Extravaganza! Good Lord, I love that word.<\/p>\n
But for firearms folk, the SHOT Show <\/a>(the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade exhibition) early each year is THE big industry show for the firearms industry. It\u2019s in Las Vegas this year (as it is most years). And, yes, I\u2019ll be there to cover it for you.<\/p>\n More or less\u2026<\/p>\n I got to Nevada ahead of the show, to sit down with a guy and his attorneys in regard to a Murder charge lodged against the guy in question. This person is a law-abiding armed citizen who shot and killed a robber, and stands charged with Murder. Looks like clear-cut self-defense to me: we\u2019ll see, before too terribly long, what the jury decides.\u00a0 Suffice to say that things like this take precedence on my schedule over cool new firearms.<\/p>\n This coming Monday is the day scheduled for us gun writers to go to at least three separate firing ranges in the area to test-fire new guns. I\u2019m going to miss some if not all of that.\u00a0 At least part of my Monday will be spent finishing a few days of seminars that encompass both bare-handed martial arts and the use of the gun in defense of the innocent. Frankly, learning survival skills that you can pass on to others who needs them is ALSO more important than shooting cool new guns.<\/p>\n I\u2019m hooked up with a group called the ProArms Podcast <\/a>. Last year, their producer and editor came down sick, and Dave Duffy at Backwoods Home was kind enough to let them copy my Backwoods Home blog entries on the new stuff to their forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n Well, it seemed like I needed some payback given my scheduling situation, so producer\/editor (AKA: PrEditor) Gail Pepin<\/a> at ProArms Podcast gave me permission to reprint THEIR blog-site here. Quid pro quo. Pro-Arms honcho Jon Strayer, a Five-Gun Master shooter, also runs one of the coolest gun shops anywhere, and had a chance to attend a pre-SHOT Show live-fire test of some of the new stuff.<\/p>\n