SHOT SHOW NEWS
The SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade) Show – THE annual gathering for the firearms industry – is going on now in Las Vegas.
So far, there seems to be more derivation and evolution than revolution.
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STUDENTS REINFORCE LESSONS FOR TEACHERS
For 19 years, I served as chair of the Firearms Committee for ASLET, the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and spent a few years on their Ethics Committee as well. ASLET’s motto was...
FINDING THE GRAIL
A while back, I posted about “grail guns,” items collectors have a particular yen for. Mine was the full-size Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver in the iconic 3.5” barrel configuration. We got lots...
SHOT SHOW 2017, PART 1
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s annual Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show begins officially this coming Tuesday. The SHOT show is the largest thing of its kind in the firearms industry. It’s the single...
RETRO MONTH IN RETROSPECT
“The Guns of August” were, for me, retro; see earlier August blog entries here. It’s August 31, and tonight I’ll regretfully clean my classic old Smith & Wesson Model 19s and put them back...