Industry Notes

The History Channel compares the M14 and M16 rifles.

Colt Defense LLC will bring to market the LE6920MP, a rifle standard equipped with many of Magpul’s most popular firearm accessories. This rifle is the first product Colt Defense and Magpul have developed together.

While some people are struggling to explain a gun buying surge reported on 'Black Friday,' the day after Thanksgiving, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggests there are several plausible explanations, all reflecting the times in which we live.

Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL) has drafted a bill that would block U.S. funding to the United Nations if it seeks to implement gun control measures affecting U.S. citizens. Despite victories by gun owners in elections and legislative battles throughout the country in recent years, on the international front gun control is moving quickly. Most significantly, in 2012 the UN plans to release a final draft of the Arms Trade Treaty—a treaty that will have severe consequences for American gun owners.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is halfway through the 'Million Gun Challenge to Benefit the NRA' campaign. Ruger recently presented the NRA with a check for $276,500, representing a $1 donation for every gun sold in the second quarter of the challenge.

Pack mules carrying hunters up the Las Vegas strip. Wall tents, campfires and meat poles in the palms beneath the Stratosphere. Elk wallowing in the fountains of Bellagio...OK, maybe not. But for three days in February, Las Vegas will indeed earn a new nickname as the Elk Hunting Capital of the World, as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation brings its annual Elk Camp convention and expo to the Las Vegas Convention Center and Riviera Hotel.

Colt’s has introduced a new version of the classic Colt Mustang chambered in 380 ACP.

Leupold & Stevens, Inc. was named 2011 Optics Manufacturer of the Year by the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) at its annual expo and meeting earlier this month.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE – RGR) announced several senior-level appointments to the sales staff, effective immediately.

A Federal Firearms Licensee named John Rumble, 56, of Ogdensburg, New York, has been sentenced to 121 months imprisonment for several federal firearms related offenses.

(GunReports.com) --- Smith & Wesson has been awarded firearm contracts in Texas from the Austin Police Department and from the San Antonio Police Officers Association.

The Albuquerque (NM) Police Department has ordered 100 more Remington Model 870 Police Magnum shotguns.