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Good news for smaller shop owners: used guns (if not neglected or banged up) can be purchased relatively cheap, cleaned up and resold for a tidy profit.

Legendary firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch has just introduced a .40 version of its VP series of striker fired pistols.

The 2011 series takes everything that’s great about the good old 1911 and brings it into the modern age, delivering a gun with a solid foundation, time-tested performance, and all of today’s customization features that high-level competitors require to reach their potential.

“The M9A3 represents the next generation military handgun utilizing the best of the legacy M9 combined with proven COTS modifications that increase performance and durability.”

The company says slowing sales in "modern sporting rifles" accounted for 87 percent of the nearly $40 million first quarter earnings decline.

In reaction to continued market slump, major outdoor group cuts jobs for second time this year.

Despite a slowdown in sales, most observers in the industry see this as a good-news-bad-news kind of scenario, especially in light of the general perception that, despite the bubble shrinkage, the current firearms industry is in overall good health.

Leaked study shows harsh rules might be imposed on gun stores who want to open in violence-wracked city.

Leaked study shows harsh rules might be imposed on gun stores who want to open in violence-wracked city.