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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.

For the first time in its history, the Marine Corps will integrate female and male platoons during boot camp. Unlike the other services, the Marine Corps has not fully integrated women and men during recruit training. Instead, at Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, the first three battalions are all-male, while the fourth battalion is all-female. "On January 5, 2019, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, will start their training cycle with one female platoon and five male platoons," the Marine Corps said in a statement Friday, first reported by ABC News. While the change is...

Two well-dressed thieves walked into a London Bond Street jewelry store last week and, after brandishing handguns at shop workers, made off with $65 million worth of gems in one of Britain's biggest jewelry heists, police said Tuesday.

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...

<p>FORMER Prez Bill Clinton, in a shameless bid for applause at a Jewish fund-raiser last week, said, "I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die [for Israel]."</p> <p>Hey - I have a better idea. How about heading to Afghanistan, picking up a rifle, and getting in the trenches to fight and die for the country you didn't pick a up rifle for during the Vietnam War? You know, the United States, the country that elected you twice? The country currently engaged in a war on terrorism - while searching for the very terrorist bum you seemed to look for only whenever the Monica Lewinsky scandal heated up?</p>