Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Steyr Arms Soft Pistol Case Digi Camo

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Boker Swiss Eye Shooting Glasses

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Do-it-yourself border patrol: one man’s vigil with a gun and spotlight.

Cochise County resident Lynn Kartchner, who wears a sidearm, tests a modified military searchlight that he uses to look for illegal activity at night in Arizona. Image: Lourdes Medrano
If night and the high mountains that enclose the San Bernardino Valley are the greatest allies of drug smugglers trying to cross the US-Mexican border, then Lynn [...]

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Military »

England enters Army camo competition with new, modified patterns.

The exact process through which the UCP pattern was developed and chosen remains something of a mystery, but what is clear is that the Army re-used the same pattern geometry as MARPAT and CADPAT (and now the Navy’s new NWU as well). What’s also clear is that with the elimination of black, or even just [...]

Related Topics: ATACS, camouflage, England, multicam, Tacticam

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

U.S. threatens prosecution on WikiLeaks release.

Striking back, the Obama administration branded the WikiLeaks release of more than a quarter-million sensitive files an attack on the United States Monday and raised the prospect of criminal prosecutions in connection with the exposure. The Pentagon detailed new security safeguards, including restraints on small computer flash drives, to make it harder for any one [...]

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

U.S. came close to al Qaeda’s number two in 2003.

The United States has come close to taking out al Qaeda’s second-in-command on more occasions than have previously been acknowledged, according to current and former U.S. officials.
In February 2003, Ayman al-Zawahiri apparently met in Peshawar, Pakistan, with another senior al Qaeda leader whom the CIA was pursuing at the time. But according to the officials, [...]

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Industry »

L-3 EOTech awarded $25 million contract for USSOCOM optical sighting system.

L-3 Communications announced today that the EOTech division has been awarded a $25 million firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ), non-competitive follow-on contract to provide its miniature day/night optical sighting systems in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Weapons Accessories Program. Production of the units will be performed at the EOTech facility in Ann Arbor, [...]

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Law Enforcement »

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes more than 6k rounds of ammunition.

A Brownsville man remained in federal custody without bond Monday after authorities arrested him over the weekend while trying to smuggle more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition, court records show.
Rene Huerta Jr., 48, was arrested Wednesday by CBP officers at the B&M International Bridge and charged with arms-ammunition smuggling, court records show. On Thursday, Huerta [...]

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

GunVault AR MagVault

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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

S.C. gun buyers load up during tax-free holiday.

More guns are sold in South Carolina in the weekend after Thanksgiving than at any other time of the year, according to Anderson retailers.
That is because, they said, of the state’s Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday, which allows stores to waive the 6 percent state sales tax on many firearms.
The holiday, which marked its third [...]

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