Ammunition

The NRA Competitions Division recently announced four bits of news important to shooters:

Administrator's Note: We saw Frank Brownells' advice in the March 27 Brownells Web Bench e-letter and thought his comments about current AR15 market shortages were on point. We got permission to post them on GunReports.com.

or 2009, Butler Creek introduces a Strip Loader for Mini-14 rifles. This lightweight strip clip loaders make it easy to load magazines from clips.

The U.S. Military has awarded Winchester Ammunition a five-year contract with a maximum value of $30 million for 9mm frangible training ammunition.

The Department of Defense has announced it has scrapped a new policy that required destruction of fired military cartridge brass.

The attack on gun ownership has begun in earnest, but in an asymmetrical way. Log on to the Georgia Arms website, and you’ll see this notice: Due to new government regulations concerning the purchasing of surplus brass, we are removing sales of all 223 and all 308 until further notice.

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Brady Campaign has released its annual state scorecards, which the group claims 'rate each state on the strength of its gun laws.'

Winchester Ammunition is adding a 12-gauge, 2-3/4-inch, 1-ounce load to the Super-Target line.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Winchester Ammunition's new Super-X Power Max Bonded(TM) is being billed as a whitetail deer jacketed bullet design.

DURHAM, NC -- An effort to get Durham officials to seek legislation that would require people buying ammunition to first obtain a permit has touched off a lobbying campaign by both supporters and opponents.

The German firm Brenneke is introducing its Quik-Shok Copper centerfire rifle bullets to the U.S.

The new Winchester Supreme Elite Dual Bond bullets, introduced for 2009 in big-bore handgun cartridges and shotgun slug product lines, uses a'bullet within a bullet' design that splits into 12 segments.