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News From Italy & the World

The new walther Ten nine factory Walther inaugurates an all-inclusive service
for competitive shooters of Issf disciplines.
Walther inaugurates T9F (Ten nine factory), an
innovative performance center dedicated to the Olympic
disciplines of shooting, both with airguns and with
fireguns. It will be possible to equip competitive shooters
not only with the state of the art of Walther guns, but
also with ammunition or pellets and all the essential
accessories for shooting, thanks to the partnership
between Walther and other leading brands such as Rws,
Sauer and Centra.
In addition to the technical tools for shooting, the user
will be able to benefit from the advice and technical
experience of current Walther international competitive
shooters, as well as that of world and European
champions and former members of the Walther team, for
a fine-tuning of the settings of weapons and to know all
the secrets for victory.

Zev Oz9 for the National nuclear security administration

The National nuclear security administration, which manages
The new Zev Oz9 is the the security of US nuclear arsenals, announced that will equip
new side weapon of the the staff of the Office of secure transportation, the agents
NNSA officers. responsible for the surveillance of convoys that carry nuclear
and hydrogen bombs, with Zev guns Oz9 caliber 9×19 mm. The
gun, as it is known, derives from the Glock platform (and shares
the compatibility of most of the components with the Austrian
handgun), but boasting a very high level custom construction.
The NNSA has released a note in which it highlighted the need to
replace the side weapon supplied to the personnel with a 9 mm,
which was not only concealable but also capable of providing “day
and night short range defensive capabilities, when the primary
weapon is not in use”.
The agency also stated that the Oz9 was chosen in a comparison
between six different weapons in 9×19 mm and that it obtained
the highest score in terms of weight, resistance to damage,
ability to use in unfavorable light conditions, ease of collimation,
ergonomics, recoil management, reduced malfunctions and
general impression. The tests took place at the end January.

Ammo lead ban: echa report based on fake?

Anpam has spread an article published on the Euractiv portal, written by the European shooting sports forum (informal platform
that carries on the stakeholders at Eu level), about the “opinion making” process that the European chemicals agency (Echa)
used to prepare the draft for the near-total ban of lead ammunition on hunting and shooting spors in Europe. A new scientific study
demonstrates that Echa’s conclusions about European terrestrial bird declines from lead ammunition ingestion are based on uncertain
or generic assumptions. This study concludes lower, more realistic estimates of bird declines, based on a more reliable methodology.
Across the Eu, Echa estimates that hunting disperses approximately 14,000 tonnes of lead gunshot and bullets into the terrestrial
environment each year, leading to the mortality of birds that ingest it. Researchers have studied the impact of lead ingestion
among birds in the field and laboratory, but much is still unknown about the magnitude of losses
for terrestrial bird populations. Due to unavailable information across European countries, Echa
was only able to conclude with the highly uncertain estimate of a 1% decrease in terrestrial
game birds from lead shot ingestion.
According to this new study, data pooling across European countries for gallinaceous birds
resulted in the final percentages being 0,2% for direct and 1,4% for indirect deaths due to lead
ingestion, with a midpoint estimate of 0,8%. The first statistic for direct cause of death (0,2%) is
5 times lower than the Echas’s arbitrarily selected 1% estimate.

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