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Endangered Species List of Handguns

Endangered Species List of Handguns-August

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but here’s the list of guns expiring in August. For more DOJ Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale click the link below.

Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale

Smith & Wesson	340SC SKU 163060 / Alloy, Titanium, Stainless Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.357 Magnum	8/2/2014
Smith & Wesson	SW9GVE SKU 120038 / Polymer, Stainless Steel	Pistol	4″	9mm	8/3/2014
Smith & Wesson	SW40GVE (2-Tone/Olive Frame) SKU 120037 / Polymer, Stainless Steel	Pistol	4″	.40 S&W	8/3/2014
Smith & Wesson	357NG (Matte Black) SKU 163428 / Stainless Steel; Alloy	Revolver	2.5″	.41 Mag	8/5/2014
Kahr Arms	PM9094A / Stainless Steel, Polymer	Pistol	3″	9mm	8/5/2014
Kahr Arms	PM9094NA / Stainless Steel, Polymer	Pistol	3″	9mm	8/5/2014
Beretta	96 Vertec Inox / Stainless Steel, Alloy	Pistol	4.7	.40 S&W	8/6/2014
Smith & Wesson	625-8 SKU 160935 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	4″	.45 ACP	8/8/2014
Smith & Wesson	325PD SKU 163415 / Alloy, Titanium and Stainless Steel	Revolver	2.75″	.45 ACP	8/10/2014
Smith & Wesson	SW1911 SC SKU 108283 / Alloy, Steel, Stainless Steel	Pistol	4.25″	.45 ACP	8/10/2014
Taurus	PT92 (w/Rubber Grips & Rail) / Blue Steel	Pistol	5″	9mm	8/10/2014
Sturm, Ruger & Co.	KP345PR / Stainless Steel and Polymer	Pistol	4.2″	.45 Auto	8/10/2014
Sturm, Ruger & Co.	MKIII512 / Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/10/2014
Taurus	85T Non-Ported / Titanium	Revolver	2″	.38 Spl	8/11/2014
Sturm, Ruger & Co.	KSRH-2454 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	2.5″	.454 Casull	8/11/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 Texas Hold’em SKU 161492 / Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.38 Spl	8/11/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1640SL / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5″	.40 S&W	8/11/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1640SN / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5″	.40 S&W	8/11/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1640SR / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5″	.40 S&W	8/11/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1445SL / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/12/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1445SN / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/12/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	SX1445SR / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/12/2014
Kahr Arms	M4043A / Stainless Steel	Pistol	3″	.40 S&W	8/14/2014
Kahr Arms	M4043NA / Stainless Steel	Pistol	3″	.40 S&W	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	360SC SKU 163065 / Alloy, Titanium, Stainless Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.357 Magnum	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	22S-1 SKU 107320 / Stainless Steel	Pistol	7″	.22 LR	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	340PD SKU 163061 / Alloy, Titanium, Stainless Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.357 Magnum	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	22A-1 SKU 107410 / Alloy, Stainless Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	360SC SKU 163067 / Alloy, Titanium, Stainless Steel	Revolver	3.12″	.357 Magnum	8/14/2014
Smith & Wesson	M&P 9 (Mag Safety) SKU 109201 / Stainless Steel, Polymer	Pistol	4.25″	9mm	8/16/2014
