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By a vote of 23 to 17, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress.

A House panel voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt for failing to cooperate with a congressional inquiry into Operation “Fast and Furious,” hours after President Obama asserted executive privilege over related documents, the Washington Post reports.

Kelly McMillan, managing general partner of McMillan Group International, which formerly did business with Bank of America until BofA company executives told him they preferred not to work with gun companies, extends his thanks to everyone who supported McMillan and 2nd Amendment rights. McMillan’s company is now banking with National Bank of Arizona.

Criminals will have trouble finding any appeal in [an offer to turn in their guns]. In the first place, their weapons may have cost far more than $100, as handguns and long guns of good quality usually do.

A recent post on CheaperThanDirt.com's 'Shooter's Log' blog has generated hundreds of customer comments in response to a simple question: 'Are You Buying Guns? Tell Us Why.'

There has been some good news related to guns lately, reports NRA-ILA. Pro-Second Amendment Gov. Scott Walker's 7-point victory in the recent recall elections in Wisconsin--a great victory for gun owners in its own right--calls into question Mr. Obama's ability to win that state, which he carried by 13 percentage points in 2008.

CTD Shooting Team member Lena Miculek details how to execute weak-hand shotgun reloads in multi-gun competitions using a JM-series Pro Mossberg autoloading shotgun:

At a recent Babes with Bullets Clinic, Kay Miculek discusses the merits of the Smith & Wesson M&P22 rimfire pistol with Deb Ferns, BwB’s camp director.

Adam Cohen writes on Time.com that “We may all be getting a new Facebook friend soon: the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wants to shift its wiretapping from old-school telephone lines to person-to-person platforms like email and instant messaging and even social media like Facebook. To help it make the switch, the FBI is asking Congress to require tech companies to rewrite their software so it has a ‘back door’ that the FBI can use to listen in.”

In association with CheaperThanDirt.com, the Gun Tests/GunReports.com team shoots a quartet of high-cap shotguns, with surprising results. The head-to-head findings compare a Saiga 12-gauge autoloader, the Kel-Tec KSG pumpgun, a Red Jacket Saiga Conversion, and the AR-15–style Akdal Arms MKA1919 autoloader.

Roger Eckstine of Gun Tests/GunReports.com details the important functional aspects of the 24-7 Series Weathershield Windbreaker, $100.

Austin Miller from GunReports.com takes a minute to talk with Josh Waldron, CEO of Silencerco at the first-ever Silencers Are Legal Shoot at Elm Fork Shooting Range in Dallas, April 28.