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(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.'

(GunReports.com) -- An on-going attempt by the Associated Press to obtain the names of 1.3 million Illinois gun owners is nothing more than an effort to violate their privacy and expose them to possible harassment, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

(GunReports.com) – U.S. Congressmen Dan Boren of Oklahoma and Denny Rehberg of Montana have successfully amended H.R. 1, the Fiscal Year Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2011, to prohibit the use of federal funds for a new and unauthorized regulation currently being proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The Boren-Rehberg amendment prevents the ATF from circumventing the will of Congress by centralizing records of thousands of Americans’ rifle purchases without any legal authority.

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(GunReports.com) -- The following list, compiled by the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, documents which organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their name in support of specific campaigns to pass anti-gun legislation such as the March 1995 HCI 'Campaign to Protect Sane Gun Laws.' Many of these organizations were listed as 'Campaign Partners,' for having pledged to fight any efforts to repeal the Brady Act and the Clinton 'assault weapons' ban. All have officially endorsed anti-gun positions.

(GunReports.com) – The new Taurus Protector Polymer Series has a hybrid-polymer frame to make the revolver lightweight and easy to carry. MSRPs will range between $445 and $461.

(GunReports.com) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: Reservist John Buol Jr., editor of American Gunsmith magazine, introduces the A drill useful for handgun shooting, the Bullet Hole drill is explained by MSG George Harris. Get 3 yards away, shoot once on a blank target, use that as our aiming area. If you use the front sight on top of that hole, the shots should either group on the shot, or if the sight isn't zeroed, group together off the hole. 2: GunReports.com's Kevin Winkle interview's S&W's Jerry Miculek on coming introductions to the Performance Center line. The new AR barrel has a melonite finish on the inside, so the barrel life is almost 4X the standard AR. 3: Here's a pistol drill from Viking Tactics. The Reload Drill will be part of Viking's Pistol DVD 1.