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Kowa Sporting Optics's newest product is the TSN-IP4S iPhone adapter for the iPhone 4 and 4S models. It's an easy way for digiscopers who also own the iPhone 4/4s to capture photos and videos through Kowa BD, SV, and YF 30 to 50mm binoculars and Kowa TSN-880/770 spotting scopes.

Galco Gunleather’s KingTuk IWB holster now accepts Glock pistols with Viridian C Series lasers attached. This new KingTuk variant also includes built-in, patent-pending ECR technology which automatically activates the light/laser as the pistol is drawn.

The number of hunters age 16 and older in the United States increased 9 percent between 2006 and 2011, reversing a previous downward trend, a preliminary report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Department of the Interior shows.

Freedom Group, Inc. (FGI), which owns Remington, Bushmaster, DPMS, Marlin, and others, has named Scott Blackwell as president. Blackwell served as chief sales and marketing officer since 2010. As president, Blackwell will oversee all revenue, branding, marketing and communications for FGI.

The University of Colorado will not allow students to bring guns into the Boulder campus dorms this fall, though residents who have concealed-carry permits will be allowed to keep weapons in a limited number of family housing units, school officials announced.

You may recently have seen some in the Internet rumor mill feverishly stirring up fear about recent acquisitions of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security and a number of smaller agencies. The mildest writers have questioned why seemingly mundane agencies would need ammunition at all; more incendiary authors wrongly suggest that these government agencies are preparing for a war with the American people, NRA-ILA comments.

GunBroker.com is giving away a Springfield Armory XD-S to new and existing GunBroker.com registered users.

Antonio Zoli has introduced the Z Trap Unsingle shotgun, based on the Z Series action with removable trigger mechanism.

Police in Thailand say that they will charge a member of the Thai parliament with causing death by negligence for accidentally shooting his secretary dead with a submachine gun, the BBC reports.

Charter Arms has added a new 9mm Rimless Revolver to the company’s popular Pitbull series.

A House committee filed a civil suit Monday seeking to override President Barack Obama’s first invocation of executive privilege and force the Justice Department to turn over documents related to a bungled gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious.

The National Rifle Association is now accepting entries for the 2012 George Montgomery/NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest. Running annually since 1987, the contest is open to students in grades 1 through 12, including home-schooled children. NRA membership is not required. The deadline to enter is November 5, 2012.