Smith & Wesson	PC1911 Stainless (Matte/Polished Stnls) SKU170261 / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 (Nickel) SKU 150012 / Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.38 Spl	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	351 PD SKU 160228 / Alloy, Stainless Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.22 Magnum	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	Bodyguard 38 (Matte Black) SKU103038 / Stainless Steel; Alloy	Revolver	1.9″	.38 Spl	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	627-5 (Matte Silver) SKU 170133 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	2.625″	.357 Magnum	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	625-8 (Satin Stnls) SKU 170161 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	4″	.45 ACP	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	58-1 (Nickel) SKU 150501 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.41 Magnum	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	586-7 SKU 163568 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.357 Magnum	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	65-8 SKU 162604 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	4″	.357 Magnum	8/17/2014
Smith & Wesson	64-8 SKU 162506 / Stainless Steel	Revolver	4″	.38 Special	8/17/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	TX745S / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/17/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	TX745SL / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/17/2014
Para USA (Para Ordnance)	TX745SN / Stainless Steel and Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/17/2014
Sig Sauer, Inc. (Sauer, J.P. & Sons, Sig	Mosquito (Blued) / Steel, Polymer	Pistol	4″	.22 LR	8/18/2014
Accu-Tek	AT-380 II / 17-4 Stainless Steel	Pistol	2.8″	.380 ACP	8/18/2014
Colt	O1991AR (VFWDefenders of Freedom)America Remembers / Blue Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/20/2014
Colt	O1991AR (Devil Dog) America Remembers / Blue Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/20/2014
Colt	O1991AR (American Eagle) America Remembers / Blue Steel	Pistol	5″	.45 ACP	8/20/2014
Sturm, Ruger & Co.	KMKIII512 / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/20/2014
Taurus	PT38S (Blue) / Steel/Alloy	Pistol	4.25″	.38 Super	8/23/2014
Springfield Armory	XD9704 / Polymer, Steel	Pistol	4″	9mm	8/26/2014
Smith & Wesson	22A-1 (Std Barrel Wood Grip) SKU 107432 / Alloy, Stainless Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/27/2014
Smith & Wesson	22A-1 (Bull Barrel, Hi-Viz, Black) SKU 107426 / Alloy, Stainless Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/27/2014
Kimber	Rimfire Target Silver / Lightweight Alloy	Pistol	5″	.22 LR	8/27/2014
Smith & Wesson	22S-1 (Std Barrel) SKU 107300 / Stainless Steel	Pistol	5.5″	.22 LR	8/28/2014
Smith & Wesson	22A-1 (Std Barrel) SKU 107430 / Alloy, Stainless Steel	Pistol	7″	.22 LR	8/28/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 Classic (Blue) SKU 150184 / Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.38 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 Classic (Color Case) SKU 150185 / Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.38 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 Classic (Nickel) SKU 150197 / Steel	Revolver	1.87″	.38 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	22-4 Classic (Blue) SKU 150199 / Steel	Revolver	5.5″	.45 ACP	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	21-4 Classic (Color Case) SKU 150182 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.44 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	21-4 Classic (Nickel) SKU 150183 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.44 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	22-4 Classic (Blue) SKU 150195 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.45 ACP	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	22-4 Classic (Nickel) SKU 150186 / Steel	Revolver	4″	.45 ACP	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	36-10 Classic (Blue) SKU 150194 / Steel	Revolver	3″	.38 Spl	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	22-4 Classic (Color Case) SKU 150187 / Steel	Revolver	4	.45 ACP	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	29-10 Classic (Blue, Engraved) SKU 150201 / Steel	Revolver	6.5″	.44 Mag	8/29/2014
Smith & Wesson	29-10 Classic (Nickel, Engraved) SKU 150202 / Steel	Revolver	6.5″	.44 Mag	8/29/2014
Fabrique Nationale	FN Five-seveN (Flat Dark Earth) / Steel; Polymer	Pistol	4.75″	5.7x28mm	8/29/2014

