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SHOT Show: The Last Bastion of Growing Conservatism
Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2014 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 01/20/2014 11:43:27 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/20/2014 11:43:27 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

2x4’s? for a show display? really?


2 posted on 01/20/2014 12:02:25 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan

I’m gonna go ahead and say that’s a stock photo. SHOT Show is in Nevada I think. That’s a Californiz flag. I assume that’s a pic from a gun confiscation.


3 posted on 01/20/2014 12:04:29 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

*California


4 posted on 01/20/2014 12:05:31 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Kaslin

The Shot Show is where firearms and defense related manufacturers/distributors show case their products to buyers from wholesalers and retailers of the items. You have to be in the industry or invited press to attend.

If you attend and are interested in guns & firearms related gear, you are in heaven.

I was able to attend a few years back on the kind invite of a gun manufacturer who I was acquainted with. He had rented a booth which gave him a number of passes for his people and had a pass available for me. I had 3 days to browse the show and still didn’t see everything.


5 posted on 01/20/2014 12:41:14 PM PST by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: thefactor
SHOT Show is in Nevada I think.

SHOT Show is in Las Vegas, NV. They used to bounce back and forth between Orlando and Vegas, but now just in Vegas.

Of the California attendees I met there this year, nobody wanted to be from California.

Also, the ATF booth was probably the least visited booth there. Suits with pointed toed shoes. blccch.

6 posted on 01/20/2014 12:47:38 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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They could have cleaned up with a dunk tank for the ATF boys.


7 posted on 01/20/2014 1:15:04 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: Kaslin
[Art.] The divided GOP should look to the gun industry for insights on how to make progress on conservative issues.

Nice idea, but unfortunately the RiNO GOP-e types shrink in horror from the idea of victory and the responsibility that would come with it.

Instead they just want to have "a seat at the table" where they can short-change Main Street Republicans by cashing in their people's chips in exchange for rainmaking tax breaks for giant corporations.

They just want to do deals with the Armies of the Night, not overcome them.

8 posted on 01/20/2014 3:24:06 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: thefactor
I assume that’s a pic from a gun confiscation.

Nah, that could easily be a flag hung by a California exhibitor at SHOT. I see flags at smaller gun shows all the time.

9 posted on 01/20/2014 3:25:09 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: thefactor

Good eye. And it has no barrel, so it won’t accidentally start shooting up the room. Those Californians know how to subdue an assault rifle. Excuse me, a BLACK assault rifle.


10 posted on 01/20/2014 3:29:04 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: lentulusgracchus

Most people hang flags horizontally, at trade shows, and not on flag stands.


11 posted on 01/20/2014 3:31:23 PM PST by rabidralph
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I would never go to Vegas, there is nothing there I would consider “conservative”


12 posted on 01/20/2014 3:32:06 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: rabidralph
Well, yeah, they get 'em up there so folks can see across the hall.

There's no rule, though, and I've seen 'em both ways.

13 posted on 01/20/2014 3:34:13 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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I don't like a) who built it or b) why it was built (to rip off guys on troop trains headed for the Coast).

Never been there, and I've sworn I'll never go. There's a reason Stephen King blew it up in The Stand.

14 posted on 01/20/2014 3:36:13 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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There's a reason Stephen King blew it up in The Stand.

lol

15 posted on 01/20/2014 3:38:42 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I used to like staying in Vegas... when I was going to NTS to do nuke tests.


16 posted on 01/20/2014 3:40:02 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: lentulusgracchus
Well, here's the rifle display, with the California flag on a pole, for use as a prop for a gun grabber. The link was on another thread. Kind of serendipitous.
17 posted on 01/20/2014 4:39:36 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Kaslin; All

$7500 invested in Ruger the week of Feb 2009 would be worth $92,986 today.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RGR+Interactive#symbol=rgr;range=5y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;


18 posted on 01/20/2014 4:49:39 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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Nice takedown of the gun-grabber agitprop, whoever did it.


19 posted on 01/20/2014 4:51:37 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Yeah, those deconstructions are always fun to watch. If only the general public could figure it out.


20 posted on 01/20/2014 4:54:47 PM PST by rabidralph
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