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HSUS Denied Insurance Coverage in Racketeering Lawsuit

GW: This from www.HumaneWatch.org

The Humane Society of the United States, two of its lawyers, and its affiliate the Fund for Animals have paid $15.75 million, along with other animal rights activists, as a multi-party settlement of a federal racketeering lawsuit. Now, HSUS put out a defiant statement—a rather odd tactic when you have egg on your face—claiming, among other things, that “We expect that a substantial portion, if not all, of the settlement costs to The HSUS and The Fund for Animals will be covered by insurance, and in the end, that no donor dollars from The HSUS will go to Feld.” (Feld is the owner of Ringling Bros. circus and sued HSUS.) HSUS CEO Wayne “I don’t love animals” Pacelle asserted, “In the end, no donor dollars from The HSUS will go to Feld.”

There’s just one small problem: HSUS doesn’t have any insurance coverage for this litigation. Read more

Non-Typical Stag Knives from Browning

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Morgan, UT – The new Non-Typical Stag Knives from Browning are a perfect combination of elegance and function. Featuring a genuine stag handle, skinner and drop point fixed blade versions of the knife are available for 2014. Both versions of the Non-Typical Stage Knives feature a 2-7/8″ hidden tang blade made of 9Cr18MoV stainless steel. Each knife is supplied with a top grain leather sheath. Among the most attractive and useful working blades Browning has ever offered, these new hunting knives were designed by hunting guide Russ Kommer. Suggested Retail value for both models is $122.00.

Bushnell Introduces New Trophy Cam Essential

Overland Park, Kan – Bushnell, an industry leader in high performance sports optics for 65 years and a market leader in the trail camera industry, has introduced the Trophy Cam Essential. With a one-year battery life and fast trigger speed, the Trophy Cam Essential might be the most affordable and dependable scouting tool on the market.

The Trophy Cam Essential was designed for the hunter who demands performance and reliability at an exceptional value. Featuring 32 low-glow LEDs, a 6MP camera, video mode and Field Scan technology, the Trophy Cam Essential isn’t lacking functionality.

By day the camera captures high resolution color images before switching to black and white nighttime images. Alternatively, video mode records footage from the field in 1-60 second clips with audio. Read more

HSUS and Co-Defendants Pay $15.75 Million in Racketeering Lawsuit

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) shows TV commercials of abandoned and abused cats and dogs, raising money off of the confusion that it’s a pet shelter umbrella group. (It doesn’t run a single pet shelter anywhere.) Maybe its commercials should instead show HSUS’s lawyers paying a racketeering settlement with their tails tucked between their legs.

This morning news broke that HSUS and its co-defendants, including two HSUS employees, have agreed to pay $15.75 million to settle a long-fought lawsuit filed against them under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act—a law that’s been used to go after the mob. Read more

World-class birding now at your fingertips on Beaver Island

Beaver Island, the largest Lake Michigan island, will welcome birders from around the Great Lakes starting Friday, May 23, for a dedication celebration at the trailhead of the new Beaver Island Birding Trail (BIBT).

BIBT encompasses more than 12,300 acres of public land and four Little Traverse Conservancy preserves. Interpretive signage explaining DNR habitat management objectives and birds to be seen will enhance birders’ and non-birders’ appreciation of the island’s diverse habitats. Read more

Coyote Hunting Halted in Five North Carolina Counties

RALEIGH, NC- The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is notifying the public that a U.S. District Judge has issued a court order prohibiting hunting of coyotes in Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Tyrrell and Washington counties, day or night, except under extremely limited circumstances. This notification is due to a lawsuit in which the Wildlife Resources Commission is alleged to have violated the federal Endangered Species Act by allowing coyote hunting in those counties where a non-essential experimental reintroduction of the red wolf is occurring. Read more

NSSF Offering Target Shooting Program Grants to Colleges

The National Shooting Sports Foundation is making a total of $100,000 in grants available to public and private colleges for start-ups of new target-shooting clubs and teams.

The grants are provided through NSSF’s Collegiate Shooting Sports Initiative, which has assisted more than 75 schools with building competitive and recreational shooting programs through more than $1 million in support. The program is credited with helping to spur growth in collegiate target shooting across the country. NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. Read more

Remington Announces Corporate Consolidation

The buzz around the industry early yesterday was that Advanced Armament Corp was being closed down and relocated. Before the end of business yesterday, employees at six Remington properties along with two production lines in Ilion, New York, were told their companies- and jobs- were relocating to Huntsville, Alabama. Read more

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR), announces an all-new Predator version of the Ruger American Rifle® – the 100% American-made rifle that set a new standard of excellence among full-featured, bolt-action rifles. The Ruger American Rifle® Predator model includes all the features of the original Ruger American Rifle®, plus a moss green stock, a heavier tapered, threaded barrel and a factory installed one-piece aluminum scope rail. It is available in six calibers – .223 Rem (featuring a 1:8 Twist), .204 Ruger, .22-250 Rem., .243 Win., 6.5 Creedmoor and .308 Win. Read more

From the Washington Times article:

Among the 36,000 immigrants whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released from custody last year there were 116 with convictions for homicide, 43 for negligent manslaughter, 14 for voluntary manslaughter and one with a conviction classified by ICE as “homicide-willful kill-public official-gun.” . . .