Editing 2010

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Interesting year.  Gun ownership in the [[US]] rose to an all-time high, while violent crime fell to a [[Myth:more guns means more crime|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 [[trigger lock|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 [[Kimber Ultra RCP II|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 [[Chiappa Rhino|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]] &mdash; The Supreme Court granted the [[NRA]]'s motion for divided argument in the case of [[McDonald v. Chicago]].

== March ==
* [[March 2]] &mdash; SCOTUS begins hearing oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago.

== April ==
* [[April 2]] &mdash; 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 [[Canadian gun registry|firearm(s) and registration certificates]].
* [[April 14]] &mdash; 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]] &mdash; 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]] &mdash; 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]] &mdash; 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 ==
* ''False flag:'' During the Philippine National Police Gun Summit, a previously unknown organization called "Total Pro-Gun Confederation" was selected [[PROGUN#Relations_with_other_organizations|to speak on behalf of the Philippine Firearms community]].
* [[June 18]] &mdash; [[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]] &mdash; 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]] &mdash; 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]] &mdash; 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.
* [[June 29]] &mdash; The [[Second Amendment Foundation]], along with [[Grass Roots North Carolina]] and three North Carolina citizens, filed [[Bateman vs. Perdue]], which seeks to prevent local officials and local governments from declaring states of emergency under which private citizens are prohibited from exercising their right to bear arms.

== July ==
* [[July 14]] &mdash; [[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 <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[FFL|licensed gun dealer]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales.”

== August ==
* [[August 19]] &mdash; 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 ==
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* [[September 19]] &mdash; 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 &rarr;) 
* [[September 22]] &mdash; [[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 [[List of MPs who flipped on C-391|16 Opposition MPs]] who had previously voted to scrap the registry flipped.
* [[September 25]] &mdash; 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 [[PAL|firearm licences]], which is roughly 5.4% of the Canadian population.  

== Also this year ==
* [[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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File:EOD range practice.jpg|[[Feb. 1]]: Range practice in Bahrain for the EOD.
File:NorwegiansolderHK416.jpg|[[March 11]]: Faryab province, Afghanistan 







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