Actually, Mr. Douglas, we do have a booklet on that.
Posted on 09/28/2011 6:03:32 AM PDT by marktwain
The firearms industry is thriving in Idaho, and business for some local companies is getting even better. The industry employs thousands of people in Idaho, and a new trade group wants to push that number higher.
A dozen manufacturers gathered Tuesday at the first event hosted by the Idaho Firearms and Accessories Manufacturers Association. The association won a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the expo and for a report — due to USDA next month — on the economic impact of Idaho’s firearms industry.
WHAT IS IFAMA?
Four people started the all-volunteer association a year and a half ago. It’s not a Second Amendment rights group. It’s more commercial, an attempt “to get the manufacturers and distributors (to work) together,” said co-founder Jon Anson of Meridian, who runs a horse ranch and boarding business. “By getting more sales, of course, we can create more jobs.”
Idaho has 120 to 125 licensed firearms manufacturers, Anson estimated.
That doesn’t include people making clothes and other shooting gear. There are “hundreds, maybe thousands” of those small businesses in Idaho, Anson said.
22-CALIBER SUCCESS
Black Dog Machine LLC started with a family making parts in a living room at night. Six years later, the Nampa company makes $2 million in annual gross sales and employs 11 people in the Valley.
Owner Kevin Rich has about 22 years of experience building molds. After getting laid off from Uncle Mike’s, a shooting accessories company, “the gears were turning for my own product line,” he said. “Now, we’ve got basically 175 products.”
Black Dog’s bread and butter is a 22-caliber conversion magazine — ideal for a budget-conscious shooter, since .22 ammunition one-half to one-tenth as expensive as other common bullets. The magazines are used by military, police and tactical shooters and for training.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
It’s big business in Chicago too.
When will Idaho enact Vermont carry?
Department of AGRICULTURE?
Are they growing firearms?
They’ve got to figure out new things to do at Agriculture. There are now more Department of Ag employees than farmers in the US.
Check 'em out!
Actually, Mr. Douglas, we do have a booklet on that.
Spend, spend, spend.
The BlackDog magazines for my CMMG stainless conversion insert, to shoot 22lr in my AR 15s, happen to be the best product on the market. And if you have a problem, the mags are held together with screws so you can separate the sides and fix a problem rather than throw them away. And the family owners are absolutely the best to deal with for ordering or any problem. They also make a mag loader which saves your thumbs when loading hundreds of rounds of 22lr ammo in the mags ... and if you get the kit and their mags, you will be loading thousands of rounds, truly.
I expect it in the next three years.
Brings a tead to one's eye... a tear of joy.
Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread, cement is to concrete, etc. When while reporters ever learn the correct terminology for the subject upon which they write? They are the first to describe a "magazine" as a "clip" and the 45 Auto cartridge as 45 "ACP". Writers on a subject have the responsibility to learn the correct terminology or remain forever an amateur on the subject.
tead —> tear
So, what do you have against the term ACP? It stands for Automatic Colt Pistol. The .45 ACP is one of a series of ACP cartridges the John Moses Browning developed for his pistol designs in the early 20th century. These include the .25 ACP, the .32 ACP, the .380 ACP, and the .38 ACP.
“the John”should be “that John”
He did not help his tirade much with that.....
Other MSM Gun Trivia: Revolvers are loaded with either shells or bullets. Automatic revolvers hold the bullets in a clip and can fire thousands of shots into a schoolyard as long as the trigger is held down.
A repeater is a reporter who can write those facts over and over.
Also, don’t forget that anyone wo commits a crime with a gun is a “gunman” who “opens fire” with his “large capacity Glock”.
If the perp is black or - God-forbid - an illegal Mexican (gasp!), he’s an “unidentified gunman who fled the scene before anyone could identify, and police are still searching for the suspect”;
If the perp is white, he’s automatically a “white supremacist, Neo-nazi with paramilitary training” or “militia ties”
Pretty much sums them up.
Wow, he employes 11 people with only 2 Mill. Obama's have a Billion dollar solar plant in Nevada is only going to employ 45 people. Imagine that, a civilian being more efficient than the whole goobermint. If this guy got the money he would employ a thousand people, not 45.
Too bad he can't expand, haveing to pay all those taxes...
It was changed on referenced cartridges by SAAMI over 70 years ago! SAAMI cartridge designations have been adapted by the American National Standards Institute. Where have you (and so many ill informed gun writers) been? It is no more correct to use obsolete cartridge designations than it is to address a married woman by her maiden name.
In addition, 45 ACP, Caliber 45 Model of 1911, 45 Auto and 45 Auto+P and are not the same cartridge. Period! Each was or is manufactured to a different Technical Data Package. Pressure testing on the first three are not even with the same equipment or pressure testing protocol.
That the subject cartridges may be interchanged in some pistols without catastrophic damage is irrelevant. Every SAAMI member (and most responsible manufacturers world wide) have some variation of the following warning on every box of ammunition, "Use only in firearms originally chambered for this cartridge and so inscribed on the barrel".
To paraphrase a renowned political prudent, "Its the Headstamp, Stupid"!
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