NSSF’s Project ChildSafe Named Finalist for National Safety Council Award

Project ChildSafe recognized for contributions toward promoting firearms safety at national, local level.

CHICAGO — Project ChildSafe, the firearms safety education program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), was honored to be named among finalists vying for the National Safety Council’s 2018 Green Cross for Safety Awards, which were presented May 23. NSSF and Project ChildSafe’s selection as one of three finalists for the Excellence in Safety Award recognized the program’s continued commitment to helping prevent firearms accidents, thefts and misuse. Read more

The Remington Model 1911 R1 Tactical Series

Huntsville, AL – Built for precision and hard use, the Model 1911 R1 Tactical is the pinnacle of adaptability and is now available at retail.

Accuracy begins with an adjustable match-grade trigger, and its 5-inch match-grade stainless steel barrel, frame and slide tuned for consistent performance.  The PVD coating delivers reliably smooth operation and unparalleled durability.  The ambidextrous extended thumb safety allows easy operation in either hand, while its machined VZ Operator G10 grips, wide front and rear cocking serrations and checkered mainspring housing provide sure handling. The railed frame makes mounting accessories easy and fast.  And with Trijicon front and rear night sights, it’s ready to serve in any light.

 

Features and Benefits:

    • 5″ ramped, match-grade stainless barrel – For superb accuracy
    • Wide rear and front cocking Serrations – For positive grip regardless of ?eld conditions
    • Tritium front and rear sight – For rapid sight acquisition in low light
    • Extended beavertail grip safety – For sure grip in the field
    • Adjustable Skeletonized trigger – For a clean crisp break
    • Tough PVD finish – For durability in all conditions
    • VZ G10 Grips – For solid hold while fi?ring
    • Railed frame for accessory mounting
    • Stainless Steel frame and slide

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NRA’s Chris Cox to Serve on Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council

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NRA’s Chris Cox to Serve on Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council

Fairfax, Va.—  The executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, Chris W. Cox, will represent the 6 million members of the NRA on a newly formed panel that will advise the Trump administration on public land use policies on hunting and recreational shooting.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke created the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council to advise him and the Secretary of Agriculture on the establishment and implementation of policies regarding hunting, recreational shooting, and wildlife and habitat conservation. The Council will examine ways to benefit wildlife resources; encourage partnership among the public, the sporting conservation organizations, state, tribal, territorial, and federal government; and benefit hunting and recreational shooting sports. Read more

CMP Wants to Conduct a Small Arms Firing School (SAFS) at Your Club!

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is looking to expand the reach of its Small Arms Firing School beyond its regular schedule, which is held annually at the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, the CMP Travel Games at Oklahoma City Gun Club, Camp Butner – North Carolina, CMP Talladega – Alabama, New England Games at Camp Ethan Allen – Vermont and the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona.

Currently the CMP welcomes 400 to 800 attendees each year at the national Small Arms Firing School at Camp Perry as part of the National Matches.  CMP travel games SAFS programs serve between 40 and 100 participants per event. The CMP provides rifles and ammunition for all SAFS programs, home and away. Read more

NSSF Releases Statement in Wake of Santa Fe, Texas High School Shooting

Our hearts go out to victims and their families of the Santa Fe, Texas High School tragedy.

On behalf of the members of our industry, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has long advocated for effective solutions to prevent unauthorized access to firearms by children, criminals, the dangerously mentally ill and others who cannot be trusted to handle firearms in a safe and responsible manner. Members of the firearms industry believe that preventing the unauthorized access to firearms of any kind at any time can help prevent accidents and deter thefts, suicides and the criminal misuse of firearms.

At the center of this commitment is NSSF’s Own It? Respect it. Secure it.® initiative, which is built on the firearm industry’s long-standing commitment to safety and was developed to promote and encourage firearm safety and storage. It also serves to enhance and amplify the messages of ongoing firearm safety and education campaigns such as Project ChildSafe®, which has distributed more than 37 million free firearm safety kits which include a gun lock to gun owners through partnerships with law enforcement agencies in all 50 states.

The firearms industry welcomes participation in the conversation in Texas and across the nation to make our communities and our schools safer. We will continue to lead and participate in finding and enhancing practical solutions that protect lives and preserve our citizens’ liberties.

International Firearm Corporation Introduces the BUL 1911 Government Model

(Midwest City, Oklahoma) – International Firearm Corporation, exclusive importer of an elite selection of European firearms is proud to introduce the 1911 Government Model from BUL LTD of Israel to American shooters for the first time. International Firearm Corporation is the exclusive US importer and distributor of BUL pistols, and they are pleased to offer the new BUL 1911 Government Model to the United States. This firearm is a part of the BUL 1911 Classic Series- brand new for 2018 and at a retail price of $649, it is without question the best quality and best value on the market to date.

