November 22, 2011
I just returned from having an inside look at a fascinating subculture within our law enforcement community. I attended Sniperfest 2011, an invitation-only two-day training event near Phoenix, Ariz., for SWAT snipers.
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November 10, 2011
Don’t look now, but a brand-new 90-year-old gun company is reinventing itself. O.F. Mossberg & Sons has become a dynamo of innovation, far removed from the staid, stodgy pump-shotgun maker that you might have previously thought of the Connecticut-based manufacturer. Today’s Mossberg is not your great-grandfather’s Mossberg.
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November 06, 2011
It’s about that time. Yes, it’s almost the first Saturday in November when the white-tailed deer season opens in Texas and, as a visit to McBride’s Gun Shop in Austin just validated, it’s gun-buying time. You see, the firearms business can be quite seasonal, like the ski business or the boat business. The only difference is that the pivotal season for the firearms business is not weather-related—it’s mostly geared around hunting.
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October 27, 2011
Yikes, I just got a fright! Try it yourself and see if Birchwood Casey's newest zombie target sensation website doesn't make your heart jump.
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October 25, 2011
Coming to you live from Latin Quarter of Paris, the Insider is here to check out the Milipol convention, a gathering of companies large and small who specialize in all things related to security. While FN Herstal is here with sniper rifles and Trijicon is displaying its new ACOG sight, firearms are a tiny fraction of the products shown to this semi-annual display of electronic wizardry.
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October 17, 2011
The U.S. Special Operations Command awarded a $23.3 million contract on Sept. 27 for suppressors, blank firing adapters and muzzle brakes to the Insider’s alma mater, SureFire. The contract is for an indefinite period.
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October 06, 2011
The Insider first broke the news of a 2009 sting operation by the FBI against nearly two dozen gun dealers that culminated in embarrassing arrests at the SHOT Show in 2010 in Las Vegas.
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October 05, 2011
This is a story about guns and motorcycles, but it has nothing to do with the Hell’s Angels’. It’s a story about a rifle that begins in the last century in Aldo’s Harley-Davidson shop in Massachusetts and, now, ends another chapter at PARA USA’s factory in North Carolina.
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October 03, 2011
In a surprise move, Smith & Wesson Holding Corp bought out the remaining contract of Michael F. Golden as president and CEO and appointed him to a seat on the company’s board of directors. Smith & Wesson's stock (symbol SWHC on the NASDAQ) has dropped 27 percent so far this year.
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September 26, 2011
Magpul Industries, a manufacturer of tactical accessories and developer of the Masada rifle now manufactured as the ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) Bushmaster Firearms, has sold a 51 percent controlling interest to private equity group for an undisclosed sum along with an additional $14.8 million in secondary financing to another investment house, Triangle Capital.
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