Industry Notes

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

Burris will offer a $50 Rebate on it popular Fullfield E1 Riflescope line with the Ballistic Plex E1 reticle. To take advantage of this rebate program, consumers need to purchase one of the Fullfield E1 scopes in 2x7x-35mm, 3x-9x-40mm, 3x-9x50mm, or 4.5-14x-42mm configurations by Dec. 31, 2012.

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.

Background checks for people wanting to purchase firearms in Colorado spiked more than 40 percent this past weekend, after a gunman opened fire in a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58 more.

BATFE's acting director distributed a videotaped message to employees this month warning there would be “consequences” for reporting wrongdoing outside their chain of command.

FNH USA's new FN P-12 pump shotgun marks FNH USA's re-entry into the pump shotgun market.

A New Hampshire company plans to auction Bonnie and Clyde memorabilia in September that includes a Colt .38-caliber revolver that Bonnie Parker taped to her inner thigh as well as the .45-caliber pistol that Barrow kept in his waistband.

Two iconic Hollywood firearms will go to auction July 30, auction house Profiles In History has announced.

The National Rifle Association awarded $15,000 in college scholarships to attendees of the 2012 Youth Education Summit (Y.E.S.), a seven-day expense paid educational experience in Washington, DC for rising high school juniors and seniors.

The Gun Club of America (GCA) recently presented a check for $13,049.50 to The Pathway Home.

UCLA Prof. Eugene Volokh, writing on the Volokh Conspiracy, recently posted a demographic study of which group was the fastest-growing cohort to become concealed carry licensees in Texas.

Monroe, NC-based I.O. Inc. is bringing the Beryl Polish assault rifle to the United States as a civilian model. Named the “Archer,” this I.O. Inc. rifle is manufactured in Poland’s Fabryka Broni 'Łucznik' – Radom plant, and prominently displays the trademark FB (Fabryka Broni) on the left side of the receiver.