Industry Notes

(GunReports.com) -- At the Berger Bulletin, accuracy shooters can learn a thing or two about VLDs and the next Hybrid wave of bullets. According to the Berger Bulletin, the Very Low Drag, or VLD, bullet design was created by Bill Davis, who was one of the top ballistic minds in the late 1980s. His contribution to the shooting sports has made a tremendous impact on how long range shooting has developed over the last two decades. One might think that nothing this good can be improved upon.

(GunReports.com) -- From Neal Knox Associates and the FirearmsCoalition.org: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is seeking public comment on their recent 'study' on the importability of certain shotguns. It is critical that rights supporters express their objections to this 'study' and its pending implementation in no uncertain terms.

(GunReports.com) -- The following release from the Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics will test your cognitive abilities, but the bottom line is that while there has been a dramatic drop in nonfatal violent crimes against people at work in the last several years, law enforcement personnel, security guards and bartenders are still at the highest risk of being hurt by someone else while at the job.

(GunReports.com) - Mossy Oak's new television series, Turkey THUG, began the 2011 season with exclusive shotguns from Mossberg. Mossberg's Turkey THUG series includes three shotguns with Turkey THUG Series engraved on the receiver. Select models are available in matte black or Break-Up Infinity®. The guns will be used exclusively on Turkey THUG in 2011 and 2012.

(GunReports.com) -- The Providence, Rhode Island Police Department has chosen to equip each of its officers with Smith & Wesson Military & Police (M&P) pistols for duty use. The department has received 510 Smith & Wesson M&P40 pistols chambered in .40 S&W and has begun the transition process to the new side arm.

(GunReports.com) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: Aimpoint's new offerings at SHOT Show 2011. 2: Insight's AA weapon light, WL1-AA, a first.‬ 3: American Tactical Imports covers the Just Right Carbine.

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(GunReports.com) — Steyr Arms' new C9-A1 pistol is nearly identical in form and function to the M-A1 full-size series (17-round magazine) and the S-A1 compact series with its 3.6-inch barrel.

(GunReports.com) – The NRA Foundation has accepted the donation of a unique Anniversary Model 1911 pistol from Colt’s Manufacturing Company that celebrates 100 years of the 1911.

(GunReports.com) -- President Barack Obama had a bylined op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. In it, he creates a fictional number of additional deaths attributable to guns since the Tucson shooting, suggests that gunowners ignore gun violence (we see it and want to protect ourselves from it!), blames states for shortfalls in the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) system rather than the federal government's implementation. But the real laugher is this: 'Third, we should make the system faster and nimbler. We should provide an instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent system for background checks to sellers who want to do the right thing, and make sure that criminals can't escape it.'

(GunReports.com) -- Elk hunters from Montana and New York have won chance-of-a-lifetime elk hunting experiences through special drawings offered nationally by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its sponsors. Winners were drawn during the RMEF annual convention, which concluded March 6 in Reno, Nev.

(GunReports.com) -- Winchester Repeating Arms will build the Model 1886 Short Rifle in a limited production run for 2011. The Winchester 1886 rifle was designed for the then-new 45-70 Government cartridge, developed by the U.S. Government in 1873.