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(GunReports.com) -- Auction Arms, the official auction site of the NRA, and GunReports.Com have announced a letter of intent to establish the Auction Arms News Bureau, a weekly E-Letter that will deliver gun news, pricing trends and other information for the serious shooter.

(GunReports.com) — For at least the rest of the week, GunReports.com will continue to compile links to stories that document the threats being made to 2nd Amendment and other speech and property rights under the pretext of the Tucson tragedy.

(GunReports.com) -- The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for December 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (1,133,371) show a 9.9 percent increase over NSSF-adjusted figures from December 2009 (1,031,344). For calendar year 2010, the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 9,436,182 is a decrease of 1 percent over the NSSF-adjusted figure of 9,534,131 in calendar year 2009.

(GunReports.com) -- A release from the CCRKBA: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is condemning Saturday's attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murders of six people including a federal judge and a 9-year-old child, for which a 22-year-old Tucson man is now facing charges.

(GunReports.com) -- Gun Owners of America issued an email alert in response to New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy's call for magazine and gun show bans in the wake of shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend.

(GunReports.com) -- ATF is moving to require 8,500 federally licensed firearms retailers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of modern sporting rifles beginning Jan. 5. Specifically, the ATF requirement calls for these retailers to report multiple sales, or other dispositions, of two or more .22 caliber or larger semi-automatic rifles that are capable of accepting a detachable magazine and are purchased by the same individual within five consecutive business days.

(GunReports.com) - As a result of a recent anti-hunting court ruling, the U.S. Forest Service is starting a formal review of its Management Plan for the Huron-Manistee National Forest to consider banning hunting with firearms in some areas.

(GunReports.com) -- A case brought against Cook County challenging its 'assault weapon' ban passed in 2006, been decided favorably for the Illinois State Rifle Association-backed plaintiffs. The case of Wilson, et al. vs Cook County et al., was returned to the State Appellate Court pursuant by the state Supreme Court, which also ordered the First District Appellate Court to vacate its decision and reconsider the case based on the recent decision in McDonald vs. City of Chicago.

(GunReports.com) —The holidays are here. As hunters, shooters, collectors or just plain plinkers, it's a natural instinct to want to share our enjoyment of firearms with others. What better way to do that than to make a gift of a firearm to a family member, close friend or relative?

(GunReports.com) -- From the GunPoliticsNY.com blog: Today is the 17th anniversary of the Brady Law and the Brady Bunch are celebrating. They are clearly hoping to relive their glory days.

(GunReports.com) -- The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has recommended that ATF impose multiple-sales-reporting requirements for long guns. In a report issued Monday, the OIG made 15 recommendations for changes and improvements to ATF’s Project Gunrunner (PGR) initiative on the “illicit trafficking of guns from the United States to Mexico.” The long gun reporting recommendation echoes a past proposal made by the anti-gun Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) coalition in its ”Blueprint for Federal Action on Guns (2009).”

Following an unprecedented and robust midterm NSSF Voter Education campaign, including the establishment of an NSSF Political Action Committee, the 2010 elections proved to be exceptionally strong for pro-industry candidates at both the federal and state levels. In the election, Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives while picking up six seats in the Senate and 10 governorships.