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The NRA-ILA 'Jay M. Littlefield Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award' is an annual honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of our Second Amendment rights. Similarly, the 'NRA-ILA Volunteer Organization of the Year Award' is bestowed upon a group that has gone above and beyond in defending and promoting our rights over the past year.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation will file to intervene in the frivolous lawsuit brought today by the Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency to ban traditional ammunition containing lead components.

Anschütz has introduced the MSR RX22 small-bore tactical training rifle, a full-featured, precision .22-caliber training and small-game hunting rifle.

The NRA’s Florida lobbyist, Marion Hammer, sent a survey on behalf of the NRA and the United Sportsmen of Florida, whom she also represents, to sheriff candidates around the state for the first time ever earlier this month. The questions involve important issues such as the state’s Stand Your Ground law and the sheriffs’ opposition to an “open carry” bill.

Austin Miller from GunReports.com talks with Brooks from Thompson Machine at the Silencers Are Legal Shoot at Elm Fork Shooting Range in Dallas. Thompson Machine is a Florida-based company in operation since 1991 providing rapid prototyping and design services. They offer a line of suppressors engineered for full user serviceability.

Criminals will have trouble finding any appeal in [an offer to turn in their guns]. In the first place, their weapons may have cost far more than $100, as handguns and long guns of good quality usually do.

One of the featured auctions at GunAuction.com this week is a scarce and collectible pre-war Smith & Wesson revolver listed by “jackthedog.” Auction #11136938 is for a “.44 Hand Ejector, 2nd Model Target,” a .44 Special built on S&W’s big N-Frame with five screws. This no-reserve Penny Auction is generating a lot of interest, accumulating 36 bids in about 48 hours, with the high bid being $1,806 at one point.

A recent post on CheaperThanDirt.com's 'Shooter's Log' blog has generated hundreds of customer comments in response to a simple question: 'Are You Buying Guns? Tell Us Why.'

There has been some good news related to guns lately, reports NRA-ILA. Pro-Second Amendment Gov. Scott Walker's 7-point victory in the recent recall elections in Wisconsin--a great victory for gun owners in its own right--calls into question Mr. Obama's ability to win that state, which he carried by 13 percentage points in 2008.

NRA's Education & Training Department will offer two new courses this summer: Defensive Pistol and Certified Advanced Pistol Instructor.

To most arms enthusiasts the stirrup-latch Webley is the quintessential British revolver, and they’re not wrong, according to a short item on NRABlog.com.

An Associated Press story published this week describes how a tiny Idaho town is aggressively courting firearms and firearms-accessory companies to get them to relocate from states that are unfriendly to guns.