Grauer Systems launched new AR15 rail system

Press release:

IGRS™ provides the ultimate Weapon Enhancement Platform for AR/M4/M16’s Las Vegas (January 19, 2010) – At this year’s annual SHOT Show, Grauer Systems is launching IGRS™, an innovative Integrated Grip Rail System designed to enhance the overall performance and effectiveness of existing AR’s. IGRS provides maximum flexibility for improving weapon control for a wide range of shooting situations by enhancing the ergonomics of commonly used weapon holds without any compromise.

For more info check out Grauer Systems for more info!

FNH USA adds to their shooting team

From FNH’s press release:

(McLean, Va.) January 13, 2010. The FNH Shooting Team roster has been bumped up to a total of seven members, including Tommy Thacker and Ken Pfau of FNH USA; sponsored shooters, Tasha Hanish, Mark Hanish; and new members, Dianna Liedorff, Dave Neth, and Larry Houck.

Liedorff is a 17-year veteran with the Tulsa Police Department and was proud to win the Tactical Optics (Lady) division at the 2009 Ft. Benning Three-Gun Challenge. She hopes to add three more major matches to her schedule in 2010. “I have always looked at competitive shooting as “practice” for skills I may need at work,” Liedorff said.

FNH has always fielded an incredibly good 3-gun team, and it looks like with some of these new additions they may be branching out into the “pistol only” games. Good luck to all of their new members!

Attention Indiana residents: Handgun Database bills in committee!

The bill to close the Indiana Handgun Database so that your private information will be safe is before the House Natural Resources Committee today.  The members of the House Committee are under heavy fire from the Indiana state’s journalist and media association, who want them to put a amendment in the bill that would allow papers to still have access to the database.

Doing this would gut the bill, and eviscerate it’s original purpose which is to protect law abiding gun owners from journalistic activism and printing the database.  Please contact the following reps and urge them to suppor the bill in its current form, and to not cave in to the demands of the media elite:

Chairman, bob bischoff; [email protected]
Vice-chair, dave cheatham; [email protected]
Bill sponsor, peggy welch; [email protected]
Members:
nancy dembowski [email protected]
Dale grubb; [email protected]
Nancy michael; [email protected]
Phil pflum; [email protected]
Paul robertson; [email protected]
Bob cherry; [email protected]
Dick dodge; [email protected]
Tim brown; [email protected]
Sean eberhart; [email protected]
Dan leonard; [email protected]

There are 27 other states that have legislation like this, and none of the make an exception for the media.  Why?  Because the media is the problem here.

The Muncie Star thinks you're a sex offender

There is absolutely zero hyperbole in the title of this post.  From an editorial in today’s Muncie paper about the bills that would close access to the handgun permit database comes the following excerpt, word for word:

A bill authored by Rep. Peggy Welch, a Democrat from the Brown County area, removes from public inspection information about people carrying gun permits.

This is not a good idea. This bill needs to be severely amended or allowed to die in committee.

Here’s why:

Say, for example, you want to find out whether there are any convicted child molesters living in your neighborhood. You have young children, and like any good parent, you look up the information on available Web sites. Your research uncovers several living in your neighborhood. If you want to know whether they have permits to carry a gun, you can get that information. This bill, however, would prohibit that information from being made known.

I wish I was making this up, I really do. However, the Muncie paper apparently thinks that you and I as handgun carry permit holders are just as dangerous as sex offenders. However, it gets better, as the Muncie paper shows that they think the Indiana State Police is a racist organization:

It also will be nearly impossible to find out whether police or other members are denying permits to legitimate applicants, maybe because of race or names that might denote a Muslim background, for example.

It actually says that they think that ISP is denying permits to legitimate applications because of their race and religion.  That’s pretty low, even for a paper.

You can contact the editors of the Muncie paper here. Their phone number is 1-800-783-2472. Please contact them and be courteous and polite while expressing you distaste for the comparison of law abiding gun owners to sex offenders.

SHOT SHOW callout

To all my readers: this year marks the first year in the last three that I won’t be able to attend SHOT SHOW, which is definitely a bummer.  However, we want to hear from you!  On Tuesday night’s Gun Nuts Radio, we’re going to be taking callers from the 2010 SHOT SHOW, and I want you to be a part of it.  If you’re attending the 2010 SHOT SHOW and would like to appear on Gun Nuts Radio next Tuesday, send an email to [email protected] so we can get the ball rolling.  I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

Gun Nuts Last Night: Rep. Mike Murphy and Marko

What a show we had last night, especially for those of you that enjoy the political stuff.  We were pleased to welcome State Representative Mike Murphy of Indianapolis to the show for the first half of the show.  We had a great discussion on the bills that are in the Indiana General Assembly this year that will have a positive impact on gun owners in the state.  The primary focus was on Rep. Murphy’s bill, which is House Bill 1219.  This bill would limit access to the handgun permit database to law enforcement only, preventing what occured with the Bloomington paper and the Indy Star from happening again.  Also, Representative Murphy talked a bit about his bid for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District…which happens to be my district, so you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be voting for him.  If you’d like to listen to all of last night’s excellent show, click here.  Here is the .mp3 copy.

After Rep. Murphy, we welcomed Marko, the Munchkin Wrangler himself to the show as our featured blogger of the week.  Marko was great, as he usually is, talking about his upcoming novel, raising children in a house with guns, as well as one of his best posts ever, “Why the Gun is Civilization“.

To hear Marko’s great appearance, just click here for last night’s Gun Nuts Radio.  The show is also available, as always, on Gun Nuts Host - Gun Nuts Radio: The Next Generation of Shooting | Blog Talk Radio Feed - Gun Nuts Radio: The Next Generation of Shooting | Blog Talk Radio Feed by clicking the button!

Thanks again to our great guests, and all the listeners that took advantage of our new TalkBack Email box at [email protected]. Next week’s show is going to be great, as we’ll be talking about the new products launched at SHOT SHOW! Be here at 9pm Eastern next Tuesday for your inside scoop on SHOT!

We are all the NRA

And we are not just into politics.

It seems that to quite a few people, the letters “N-R-A” have been synonymous with “political activity”, and for good reason.  The NRA is the foremost and most effective group that defends our right to keep and bear arms, no question about that.  But NRA is a lot more than just a political group, and I think that gets lost in the shuffle a lot of the time.

NRA is more than politics – NRA is a shooting organization.  An incomplete list of all the NRA shooting sports runs the gamut from NRA Action Pistol (aka Bianchi Cup), NRA Collegiate Pistol, High Power Rifle, Smallbore rifle, National Police Shooting Championships, and just last three they dipped their toes into the 3-gun world, sanctioning their first “outlaw” 3-gun match.

That’s not all, either.  Just look at all the programs that NRA offers, that are completely outside the scope of their political activities!  Firearms training, hunter education, gunsmithing classes, youth safety classes, Eddie Eagle, the list goes on and on and on.  I am the NRA, because I am so much more than a political activist – I’m a shooter, a competitor, and an activist.  Yes, we win in the courts, in the legislative houses across the states; we also win when new shooters come on board, whenever a round goes downrange at an Action Pistol Match.

I’m the NRA, but the NRA is more than just politics.

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