial offerings include the 464™ ZMB lever-action rifle, 500® ZMB 8-Shot pump-action shotgun and 500 Chainsaw ZMB 6-Shot pump-action shotgun. All three guns have the lime green "ZMB" logo proudly emblazoned on the receiver and boast the most highly-desired zombie-slaying features.


Crimson Trace Launches The Rail Master Laser

Crimson Trace announces the release of their new Rail Master platform for all rail-equipped firearms. The $149 MSRP laser sight features a tap on/tap off switch, with four interchangeable inserts to enable a custom fit to any handgun.


Team MidwayUSA Members Compete at the 2012 Mammoth Sniper Challenge

Braving brisk winter weather in Park City, Kentucky, six employees from MidwayUSA traveled to the Rockcastle Shooting Center to compete in the 2012 Mammoth Sniper Challenge.


Leupold's® New Mark 6™ 1-6x20mm M6C1 Riflescope

Leupold's® Tactical Optics Division introduces the Mark 6™ 1-6x20mm M6C1, a compact and exceptionally fast, versatile riflescope for military warfighters, law enforcement personnel and competition shooters.


Leupold's® New Mark 6™ 3-18x44mm M5B2 Riflescope Built for Shooting Speed and Versatility

Designed by Leupold's® Tactical Optics Division for optimal versatility and efficient performance, the Mark 6™ 3-18x44mm M5B2 riflescope comes in a small, light package well suited to military, law enforcement and competitive shooting applications.


North American Arms Becomes Bronze Level Sponsor In SAF Sponsorship Program

The Second Amendment Foundation today announced that North American Arms joined the SAF's new corporate sponsorship program at the Bronze level.


FEATURE

Fireworks Expected Next Week...But No Celebration

Next week, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will once again question United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder about Operation Fast and Furious. F&F was the fatally flawed 2009 DEA anti-gunrunning operation supposedly designed to trace illegal firearms to Mexican drug lords.

Instead, it went tragically out of control, resulted in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and has subsequently pointed an incriminating finger at the ATF and Justice Departments for mistakes that have cost lives on both sides of the border.

It's a meeting that's not shaping up to be one of cordiality. In fact, civility may be in short supply, despite the normal formalities of government.

That's because Patrick J. Cunningham, chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix, exercised his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify before Issa's committee on January 24.

In reponse, a boiling mad Issa made it clear to AG Holder that Cunningham's decision "is a major escalation of the (Justice) Department's culpability" in the ongoing gun trafficking battle.

A blunt two-page letter from Issa to Holder says "Without Mr. Cunningham's testimony, it will be difficult to gauge the veracity of some of the Department's claims."

"Main Justice," Issa wrote, has chosen to blame the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, and senior officials in the U.S. Attorney's Office have rejected this accusation. This tension reviews doubts about the Department's management of the Fast and Furious scandal."

It's safe to say that Issa will push the Attorney General - hard- for real answers. Observers say there's really no way of knowing just how high tensions will get before one-or both- lose their cool. Issa's tired of what never-ending stonewalling from the DOJ. Mr. Holder, as the head of the DOJ, has made it plain he's feeling the heat and not reacting particularly well to what he calls Issa's "game of political gotcha".

One of the men most responsible for refusing to allow Fast and Furious to be ignored by the mainstream media won't be in Washington, but he'll be on the job via the wonders of modern communication.

David Workman, shooter, outdoorsman and journalist.
Dave Workman has reported on the whole Fast and Furious mess since before it became a widely-known national story. And I wanted you to know the guy we all owe for his tireless work running down this story.

As Senior Editor of GUN WEEK, now TheGunMag.com, Workman's doggedly followed the trail of Fast and Furious, frequently breaking details on the story that have sent the Washington media establishment into fits. Fast and Furious isn't exactly a story the mainstream media's followed closely.

Workman has serious reportorial chops, and "in his earlier life" won a host of awards for his hunting and fishing work. He's also author of "several books" including four or five with gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb. His work also appears in Gun World, Gun Digest and and Northwest Sportsman magazines.

Last week I had the opportunity to visit with Workman about Fast and Furious. During that conversation, I was fascinated as he told me that one reason the story seemed to refuse to die was because many at the ATF and the Department of Justice didn't want the story to die. They, like many of the rest of us, were incensed at the way a program could go so dangerously off the rails and still be allowed to continue.

At the same time, I realized that Workman's efforts to keep the story alive were done out of respect for the law, not a misbegotten need to embarrass officials. He's concerned that "justice" remain part of the Department of Justice, and that concern drives him to work the Fast and Furious story.

"This story," he told me, "isn't just about an operation out of control, it's about the way government seems to have forgotten that it is supposed to work for the good of the people, not the other way around."

Like many of us, Dave Workman is angry about Fast and Furious. But he's not letting his anger get in the way of his accurately reporting the facts as the story develops. He still believes that if given the facts, the public will generally make the right decisions. He doesn't seem quite so convinced the government would exercise such common sense.

You needed to know Dave Workman, because he's quietly doing work that's important to all of us. I'm glad he's out there and fortunate to consider him both a colleague and friend.

As always - and thanks in no small part to the efforts of professionals like Dave Workman- we'll keep you posted.

--Jim Shepherd

Editor's Note: You can read Congressman Holder's letter to Attorney General Holder for yourself. Click here.



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