Gun Control Battle Has Moved Beyond Politicians

Gun Control Battle Has Moved Beyond Politicians
Across the country, customers with handguns in their holsters and assault rifles on their backs have sparked a fierce debate and revealed the battle over the Second Amendment isn’t just for politicians in Washington anymore. The gun control issue has shifted in the last year from the halls of Congress to the aisles of retail stores and restaurants.

Last week, after a month of demonstrations, Target became the latest business to request shoppers leave their guns at home in an effort to maintain a “family-friendly shopping and work experience.”

The retail giant Target joined other companies like Starbucks, Chipotle, Wendy’s and Jack in the Box that have taken a stand against “open carry” gun advocates who want to underscore their right to bear arms by carrying guns in stores and other public places. While CEOs usually are busy worried about the bottom line, recently they have been forced into the middle of one of the country’s most contentious political debates.

Target Asks Customers To Leave Firearms At Home

Target is asking its customers to not bring firearms into its stores, even where it is allowed by law. In a statement on the retailer’s corporate blog, interim CEO John Mulligan said that Target wants a “safe and inviting”…

 “They do not want to get involved. We are dragging them kicking and screaming to be in the middle of it,” says Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. “When state and local laws don’t protect customers adequately, businesses need to step up.”

In the year and a half since a gunman walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 first graders and six adults, gun control advocates have been dismayed by the intransigence on Capitol Hill. Though there has been some success in passing gun control measures in state legislatures across the country from Colorado to New York, Watts says she decided there had to be another way to take a stand. So she harnessed the purchasing power of parents.

“Congress refused to do the right thing, but it was not as if the issue is going to go away. When you are a mother and 20 first graders were slaughtered in the sanctity of their own classroom, you don’t just slink off with your diaper bag,” Watts says. “We are going to pull the different levers that will make a difference.”

Watts says some retailers have been so spooked by the public opinion fight over the Second Amendment that they have come to Moms Demand Action privately and asked what they can do to avoid being the target of one of the group’s campaigns.

Yet, Target’s position on firearms in their stores is merely a suggestion, not a policy they plan to enforce. Customers who enter the store with guns will not be asked to leave if they are following local laws.

“Our approach has always been to follow local laws, and of course, we will continue to do so. But starting today, we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target – even in communities where it is permitted by law,” Target CEO John Mulligan said in a statement.

That’s led some on the gun rights side to criticize Target for taking any action at all.

“What they are doing is straddling the fence. They are trying to make everyone happy,” says Jerry Henry, executive director of Georgia Carry, a guns right group. “If you make a decision that I cannot carry a firearm into your business, I just don’t go there.”

Still, gun control activists like Watts hailed Target’s announcement as a victory, because some open-carry activists, like Henry, have promised to take their business elsewhere. Other gun enthusiasts are urging their supporters to respect Target’s request.

“While this is not a ban on legally possessed firearms in its stores, we will continue to honor our months-long policy of not taking long arms into Target stores or any other business,” Open Carry Texas wrote on its website. “Engaging in the businesses of interfering with or making a scene at private corporations is something to which Open Carry Texas has never lowered itself, a practice we will maintain.” The group’s statement did not mention handguns, which under Texas law must be concealed in public.

Some blame open-carry groups for the current corporate dilemma.

“I am not really sure what they are trying to do,” says Allison Anderman, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a group that pushes for stricter gun laws. “People are forgetting that the rest of the country does not want to live in a society where we walk around with guns. Most of society recognizes the truth that guns do not make us safer.”

Even the National Rifle Association worried the tactics of some pro-gun groups were amiss. The NRA issued a warning to members that bringing assault rifles to shop or eat was “downright weird.”

“It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates,” the NRA said in an unsigned statement in May, after Chipotle asked customers not to bring guns into their restaurants.

But, facing backlash from members, the NRA quickly issued a “clarification” saying it “unequivocally” supported open carry.

“What this comes down to is a tactics discussion,” NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox said. “Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners.”

While the debate over open carry has resurfaced in recent months, it has long been the policy of some corporations not to allow guns in their stores at all. At Buffalo Wild Wings, Whole Foods, Peet’s Coffee & Tea and Costco Wholesale, to name a few, it is not merely a request; it is the rule. On its website, the membership-only club Costco states that it “does not believe that it is necessary for firearms to be brought into its warehouse stores.”

“If you believe that our policy restricting members from bringing firearms into our warehouse stores is either unfair or excessively burdensome, or you cannot agree to abide by this policy, or you are dissatisfied for any other reason, Costco will promptly refund your annual membership fee in full,” the statement says.

The pro-gun website Second Amendment Check has a 40-business long boycott list where they urge their members not to shop. That list includes Costco, Whole Foods, IKEA, Cinemark, AMC Theatres, Hooters, Toys R Us, The New York Times Company and others.

Some corporations have even taken advanced steps to alert their customers of their gun policies. U.S. Bankcorp, the parent company for U.S. Bank, sent a letter to a customer in 2013 alerting him that guns were not allowed on the property.

“Please refrain from bringing any weapon onto U.S. Bank premises in the future,” stated the letter, which was posted as a PDF on the pro-gun website AmmoLand.“Further action will be taken if a U.S. Bank employee observes or learns that you or any other customer is in possession of a weapon on U.S. Bank premises.”

Gun rights activists may see these corporate decisions as only a minor setback. Just last week, Republican Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have banned high-powered magazines in New Jersey, and a Georgia state law went into effect that allows the state’s licensed gun owners to enter some churches, bars, schools and even select government buildings with their firearms.

“And how many people have been killed so far?” Henry asks in a nod to opponents of the law who said it would cause a spike in violence. “This law changes very little.”

