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(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.

(GunTests.com) -- Rabbi Dovid Bendory, the Rabbinic Director for the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, has written an open letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioning his 'blatant disregard [for] the Second Amendment.

(GunTests.com) -- Larry and Brenda Potterfield of MidwayUSA will add an additional $15,000 in cash prizes for the 2011 MidwayUSA & NRA Bianchi Cup. First-time Men, Women & Junior competitors using a production firearm and achieving the highest aggregate score of all (4) four Championship Events will be awarded $2,500 for 1st Place, $1,500 for 2nd Place, and $750 for 3rd place.

(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.

(GunReports.com) -- From the GOA: Within the next 90 days, Congress will vote on whether to reauthorize legislation to specifically allow the government potential access to millions of gun records (4473s).

(GunReports.com) -- In the world of 308 Win./7.62 NATO auto-loading rifles, the M14 and its look-alikes reign just about supreme. They have it all, looks, power, function, capacity, plus a great variety of stock and accessory configurations from wood to all manner of polymer that can convert an M14 or M1A into just about any configuration you might want, particularly if you have deep pockets. Gun Tests recently tested the Springfield Armory M1A, $1739. We tested with three types of ball ammunition, the only type recommended in these firearms. It was Federal Gold Medal match, Magtech 150-grain ball from Brazil, and mixed lot of recovered ammunition purchased in bulk with headstamps from Israel, Italy, Belgium, and Canada, which we used unsorted. Here’s what we found.

(GunReports.com) – MasterPiece Arms' new Protector Model, the MPA380P, is a US-manufactured conceal-carry pistol built on a machined 4140-stainless-steel lower receiver and upper slide.

(GunReports.com) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: Kevin Winkle of GunReports.com reports from SHOT Show 2011 in Las Vegas on the S&W MP22 handgun. This pistol is a joint project between Smith & Wesson and Walther, and is made in Germany. 2: Small arms instructor and AMU reserve shooting team member SFC Chris Hansen discusses trigger control and how to improve it. He says that shooters tend to ‘get hard’ on the trigger, or jerk it. The drill he discusses will improve trigger control without having to shoot the rifle. 3: The National Shooting Sports Foundation's 'Introduction to Range Safety and Etiquette' is an 8 minute video that rules of gun safety, eye and ear protection, range rules, and more.

(GunReports.com) -- For 2011, Beretta has debuted the Silver Pigeon I over/under shotgun and the A400 Xcel sporting shotgun. The Silver Pigeon 1's MSRP is $2075; the A400 Xcel has an MSRP of $1725.

(GunReports.com) -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms will hold a special event featuring the rolling 'Guns Save Lives' billboard on Wednesday between 10 and 11 a.m. at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, 7707 NW 103rd Street in Hialeah Gardens.

(GunReports.com) -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today that Attorney General Eric Holder's call for the Justice Department's inspector general to examine the 'Project Gunrunner' scandal is 'exactly what we called on him to do more than a week ago.'