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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.

Nine years after losing his leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson has reinvented his Army career. Going from an Infantry squad leader to a wounded warrior, he is now a Paralympic shooter.

Using an out-of-the-box Steyr HS.50 long-range precision rifle, Walter Wilkinson, 56, of Edgewood, NM, bested a field of 31competitors to take the Hunter Class Score World Championship title at the Fifty Caliber Shooters’ Association World Championships at the NRA Whittington Center near Raton, NM, held July 1st and 2nd.

Brian 'Gunny' Zins of Poland, Ohio, won his 11th National Pistol title this weekend during the NRA's National Rifle & Pistol Championships in Camp Perry, Ohio. Shooting an aggregate score of 2649-142x, Zins finished three points ahead of his nearest competitor.

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.

Sinclair International will sponsor the upcoming NRA National High-Power Rifle Championships taking place August 6-10, 2012, at Camp Perry, Ohio.

Streamlight will sponsor the only all-female shooting team at the 10th Annual Shooting Industry Masters competition July 20-21 at the Rockcastle Shooting Center, Park Mammoth Resort, Park City, KY.

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

As she stood on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, a gold medal around her neck, 17-year-old Kim Rhode never dreamed that 16 years later, she’d be chasing history across the Atlantic Ocean in London.