Well, the SHOT Show has been over for almost a week now, and I’m still busy with it.
We left the show on Thursday to make our way back to Salt Lake via St. George. That was a relaxing evening, but then the work started. I have a pile of hardcopy press kits (with information about new products for 2011 and other company news items) about 3 feet high, and a stack of kits on CD-ROM about 1 foot high.
This is a lot of material to go through, in addition to the notes and videos and photos taken during three-plus days of hands-on shooting at Media Day at the Range, meetings and interviews and press conferences at the show itself, and from walking both floors of the show from end to end – looking for items that our JeepGunner.com readers will be interested in over the coming year.
And I got back home just in time to start covering our State 2011 Legislative Session. That’s going to get interesting, and there are already some good bills presented. Yesterday I wrote a quick note about the ones out so far – and the house passed the bill making the 1911 the State Gun. We will see what happens – we still have a lot more to come.
At the federal level, we have folks talking about a ban on “high capacity magazines”, which they are defining as anything over 10 rounds. It was tried before as a part of the “assault weapons ban” and it didn’t do anything to help anything – but it did hurt LAW-ABIDING AMERICANS. That is wrong and we CAN NOT let them do it again. Get involved. Join the NRA, join the GOA, contact your elected representatives, but above all DO SOMETHING. Don’t go quietly into the night on this one. It can and must be stopped.
We will have more in this blog and at JeepGunner.com in the near future. Keep checking back.