My bro Russ Lary reports from the SHOT Show that there\u2019s some pretty high-tech stuff on display, including a security system that links through your AR15\/M4 rifle. Seems that if you turn the rifle\u2019s safety\/selector switch to \u201cFire,\u201d it triggers a signal to lock your gates, etc. \u201cA kid saw a guy get killed by a drive-through bomber, and came up with this concept,\u201d Russ relays. \u201cThe inventor\u2019s feeling was that if a system like this had been in place, it might have kept the vehicle from getting through the gates as soon as the first guard who saw him flipped the safety switch on his rifle.<\/p>\n
We are, indeed, in the 21st<\/sup> Century\u2026<\/p>\n One of our blog readers asked about carrying guns at the SHOT Show. Russ relates the story of a brother cop attending the Show who pulled up at the adjacent host hotel, the Palazzo. It seems that as soon as his car came to a stop, an attendant asked, \u201cSir, do you have any guns in the car?\u201d The cop identified himself and stated that he was carrying an off-duty pistol. He was promptly escorted into the adjacent SHOT Show security center, where his pistol was put in a locker to which he was given the key. Apparently, the host hotel does not even allow off-duty cops to have guns on the premises.<\/p>\n (Guess where one old blog writer will NOT be spending his money the next time he\u2019s in Las Vegas\u2026)<\/p>\n At Backwoods Home\u2019s <\/em>request, Russ has kept his ear to the ground to hear the industry buzz on the current media push for a ban on high capacity magazines. His sense of it, after talking with lots of industry folks (including some who make up to 100-round magazines), is that they don\u2019t really think the proposed new legislation is going to fly. After all, it didn\u2019t work the LAST time it was in effect for ten years\u2026<\/p>\n