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(GunReports.com) -- Emily Miller continues to do excellent gun reporting at the Washington Times. Her latest: 'While Army Sgt. Matthew Corrigan was sound asleep inside his Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of his home. SWAT and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams spent four hours readying the assault on the English basement apartment in the middle of the snowstorm of the century.

Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, writes Breitbart.com legal contributor Ken Klukowski, a member of the faculty at Liberty University School of Law.

Greg Ellifritz, a full-time firearms and defensive tactics training officer for a central Ohio police department and the president of Active Response Training, recently posted an extensive self-study of cartridge and shotshell stops in the Shooter's Log at CheaperThanDirt.com.

On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was abandoning the effort to ban recreational shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona.

Jeff Knox at www.FirearmsCoalition.org wrote recently, '[Less than] 200 days away from what will undoubtedly be one of the most important elections in US history, and most of the country still isn't even paying attention yet. Of course, those of you reading this have been paying attention for years, even decades, but that's because you're all freaks and oddballs like me. At least that's what the majority thinks of us.'

Gun Rights Examiner reporter David Codrea wrote recently, 'An early May robbery at the Washington, D.C. home of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was the second time the jurist has been victimized since February, The Washington Post reported Thursday. While no one was home in this latest incident, the earlier one involved the jurist and his wife being confronted by a machete-wielding home invader at their Caribbean vacation house.'

The 525 targets thrown in Men’s Skeet during the two-part U.S. Olympic Team Trials weren’t nearly enough to decide one of the nominees for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. For three worthy adversaries, Olympic fate would go to sudden-death with a 25-target shoot-out.

Sean Caranna, Executive Director of Florida Carry, Inc. has tracked down how anti-gun staffers associated with the Mayors Against Illegal Guns group are paid with public money. He details the scam on his blog, All Nine Yards:

Untying a bag of experience that comes from being a three-time Olympian, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Parker, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, used some of that knowledge and claimed a gold medal at the Italy Rifle and Pistol World Cup May 17 in Milan.

USA-based Kahr Arms and its family of firearms that also includes Magnum Research Inc. and Auto Ordnance, recently made a $50,000 donation to the Wounded Warrior Project.

California State Senator Leland Yee is moving to outlaw the “bullet button,” an AR-15 accessory that enables “fixed” magazines to be removed quickly with the tip of a bullet or other pointed object.

LEGO Heavy Weapons: Build Working Replicas of Four of the World’s Most Impressive Guns by Jack Streat gives instructions on how to build 1:1 LEGO replicas of “the world’s most iconic firearms.”