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(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) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: GunReports.com's Kevin Winkle gets the lowdown on Steiner's 2011 glass offerings. 2: Learn how to install the Blackhawk SpecOps Recoil Reducing Adjustable Shotgun Buttstock and forend. 3: Sig Arms Academy Director of Training and USAR Team shooting coach George Harris talks about competition shooting. What good is competition? Competition puts stress on you and teaches you how to use stress to your advantage.

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(GunReports.com) -- The use of manual processes for surface finishing operations can be far more costly than properly automating the processes with the right tools. Repetitive motion tasks and other ergonomic deficiencies not only result in discomfort and injuries, but also in operator fatigue that shrinks productivity and compromises product quality.

(GunReports.com) -- President Obama's well-intentioned Sunday essay on gun rights in a Tucson newspaper demonstrates that he — and probably his entire administration — remains confused about firearms safety and gun control, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Monday.

(GunReports.com) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: Sig Arms Academy Director of Training and USAR Team shooting coach George Harris talks about competition shooting. What good is competition? Competition puts stress on you and teaches you how to use stress to your advantage. 2: NSSF's Ryan Cleckner explains the measurement term 'minute of angle' (MOA) and how to use MOA adjustments on your scope for sighting in and to compensate for bullet drop at varying distances. 3: Ruger's Beginner's Guide to Shooting Competitions series takes you through a variety of matches to help you find an event that's right for you. In this episode we take a close look at the biathlon rifle and how it is specialized to this specific sport. US Ski Team member Annelies Cook tells you why the biathlon rifle is so very different than anything else on the market.

(GunReports.com) - President Obama, congressional Democrats and the nation's mayors appear to be working in tandem to 'fix the nation's broken background check system.' They also want to 'close the loophole' that allows private sales of guns between individuals, according to CNSNews.com.

(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.'