Industry Notes

The Youth Shooting Sports Alliance (YSSA) recently announced that O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. has continued its support of the YSSA with a donation of 42 new Mossberg shotguns.

Once President Obama announced the return of 34,000 servicemen and women from Afghanistan within a year, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said that it will continue providing free firearm safety materials, including gun locking devices, to America's returning armed services members. NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry.

Birchwood Casey's Shoot-N-C Targets are known for leaving a bright ring around bullet holes for instant feedback. For 2013, Birchwood Casey has introduced Shoot-N-C Pink Reactive Targets.

The MidwayUSA Foundation, Inc. and Scholastic Shooting Trust, a public charity established by MidwayUSA founders Larry and Brenda Potterfield, will continue to match both proceeds from its fundraising promotions as well as private donations to endowment accounts.

The new FederalPremium.com makes choosing the right ammunition quick and easy. Hunters and shooters can easily navigate the new website to find photography, educational graphics, and one-of-a-kind tools.

Harvey Berger, a Gun Tests reader who lists his home state as the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia, praised the just-published comparison of 40 S&W ammo in the February 2013 issue. But there’s a “but.” He wrote:

The ACULON A211 binocular officially launches Nikon’s all-new ACULON optics family to the world, with seven fixed-power and two zoom models.

As part of an ongoing national effort to help prevent illegal 'straw' purchases of firearms, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, is reminding the public along the Southern border in Texas and Arizona that stiff penalties are in place for individuals convicted of such purchases.

As discussions continue about gun and magazine bans, talking heads on the TV get their gun terminology all messed up. Maybe it's because the reference they're using isn't quite up to snuff:

A fired 12-gauge shotgun shell unleashes a column of shot from a shotgun barrel at about 1,200 feet per second – too fast for the human eye to see the pellets in flight. This can make it extremely difficult to master the correct lead on flying clay targets or game birds. What if that changed? What if it was possible to track the flight of the shot string? Thanks to Winchester Ammunition, it’s happening in 2013.

Rock Island Armory debuted the TCM 22 centerfire rifle at SHOT Show 2013. The new rifle is chambered for the Armscor TCM .22 cartridge exclusive to Armscor.

Press reports now make it clear what Vice President Joe Biden’s gun control package will look like. Biden wants to impose: