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Limited exhibits spaces remain open for Industry Day at the Range. Secure yours before a newly scheduled deadline.

Kim Rhode is more than a shooter; she’s the only American to medal in six consecutive Olympics. And Winchester is celebrating her accomplishment.

I’m convinced this is an area of great educational opportunity, as I see shooters at the range going through boxes of ammo while furiously spinning adjustment dials until they finally leave in frustration with a still un-zeroed optic.

Florida gun store mogul Kahled Akkawi is using aggressive business practices to force retailers out of competing shows. While some are learning to live with it, others worry the new policies are strangling their business and could be a model for other states.

Crimson Trace has developed a new remotely-activated light and laser combo for AR-style rifles.

The folks who work for Sig’s ammo division are finicky and persnickety — in a good way. They’re the type of people who stay up late at night devising ingenious new manufacturing techniques and machines to measure, double-check and triple-check their process.

Coming in at almost half the weight, an inch shorter and about a third of the cost of the Salvo 12, the new Utas Octave is a carbon fiber wrapped 12-gauge suppressor that can knock down a scattergun’s report to as little as 135 decibels.

Dead Air Silencers offers a new suppressor for pistols up to .45 caliber that’s modular with a reduced length.

For many customers, muzzleloaders can be a bit of a mystery — measuring powders, loading primers and tamping bullets, not to mention the cleaning that’s involved, can serve to veer off all the but the most hardcore shooters. But today’s technology has made it even easier to get into the sport, and a little explanation will go a long way toward cutting the intimidation factor.

Industry Day at the Range has extended the exhibitor registration deadline to October 16, 2015.