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Hunter Numbers Up 9% Between 2006 and 2011, Preliminary National Report Shows

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.

Colorado University-Boulder allows guns in some family housing units

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.

Thai Member of Parliament ‘accidentally kills secretary’ with UZI

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.

$5K+ prizes available in Youth Wildlife Art Contest

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.

Current London 2012 Olympic Shooting Results

Here are current 2012 shooting-event results from the London Olympic Games, with finishes for U.S. shooters.

Emmons Takes Bronze in Men’s 50-meter 3-Position-Rifle Event

New Jersey resident Matt Emmons finished third in the men’s 50-meter 3-position-rifle event earlier this week.

Anti-Hunting Twitter Mob Urges Olympic Shotgunner Corey Cogdell to Shoot Herself

Corey Cogdell is a Trap Shooter who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, placing 11th in Women’s Trap. She also hunts wild game. After Cogdell published photos on Facebook of herself posing alongside animals she killed, anti-hunting activists took to Twitter to threaten and insult her, the political website Twitchy.com

Double trap shooters ambushed in London

U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit shotgun shooters Staff Sgt. Josh Richmond and Sgt. Glenn Eller fell short of their lofty expectations in Olympic double trap Wednesday at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

USA’s Vincent Hancock wins gold in men’s skeet shooting

Ignoring rain during the final, the USA's Vincent Hancock won his second gold medal in in men’s skeet shooting. His score of 148 broke the Olympic skeet record of 145 he set en route to his first Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008.

Armed Utah citizen stops knife attack

Here is a video that didn’t get national coverage because a responsible, armed, trained citizen was present and took care of a threat immediately.

American Gray finishes fifth in Olympics first medal event

Jamie Gray, wife of a U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Soldier, finished in fifth place overall in the 10-meter air rifle after scoring a 499.7 in the first of her two Olympic events.

Methodist Church politicizes Aurora deaths, attacks NRA, calls for gun bans

The national United Methodist Church didn't just call for prayer after the cinema shootings. Instead, the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church & Society stepped up on the bodies of the dead and wounded in Colorado to call for a ban on handguns and semi-auto defense rifles.

Ammo Price Increases Are Coming

Since President Donald Trump’s announcement on April 4 about new tariffs — a 10% blanket tariff on all imports, plus targeted reciprocal tariffs —...