CCRKBA Blasts Anti-Gun Dems for “Pouring Gas on Grassroots”

BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun Capitol Hill Democrats just couldn’t resist further provoking the nation’s law-abiding gun owners with yesterday’s renewed push to ban ammunition even after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had temporarily stepped back from such a proposal on Tuesday, and it’s time for the public to smack them down hard, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

“Even though BATF moved its ammunition ban proposal to the shelf, Democrats started lobbying the Obama administration to push forward with a ban just as we expected,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “New York Congressman Eliot Engel has introduced legislation, and others Capitol Hill want BATF Director B. Todd Jones to “use his ‘existing authority’ to keep ‘dangerous ammunition out of our communities,’ according to a report in The Hill.

“What do the Democrats hope to achieve, other than to keep 90 million gun owners hopping mad,” Gottlieb wondered. “This push merely reinforces the notion that Democrats are the party of gun control hysteria, and that while they claim to support the Second Amendment, they’re determined to erode it every way possible. Read more

Ammunition, Gun Control

McRees Precision Pulls Trigger on 2015 POMA Confernce

GW:  So where does the line start?  See you in Springfiled for a test drive…

(GREENWOOD, MS) – McRees Precision, a Greenwood-based company (www.McReesPrecision.net), announced plans today to attend the 2015 Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) Conference, slated for March 18th – 20th, in Springfield, MO.

During the conference, McRees Precision plans to showcase their premium line of stock/chassis systems during the conference’s POMA Camps/Shooting Day as well as the highly popular Product Showcase. McRees Precision founder and nationally ranked competitive shooter, Scott McRee, and national champion shooter and Top Shot Season 2 Winner, Chris Reed, are scheduled to be on hand throughout the conference to discuss the company’s full line of products. “We know the power of POMA. Some of the world’s best hunting and shooting industry writers, photographers and videographers are part of POMA. So, that’s exactly where we want to be… building relationships with them,” explained McRee. Read more

Firearms

HSUS Still Puts Pensions Ahead of Pets

This from humanewatch.org…

PensionPuppyWhen people find out that Humane Society of the United States isn’t affiliated with local humane societies and doesn’t run any shelters of its own, they usually ask where the $130 million HSUS receives in contributions goes. The answer: Not to local pet shelters. Instead, it funds HSUS’s fat cat CEO, pays for lobbyists and lawyers, or gets socked away at Caribbean hedge funds ($50 million in 2012 and 2013 alone). It also paid millions to settle a federal racketeering lawsuit.

Here’s a metric of just how rotten HSUS is: In each of the past four years, HSUS has funneled more money to its own pension fund than it has contributed to help local pet shelters care for pets – you know, the shelters that actually provide care for the animals HSUS claims to love so much in their commercials. Since 2010, HSUS has dumped nearly $10.7 million into pensions – 3.7 times more than the $2.9 million it has given to local pet shelters. Here’s the most recently available data:

Year Pension contributions Shelter Donations
2010  $2,693,201  $528,676
2011  $2,493,898  $307,708
2012  $2,978,586  $1,028,586
2013  $2,520,588  $1,012,142
Total  $10,686,273  $2,877,112

  It doesn’t take long to see that HSUS is really all about one thing: Helping itself. Read more

Animal Rights

Vote for Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park as ‘Best State Park’ in USA Today 10Best contest

  Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park currently holds 2nd place in the competition for the title of Best State Park in the nation in USA Today’s 10Best Travel Awards.
Visitors and fans of the park can vote daily through March 30 at 11:59 a.m. to help the Porkies win this national title, so vote and spread the word about this great opportunity for national recognition of Michigan’s woods and waters!
Individuals can vote every day, and from every internet-enabled device (tablet, phone, computer). The voting page, which includes the current rank, is available at http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-state-park/porcupine-mountains-wilderness-state-park-mich/. Read more

General, Wildlife

Birds Identified as Hosts of Lyme Disease

Today’s feature first appeared in this week’s edition of our companion service, The Birding Wire (www.birdingwire.com).