There are still a host of retailers who have not taken a stand against guns in stores. Wal-Mart, which sells guns in some of its outlets, allows customers to carry handguns in accordance with local laws. Some smaller mom-and-pop businesses have also made guns a regular part of the experience.

In Rifle, Colorado, at a little burger joint called Shooters Grill, your waitress may be packing heat and you may order the “Locked and Loaded Nachos,” if you wish.

“It is kind of a way of life here,” restaurant owner Lauren Boebert told CNN in an interview this week. “For us, open carry was not a big deal until just recently.”

By: Lauren Fox, U.S. News & World Report

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States Look to Gun Seizure Law after Mass Killings

States Look to Gun Seizure Law after Mass Killings
As state officials across the U.S. grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and near the University of California, Santa Barbara, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.

Connecticut’s law allows judges to order guns temporarily seized after police present evidence that a person is a danger to themselves or others. A court hearing must be held within 14 days to determine whether to return the guns or authorize the state to hold them for up to a year.

The 1999 law, the first of its kind in the U.S., was in response to the 1998 killings of four managers at the Connecticut Lottery headquarters by a disgruntled employee with a history of psychiatric problems.

Indiana is the only other state that has such a law, passed in 2005 after an Indianapolis police officer was shot to death by a mentally ill man. California and New Jersey lawmakers are now considering similar statutes, both proposed in the wake of the killings of six people — three stabbed to death and three fatally shot— and wounding of 13 others near the University of California, Santa Barbara, by a mentally ill man who had posted threatening videos on YouTube.

Michael Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice planning and policy, believes the state’s gun seizure law could have prevented the killings of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, if police had been made aware that gunman Adam Lanza had mental health problems and access to his mother’s legally owned guns.

“That’s the kind of situation where you see the red flags and the warning signs are there, you do something about it,” Lawlor said. “In many shootings around the country, after the fact it’s clear that the warning signs were there.”

Gun rights advocates oppose gun seizure laws, saying they allow police to take people’s firearms based only on allegations and before the gun owners can present their side of the story to a judge. They say they’re concerned the laws violate constitutional rights.

“The government taking things away from people is never a good thing,” said Rich Burgess, president of the gun rights group Connecticut Carry. “They come take your stuff and give you 14 days for a hearing. Would anybody else be OK if they just came and took your car and gave you 14 days for a hearing?”

Rachel Baird, a Connecticut lawyer who has represented many gun owners, said one of the biggest problems with the state’s law is that police are abusing it. She said she has had eight clients whose guns were seized by police who obtained the required warrants after taking possession of the guns.

“It’s stretched and abused, and since it’s firearms, the courts go along with it,” Baird said of the law.

But backers of such laws say they can prevent shootings by getting guns out of the hands of mentally disturbed people.

“You want to make sure that when people are in crisis … there is a way to prevent them to get access to firearms,” said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the nonprofit Education Fund to Stop Gun Violence in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama tried to tighten gun regulations after the Newtown massacre, but proposals to expand background checks for gun purchasers failed to get enough votes to pass in the Senate in the face of strong opposition from the influential National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. Some states such as Connecticut have tightened gun restrictions since Newtown, but others have expanded the right to openly carry firearms in public places.

Connecticut authorities report a large increase in the use of gun seizure warrants involving people deemed dangerous by police over the past several years. Officials aren’t exactly sure what caused the increase but believe it’s related to numerous highly publicized mass shootings in recent years.

Police statewide filed an estimated 183 executed gun seizure warrants with court clerks last year, more than twice the number filed in 2010, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch data. Last year’s total also was nearly nine times higher than the annual average in the first five years of the gun seizure law.

Connecticut police have seized more than 2,000 guns using the warrants, according to the most recent estimate by state officials, in 2009.

Police in South Windsor, about 12 miles northeast of Hartford, say the law was invaluable last year when they seized several guns from the home of a man accused of spray-painting graffiti referencing mass shootings in Newtown and Colorado on the outside of the town’s high school.

“With all that we see in the news day after day, particular after Newtown, I think departments are more aware of what authority they have … and they’re using the tool (gun seizure warrants) more frequently than in the past,” said South Windsor Police Chief Matthew Reed. “We always look at it from the other side. What if we don’t seize the guns?”

By: Associated Press

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