BUL TLD has been producing and specializing in the manufacturing of pistols since 1990. They’ve been a reputation on proven legacy and design, state of the art materials, machinery and technology, combined with superb craftsmanship that only master gunsmiths can deliver. The BUL 1911 Government Model is everything a 1911 should be- sleek, accurate, and set at a price everyone can afford.  It was created because the 1911 design has served in conflicts around the world, trusted by law enforcement as well as civilians for personal defense. It features a 5 inch barrel, front and rear slide serration, an enlarged safety lever, and mag well with full length G10 Grips. Priced at $649, nothing on the market compares to the premium quality of the BUL 1911 Government Model. Read more

M&P45 M2.0 in Flat Dark Earth

New M&P45 M2.0 in FDE features TRUGLO® TFX™ Sights

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Smith & Wesson Corp. today announced the newest addition to its growing line of M&P M2.0 pistols with the new M&P45 M2.0 in Flat Dark Earth (FDE) finish.  Chambered in .45 Auto, the M&P45 M2.0 pistol joins the previously released M&P9 and M&P40 M2.0 Flat Dark Earth pistols with TRUGLO TFX sights in the M&P M2.0 pistolline.  The pistol features a 4.6” barrel, no thumb safety, and ships with TRUGLO TFX sights for enhanced visibility in a variety of conditions. The new M&P45 M2.0 pistol is the first M2.0 pistol in a FDE finish that is chambered in the popular .45 Auto caliber. Read more

CDC and Firearms–By Their Numbers

GW:  So, more gun laws are the answer?  Then why have they not worked before?  While the answers may be multi-faceted, we do know man has never stamped out evil since the beginning of time.  Where there’s a will, there have always been the means.
By Michael D. Faw

I recently stopped in to take a look at some Center for Disease Controls—a federal agency—reports and came across First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws; Findings from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services.

This is the famous 2003 report that caused a lot of public scorn—and for good reasons.

In the very first paragraph this taxpayer funded report notes gun deaths in the US are declining. Here a federal agency admits what liberal mass media news outlets will not report. And for the 26,800 plus firearms related deaths reported and recoded in 2003, the numbers reveal 16,500 were suicides. Next, only about 10,000 firearms related deaths were homicides and about 700 of the recorded deaths were unintentional, equals accidents or other.

Thus, the recent NSSF program to combat suicides and prevent them is spot on.

Now, back to the numbers in this federally funded CDC report. Wow, there 1.4 MILLION violent crimes committed in 1999 in the US but only 24% involved the use of a firearm.  This ia LOW number! What is lacking is what was used in the other approximately 850,000 other violent crimes. Maybe there should be restrictions and ownership tests applied to baseball bats, knives, hammers and other if we want to save lives. A science-based study would have reported the numbers on the other contributors to those deaths. More interesting is that the CDC report indicates there are enough guns in the US that there is basically one per person. The report further reveals that the number of homes with firearms has been rising, from 35% to more than 40%.

More numbers from the report are: there are basically 192 million firearms owned in the United States (in a 1994 survey) and 65 million of those were handguns; 70 million were rifles; 49 million were shotguns; and the remainder were other guns (7). Among handgun owners, 34% kept their guns loaded and unlocked. An estimated 10 million handguns, one sixth of the handguns owned, were regularly carried by their owners, approximately half in the owners’ cars and the other half on the owners’ persons.

Due to increased firearms sales, especially handguns, from 2004 to 2016 because of federal government leadership and an election and re-election, those ownership numbers have definitely risen, especially in the handguns category. This has been reported by firearms trade organizations and BATF. The fact that there are so many CC classes offered in communities, and resulting in CC licenses applied for, the number of firearms carried in the US has also risen—dramatically.

The CDC  report does note that the manufacture, distribution, sale, acquisition, storage, transportation, carrying, and use of firearms in the United States are regulated by a complex array of federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Then, however, the report takes a fatal jump and examines firearms laws as one of many approaches to reducing firearms violence. But eventually this CDC report does note evidence was insufficient to determine the effectiveness of gun control and other anti-2A laws for the following reasons:

 

The numerous programs or groups of laws related to firearms and ownership were inconsistent in producing any noted results. These include: Bans on ammunition; restrictions on firearms acquisitions; studies on waiting periods; zero tolerance of firearms in schools (gun free zones); child access laws; shall issue laws; and combinations of firearms laws. All, again, were found inconsistent in doing anything to prevent a death by firearm.

The report sums the complete CDC study and effort with one telling sentence: “In summary, the Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence.” Like most government funded research, the report indicates more research is needed, um, “that more high-quality research is needed.” This effort has resulted in states calling homes and conducting firearm and health research, like the one recently done in Oregon, and in doctors asking patients questions about firearm ownership and placement in the home. Since doctors, however, are not trained to conduct professional surveys and focus groups, these questions and the resulting reports would be seriously flawed.

One thing missing is the cost to taxpayers of this 2003 CDC report. Funding for this and the other proposed reports became such an issue that it was eventually cut off. Now anti-gun groups are again trying to fund this anti-gun research effort because the first attempt did NOT meet their agenda. In fact, on the other side of the fence, this report revealed bans, gun-free zones, waiting periods and gun laws have accomplished NOTHING.

You can read the full report at: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm

 

Remington, Tomasie Collaborate on a USPCA and IPSC Accepted 1911

Huntsville, AL – In collaboration with Travis Tomasie, Remington developed the 1911 R1 Tomasie Custom.

“The 1911 R1 Tomasie Custom is an exact reproduction of my competition handgun. Working together with Remington engineers, we’ve developed a double stack 1911 that meets my demanding speci?cations, and is built with pride in Huntsville, Alabama.  Utilizing premium components, this pistol offers the consumer extraordinary accuracy, reliability, and shoot-ability,” said Travis Tomasie Captain, Team Remington World and National Shooting Champion.

“The R1 Tomasie Custom is chambered in 40S&W to meet Major Power Factor scoring, under the rules of the USPSA (United States Practical Shooting Association) and IPSC (International Practical Shooting Federation).  I personally inspect and test-?re every single R1 1911 Tomasie Custom.”

The Remington 1911 R1 Tomasie is now available at retail with an MSRP of $1650.00. Read more

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