Product Warning And Recall Notice: Winchester® 5.56mm M855 62 Grain

From: http://www.thetacticalwire.com/story/283947

Olin Corporation, through its Winchester Division, is recalling one (1) lot of its 5.56mm M855 62 Grain PENE centerfire rifle ammunition.

Symbol Number: ZGQ3308
Lot Number: WCC10M106-004
Through extensive evaluation Winchester has determined the above lot of 5.56mm M855 ammunition may contain incorrect propellant. Incorrect propellant in this ammunition may cause firearm damage, rendering the firearm inoperable, and subject the shooter or bystanders to a risk of serious personal injury when fired.

DO NOT USE WINCHESTER® SYMBOL NUMBER ZGQ3308 LOT NUMBER WCC10M106-004 5.56mm M855 62 GRAIN PENE AMMUNITION. The ammunition Symbol Number and Lot Number are ink stamped on the outside of the 900-round shipping container, and on the outside of the 30-round carton as indicated here:

To determine if your ammunition is subject to this notice, review the Symbol Number and Lot Number. If it is Symbol Number ZGQ3308 and Lot Number WCC10M106-004 immediately discontinue use and contact Winchester toll-free at 866-423-5224 for free UPS pick-up of the recalled ammunition. Upon receipt of your recalled ammunition, Winchester will ship replacement ammunition directly to you.

This notice applies only to Symbol Number ZGQ3308 with Lot Number WCC10M106-004. Other Symbol Numbers or Lot Numbers are not subject to this recall.

CrossBreed Introduces The First Ever Modular Belly Band System

From: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/283849

-Top quality holster manufacturer CrossBreed Holsters, LLC is proud to partner with one of the most recognized trainers in the industry and owner of I.C.E. Firearm Training Services, Rob Pincus, in introducing the first ever Modular Belly Band System.

"This is the first system to combine the convenience and comfort of the standard belly band, with the consistency and efficient presentation of a kydex holster," says Rob Pincus, owner of I.C.E. Firearm Training Services.

Promatic Inc. Introduces the Running Boar

From: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/283812

Promatic, largest worldwide producer of commercial clay target throwing machines has introduced the Promatic Running Boar. The Running Boar was designed as a moving rifle target to allow you to improve your skill set with a hunting rifle.

The Running Boar features a 150' track, wireless remote for operation, speed control and directional target board that auto turns at each end of the track insuring the target is always facing the correct direction.

It's No Mystery: Miculeks Dominated Superstition Mountain Mystery 3-Gun

From: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/283777

Cheaper Than Dirt has proudly announced that Team Cheaper Than Dirt sponsored shooters Lena, Kay and Jerry Miculek competed in the 2013 Superstition Mountain Mystery 3-Gun Match in Mesa AZ, March 22-24, 2013.

The results were impressive: Jerry took top honors as the Match Champion, High Senior; Kay dominated as the Women's Open Champion and Lena won 2nd place in the Ladies Tactical Optics division and High Junior.

Summary of Select Firearm Violence

Summary of Select Firearm Violence
Prevention Strategies
Greg Ridgeway, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Institute of Justice
January 4, 2013

from: http://www.nraila.org/media/10883516/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf

On average there are about 11,000 firearm homicides every year. While there are deaths resulting from
accidental discharges and suicides, this document will focus on intentional firearm homicides. Fatalities
from mass shootings (those with 4 or more victims in a particular place and time) account on average for
35 fatalities per year. Policies that address the larger firearm homicide issue will have a far greater
impact even if they do not address the particular issues of mass shootings.
This document provides a cursory summary of select initiatives to reduce firearm violence and an
assessment of the evidence for the initiative.

A Columbine Survivor Tells President Obama To Man Up

FROM: http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2013/03/04/a-columbine-survivor-tells-president-obama-to-man-up/

Sometimes a person’s principled stance shines like warm sunlight through the densest political fog. That’s what Evan M. Todd’s letter to President Barack Obama has become. Evan had a gun held to his head by one of the two Columbine killers. They asked him why he should be allowed to live. He’s now showing them why.

He says he learned one fundamental thing from his encounter with evil: freedom matters and nothing is more fundamental to freedom than the right to self-preservation.

After convincing the Columbine killers not to murder him, Evan—though slightly wounded from a shotgun blast—helped other students escape from the school. One of the students he helped said, “Evan did everything in his power to keep the students around him calmed and reassured.” As a result of Evan’s conduct, the Boy Scouts of America awarded him its Honor Medal. The Colorado State Legislature also honored him with a commendation.

In the years since the murders at Columbine High School in 1999, Evan has spoken at hundreds of public and private high schools, colleges, churches, youth groups and more. He has spoken out on national news networks and radio shows. But it was his letter to President Barack Obama that surprised so many.

Is this true??!!!!! - Proof The Obama Administration Is Going After The Good Guys With Guns

FROM: http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2013/03/26/proof-the-obama-administration-is-going-after-the-good-guys-with-guns/

What got us to a time when the mainstream media thinks it’s a non-story that Chicago rated dead last in federal prosecutions of gun crimes while it earned the gruesome distinction of being the murder capital of the U.S.? Why is it that the National Rifle Association (NRA), a civil-liberties group with four-million-plus members, has to call journalists out for not reporting bloody and startling facts?

Last Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, held up a print out of a study done by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data-gathering and research organization run by Syracuse University, that found that out of 90 federal jurisdictions, in 2012 Chicago ranked last for prosecuting bad guys with guns. LaPierre asked, “Do you know where Chicago ranks in terms of enforcement of the federal gun laws? Out of 90 jurisdictions in the country, they ranked 90th. Why doesn’t NBC News start with, ‘Shocking news on Chicago. Of all the jurisdictions in the country, Chicago’s dead last on enforcement of the federal gun laws?’ Why doesn’t the national press corps, when they’re sitting down there with Jay Carney and the president and the vice president, why don’t they say, ‘Why is Chicago dead last in enforcement of the gun laws against gangs with guns, felons with guns, drug dealers with guns?’”

“Meet the Press” host David Gregory didn’t even shrug. He simply changed the topic with a question. Later, Gregory’s three liberal guests wouldn’t address the lack of prosecutorial zeal either.

However, David Burnham, co-director of TRAC, says LaPierre “had it 100 percent right. On a per-capita basis Chicago ranks dead last for prosecuting gun crimes.” Burnham explained that according to case-by-case U.S. Justice Department information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by TRAC, there were 52 prosecutions in Illinois North (Chicago) in 2012, or 5.52 per million in population. By this measure, compared with the 90 federal judicial districts in the U.S., the prosecution rate in Chicago was the lowest.

Shouldn’t journalists be asking why?