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Firearms makers big and small have reported increased sales, and last month Springfield, Mass.-based Smith & Wesson reported that its sales more than doubled in its last fiscal year to $1.1 billion. The company’s sales certainly remained strong into July, when the company claimed the top spots on Guns.com top firearms sales charts for the month with its M&P 15 Sport II Optics Ready, an AR-style modern sporting rifle that the company noted was engineered for a wide variety of recreational, sport shooting and even professional applications.

Police: Naked Man Fires Gun at Traffic Thu Dec 1, 6:32 AM ET GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - A man wearing only socks was arrested along a busy street after witnesses said he fired a gun at afternoon traffic. Temperatures were in the 40s when the incident occurred Tuesday. Police said no witnesses were injured. Glenn Higgs, 44, of Germantown, was charged with reckless endangerment, indecent exposure, firing a weapon in the city limits and public intoxication, authorities said. "I couldn't believe it," said Eddie Cox, who was driving home from the bank when he saw the naked gunman in this Memphis...

Peru gives green light for gays in military to have sex Thu Nov 11, 2:02 PM ET LIMA (AFP) - Peru's constitutional court has granted gays in the military the freedom to have sex, declaring that a rule which had deemed such relations illegal was unconstitutional. The army's rule had stipulated that military personnel could not engage in sexual relations with persons of the same sex either within or outside their barracks. But constitutional court official Samuel Abad dubbed that rule "completely discriminatory." Gays in the armed forces had been subject to expulsion or prison sentences if they engaged in...