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Interesting year. Gun ownership in the US rose to an all-time high, while violent crime fell to a 35-year low. Despite this, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that Heller did not apply to the Massachusetts state legislature and that the gun locks ordered under Massachusetts law are different than those regulated in Heller. California, meanwhile, tried to institute a firearm microstamping law (which would have conveniently exempted law enforcement). It failed.

Kimber introduced their Ultra RCP II (a subcompact 1911 from the company's Custom Shop that features a sighting trough instead of conventional sights) and Chiappa turned the world of revolvers upside-down (sort of) when they started cranking out the Rhino.

Nicole Franks got off to a poor start, as her performance in the first half of the season was hampered by a back injury she suffered early in the year.

January

• January 25 — The Supreme Court granted the NRA's motion for divided argument in the case of McDonald v. Chicago.

March

• March 2 — SCOTUS begins hearing oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago.

April

• April 2 — The Canadian National Firearms Association produces the [[Norinco Type 97 and Reclassification of Firearms Act|Briefing Paper On Reclassification of Firearms and Related Issues], in response to notices sent to owners of registered Norinco Type 97 rifles and High Standard Model 10B shotguns, ordering them to surrender their firearm(s) and registration certificates.
• April 14 — The FN SCAR became the first new assault rifle procured by the U.S. Military through a full and open competition since the M16 trials were held in the mid-1960s.

May

• May 4 — A press release on FNH USA's official website announced the SCAR Acquisition Decision Memorandum was finalized on April 14, 2010. This was to be an approval for the entire weapons family of the Mk16 SCAR Light, Mk17 SCAR Heavy and the Enhanced Grenade Launcher Module.
• May 10 — Michael Ignatieff, the Leader of the Official Opposition and of the Liberal Party of Canada, announced that the final vote on Bill C-391, a private member's bill, would be whipped.
• May 13 — During Parliamentary hearings into the long-gun registry, the President of the Canadian Police Association, Charles Momy, admitted to the House of Commons Public Safety Committee that less than 1 per cent of his association’s membership responded to a survey supporting the long-gun registry.

June

• June 18 — MAIG mayor Eddie Perez was found guilty on 5 of 6 charges of larceny, extortion and assorted other corruptions, effectively putting an end to his huffings and puffings about clinging to office.
• June 25 — SOCOM announced that it was canceling the acquisition of the MK-16 citing limited funds and a lack of enough of a performance difference in another 5.56mm rifle to justify the purchase. Remaining funds would be expended for the MK-17 7.62x51 mm version and the MK-20 sniper variant.[
• June 28 — The US Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's decision in NRA v. Chicago and remanded it back to Seventh Circuit to resolve conflicts between certain Chicago gun restrictions and the Second Amendment.
• June 28 — USA: the High Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Second Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, subjecting Chicago's gun ordinances to the requirements of the Federal Second Amendment.
• False flag: During the Philippine National Police Gun Summit, a previously unknown organization called "Total Pro-Gun Confederation" was selected to speak on behalf of the Philippine Firearms community.

July

• July 14 — BATFE Field Operations Assistant Director Mark Chait sends an email to Bill Newell, the agency’s Special Agent in Charge in Phoenix, from which Fast and Furious was based. In the email, Chaits asked Newell to “see if these guns were all purchased from the same [licensed gun dealer] and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales.”

August

• August 19 — Edmonton Det. Randy Kuntz's survey of Canadian front line police officers reaches the 92% mark (2,410 out of 2,631) in favour of scrapping the country's long gun registry

September

• September 19 — Ohio CCW holders Will and Heather Evans interrupt 18-year-old Anthony Konopinski in the middle of beating up his girlfriend in front of her children in a Wadsworth OH parking lot. (see video →)
• September 22 — Bill C-391, which would have scrapped the Canadian long gun registry, was removed from the order after a motion by the opposition — that the bill should proceed no further, with no reason given — passed by a vote of 153 to 151, after 16 Opposition MPs who had previously voted to scrap the registry flipped.
• September 25 — Canadian gun grabber Mike McCormack is convicted of insubordination while a member of the police service, for illegally accessing information on former Toronto Star reporter John Duncanson (an award-winning journalist who specialized in covering police corruption).
• The Canadian Firearms Program records a total of 1,831,327 valid firearm licences, which is roughly 5.4% of the Canadian population.

Other events

• PROGUN volunteers started a Gun Ban Statistics Project to record violent crimes during the 2010 Philippine Election gun ban.

The year in pictures

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  Feb. 1: Range practice in Bahrain for the EOD.

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  March 11: Faryab province, Afghanistan