Industry Notes

NEWPORT, NH -- Sturm, Ruger & Company's new Ruger Single Action Shooting Society Vaquero is a high-gloss stainless steel revolver with a lower/wider Montado-style hammer found on the Ruger Montado.

MINWORTH, England -- Australian shooter Warren Potent recently won his third Gold medal at the fourth stage of the ISSF World Cup held in Milan using his new selected matched batch of Tenex.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: SWHC), parent company of Smith & Wesson Corp., today announced financial results for the fiscal year and the fourth fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2009.

MINNEAPOLIS --Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has received an additional $42 million in small-caliber ammunition orders from the U.S. Army Sustainment Command in Rock Island, Ill.

RALEIGH, NC -- The Raleigh, North Carolina Police Department will equip its officers with Smith & Wesson Military & Police (M&P) Series pistols and with M&P Series tactical rifles. The M&P45 pistol and M&P15 tactical rifle will be issued respectively as the primary duty firearm and standard issue patrol rifle.

BERRYVILLE, Ark. -- Wilson Combat has added the Spec Ops 9 to its family of custom pistols. The new 29.8-oz polymer 1911 sports a 4.5” barrel with 16+1 rounds of 9mm on board.

Windham, ME – Bushmaster Firearms will supply the Alabama Department of Public Safety with 300 M4 Type Patrolman’s Carbine.

MONTEZUMA, Iowa -- Brownells has just completed the first successful live-fire test of its military contract of building M4/M16 magazine with the latest follower design.

Beginning in June, Winchester Ammunition will offer a commemorative USA Shooting Shotgun Team, AA Target 100 Round Value Pack. The Value Pack will consist of four 25-round boxes of 12 gauge AA in Light Target, Super-Handicap and Sporting Clays loads.

EXETER, NH – SIG Sauer will resume shipping all standard commercial pistols with two magazines. SIG Sauer suppliers increased production to meet the heightened consumer demand, thus allowing SIG Sauer to resume shipping two magazines with every commercial handgun.

Shooters using Eley ammunition won five of five gold medals in 50-meter events at the third stage of the ISSF World Cup Series held at the Olympic Shooting Range in Munich, Germany from May 12-20, 2009.

Below are examples of operations performed on firearms and guidance as to whether or not such operations would be considered manufacturing under the Gun Control Act (GCA).