As the 2019 SHOT Show continues until Friday in Las Vegas, the sounds of discontent with gun control are being heard across the map. (Dave Workman) While tens of thousands of firearms industry professionals including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and media are gathered in Las Vegas for the 2019 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, […]
Fans, Friends Mourn Passing of R. Lee Ermey – ‘The Gunny’
His appearances at the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show and National Rifle Association exhibits, were always a big attraction and people would line up along the aisles for his autograph, sometimes waiting an hour or more to visit briefly with “The Gunny.” When actor and retired U.S. Marine R. Lee Ermey passed […]
As SHOT Show Winds Down, Bump Stocks in the Political Crosshairs
Friday’s wrap of the 2018 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show coincides with more gun control back at the state level, with at least two bump stock ban measures making headway at far ends of the country. There is much irony in this because prior to Oct. 1, 2017, very few people outside the […]
SHOT Show Day 3 in Las Vegas; WA Lawmakers Talk Gun Control
On the third day of the 2018 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, business appears to be booming, but many Evergreen State gun industry folks here are looking homeward where the state House Judiciary Committee is holding public hearings on gun control measures aimed at their rights and livelihoods. Thursday afternoon’s […]
WA Anti-Gunners Whine: Gun Owners Are Contacting Lawmakers
As the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show opened Tuesday in Las Vegas, where tens of thousands of firearms industry professionals are gathering — including many from Washington State — the Seattle-based gun prohibition lobby has a complaint. “We’re less than 72 hours from our next hearing day,” the Alliance for Gun […]
Gun Sales Soar in Cal. as Barack Beats Feet, Sticks Public with $$ Bill
As Barack Obama leaves office, having failed to pass his gun control schemes, there is insult added to injury in that California has reported for the first time that more than a million guns were sold last year in the Golden State. But possibly the greater insult is to the American taxpayer, who gets stuck […]