Industry Notes

Ruger is offering free ground shipping when you order any three magazines through Nov 30. See the details in the adjacent ad.

ArmaLite’s new AR-10 Law Enforcement Carbine takes the durability and performance of the company’s LE carbines chambered in .223/5.56X45mm NATO and mixes in the stopping power of the .308 cartridge.

Burris is pleased to announce that the much anticipated Eliminator II and Eliminator III LaserScopes are now being shipped to dealers across the country. The new 3.5x-10x-50 Eliminator LaserScope, which was introduced in August, starting shipping in October.

AcuSport Corporation, a leading distributor of shooting and hunting products, has added FireClean advanced gun oil to its cleaning products lines. FireClean is non-toxic and odorless, and is designed to melt carbon while lubricating and conditioning the gun in one step.

Last week, an appeals court upheld a federal law that prohibits people under the age of 21 from purchasing handguns from dealers, rejecting the first challenge to the age rule since the Supreme Court recognized an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.

SIG Sauer, a U.S.-based leading manufacturer of law enforcement and military firearms, is pleased to announce that the Connecticut State Police has selected the SIG SAUER P220 as the agency’s next service firearm.

Special Agent in Charge David L. McCain of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Detroit Field Division, and Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley III of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Detroit Division announced today that each agency is contributing $50,000 to the reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual (s) responsible for the I-96 corridor shootings.

The Delaware State Police Special Operations Response Team (SORT) has chosen SIG Sauer’s SIG516 as its new duty long arm.

Honeywell Safety Products’s new Howard Leight Impact Sport MIL sound amplification earmuff provides passive hearing protection from firearms while allowing the shooter to hear range commands.

The 9th Edition of Hornady’s Handbook of Cartridge Reloading becomes available December 1, offering reloaders more than 900 pages worth of the latest reloading data representing 233 different cartridges, 146 powders, and 304 bullets.

During an auction in Worcester, MA on Thursday, September 27, the National Law Enforcement Museum won a rare and sought-after collection of photos, notes, telegrams, and other documents related to prohibition-era government agent Eliot Ness, from the estate of Winifred (Winnie) Higgins, Ness's secretary.

Carl Walther GmbH has found that manual safeties on some PK380 pistols don’t work properly. Certain PK380 pistols may permit a round to be discharged if the trigger is pulled, despite the manual safety being engaged.