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With apologies to Chet Atkins, a guitar string makes a fine substitute when you need a replacement spring in a hurry.

During a recent address by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan at Marquette University, the jurist gave students some insight into how she and her colleagues decide what they will rule on a given case. Later in the address, Kagan also shared that she plans to go hunting with her colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, who has a large animal head in his chambers named Leroy.

Outspoken gun activist and rock star Ted Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre spoke at the NRA Annual Meetings April 14, 2012. If you weren’t able to attend, a link to a transcript of his comments appears below, courtesy of the NRA. Or click the player window to watch the speech. 'All over this nation, people feel it in their hearts — that something has gone terribly wrong in our country. In almost every way you look at it, almost every aspect of American freedom is in some state of decline.

Larry Keane, general counsel of the NSSF, weighed in recently on the biased reporting about Remington firearms by NBC’s Rock Center program.

The editors of National Review Online recently did a clean, clear job of reacting to demands that self-defense laws enacted in many states to protect victims don't get repealed because of the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. From the article:

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent accused President Obama of running a “vile, evil, America-hating administration” during a weekend appearance at the National Rifle Association convention. He was interviewed at the NRA Annual Meetings by NRA radio host Cam Edwards.

Smith & Wesson’s new M&P Shield is a slim, concealable, lightweight, striker-fired polymer pistol. Available in 9mm and .40 S&W, the new M&P Shield has an easily concealed 1-inch profile and an optimized 18-degree grip angle.

Crimson Trace's Iain Harrison previews the company’s upcoming green pistol laser sights from NRA Annual Meetings in St Louis.

Katie Pavlich, news editor at Townhall.com, has written a new book called Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up.

The Econo-Can is a patent-pending legal and registered silencer by American Specialty Ammo. It actually is an adapter that uses a removable expansion chamber — aka a car oil filter — to suppress the firearm. The video below shows that this device is as quiet as any 22 LR silencer we have tested. But it’s not a toy or novelty. It’s a registered silencer and must be treated as such. The adapter is threaded 1/2-28. This is a NFA item and all NFA rules and regulations apply. Price: $55.

Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, recently clarified just where guns in Mexico come from -- and it's not primarily the U.S. He wrote, 'During his recent visit to the White House, Mexico President Felipe Calderon renewed his call for a U.S. assault weapons ban as a solution to the drug cartel-caused violence that plagues his country. He also claimed, according to columnist Bill Press, that violence levels are directly related to the number of guns in circulation. Both of these assertions are demonstrably false.'