Shot Show

Mossberg Shotguns

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January 20, 2011
Mossberg Shotguns

I really like shotguns and Mossberg makes cool shotguns.  Naturally, I had a great time looking around their booth, to the extent I went back for a second helping and to acquire a little more information.  They had some really fun (and practical) stuff out on display. First of all their Tactical .22 now...
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The Curse of the Itty Bitty 9

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January 19, 2011
The Curse of the Itty Bitty 9

I found two more of those little 9mm guns today and I recognized them both as ones I’d been asked about.  I was really excited about having a chance to handle both of these guns, since I do like both Sig and Kimber and I had high hopes that if anyone could pull off...
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ParaUSA 14.45 Tactical

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January 19, 2011

ParaUSA has two cool new announcements for 2011 – the first of which is that they’ve brought Travis Tomasie on board as their new shooter. In one of his first official roles, Travis talks about one of their new guns, the ParaUSA 14.45 Tactical. This is a .45 ACP double stack 1911 with a...
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KRISS Vector SMG

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January 18, 2011

The first time I had a chance to shoot the KRISS Vector I had no idea what I was holding, all I knew is that it was really cool. A customer brought one in and let me run a few mags through it, nothing out of the ordinary when you spend your life behind...
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Slim Frame 9mm

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January 18, 2011
Slim Frame 9mm

There are a lot of reasons slim frame 9s are popular, not the least of which is having the concealability factor of an itty bitty gun with a grown up round like a 9mm loaded in it. This popularity is not lost at SHOT Show this year, and today I had the chance to...
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Smith & Wesson M&P-22

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January 18, 2011
Smith & Wesson M&P-22

It is actually here – consider this S&W’s apology for the Governor!  The new M&P-22 is exactly what we’d hoped for, a .22 LR version of the M&P pistol, which has the exact same dimensions at the 9mm and .40 S&W pistols.  If you’re looking for a dedicated .22LR trainer to go with your...
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Shot Show Day Zero Round-Up

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January 17, 2011
Shot Show Day Zero Round-Up

The first (or zeroth) day of SHOT has come and gone, and lots of cool guns have been shot and photographed. Obviously, the big news of the day was the new Smith & Wesson Governor. I did actually have the chance to shoot the gun with both .410 rounds and .45 ACP rounds. While...
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SHOT Show day Zero

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January 17, 2011

SHOT SHOW begins today for media and certain vendors with Media Day at the Range and the Smith & Wesson shootout. At these events, professional outdoors media, be they magazine writers, bloggers, tv crews, or any combo of that will get a chance to actually shoot some of the new firearms that you’ll be...
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Don’t worry ma’am

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December 28, 2010
Don’t worry ma’am

I’m from the internet.  As much as that joke amuses me, this is actually a fairly serious topic that I wanted to talk about, namely the future of the gun community. It’s no secret that I believe Gun Culture 2.0 (as Michael calls it) is driven primarily by the concealed carry and competition markets....
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Ramping up for SHOT

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December 20, 2010

Gun Nuts will be at SHOT this year!  We’ll be attending the 2011 SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas, so starting now I want to know what you guys want to see.  We’ll be doing Media Day the day before the show opens, we’ll likely hit up the Glock press conference, but I want to...
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