UC Berkeley researcher Erica Newman, pictured in front of chaparral, where she studies bird communities. Chaparral biodiversity, including bird communities, is largely understudied because of the difficulty of detecting wildlife in dense shrub habitats. Image Credit: David Hembry

Birds are more important than previously recognized as hosts for Lyme disease-causing bacteria, according to a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is responsible for Lyme disease, was known to be carried by white-footed mice, wood rats, western gray squirrels, and other small mammals, but fewer studies have looked at the role of birds as reservoirs.

“The role of birds in the maintenance of Lyme disease bacteria in California is poorly understood,” said lead author Erica Newman, a UC Berkeley PhD student. “This is the most extensive study of the role of birds in Lyme disease ecology in the western United States, and the first to consider the diversity of bird species, their behaviors, and their habitats in identifying which birds are truly the most important as carriers.”

Moreover, the birds in the study that were found to be important hosts of Lyme disease bacteria — such as American robins, dark-eyed juncos and golden-crowned sparrows — are coincidentally ones that are commonly found in suburban environments.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States. There are approximately 300,000 cases each year, with the large majority occurring in the eastern United States. Read more

Wildlife

NRA Now Accepting Applications For Competitive Shooting Camps

FAIRFAX, Va. – The National Rifle Association is now accepting applications for its annual competitive shooting camps for junior shooters. These camps, run by the Coach Education Program, help young shooters aged 12-21 develop their marksmanship skills from casual to competitive through challenging and rewarding lessons.

“These camps have everything you need to take your game to the next level,” said NRA National Coach Trainer Daniel Subia. “Each day will be filled with exercises designed to help you master your body positioning, breath, and trigger control to consistently shoot high scores. You’ll be tired at the end of each day, but you’ll also leave a better shooter than you were before.” Read more

Firearms

LUCID Introduces New P7 4X Weapons Optic

LUCID Optics, a Wyoming based manufacturer of weapons mounted optics and firearm accessories, Is proud to announce the new P7 4X Optic at a ($439MSRP) to their growing product line.

The P7 offers fast-targeting with a highly useful ballistic MOA measuring tape in the reticle. This reticle is specifically designed to offer the fast target acquisition necessary in a combat optic, along with highly useful MOA measuring tape with ballistic hold-over information up to 80 MOA in elevation. This allows for the operator to manage any target with relative ease, near or far.

An auto brightness sensor is standard, as well as reversible mounting pins. The entire optic runs up to 2500 hours on a single AA battery. Waterproof, shockproof and fogproof the P7, weighing in at only 19 ounces, is up to the challenge of any mission.

Other key features include, an adjustable ocular focus, chemical rubber armor, 25mm ocular lens, auto shut off, 10 brightness levels, 30mm objective lens and eye relief of 3.25″. Read more

Optics

Lyman Introduces New Pro-Touch Reloading Scale

Lyman Products is proud to introduce the latest addition to our line of Reloading Scales and Powder Systems – The New Pro-Touch 1500.

Lyman’s Pro-Touch 1500 scale features a large, touch screen display with easy-to-read 7/8″ tall numbers and full size control buttons. The Pro-Touch 1500 is accurate to +/ – 1/10 grain over its full 1500 grain capacity. The dual spout powder pan allows for easy use by either right-handed or left-handed reloaders. The removable dust cover will protect the scale when not in use. The Pro-Touch 1500 will operate with either the supplied AC power adapter or with three AAA batteries (not included).

• Advanced Touch-Screen Technology
• 1500 Grain Capacity
• Accurate to 1/10 Grain
• Works in Grain or Gram Mode
• Removable Dust Cover
• Large, Easy to Read Digital Display with Full Size Control Buttons

Pro-Touch Desktop Reloading Scale (115V) (#7750718) MSRP: $99.95 Read more

Ammunition
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