SHOT Show 2023

January 21, 2023 10:33am

Yesterday was the final day of the 2023 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. SHOT, which is an acronym for Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade is the largest gathering of the firearms industry and Second Amendment advocates.

At the SHOT Show, I recorded several interviews which aired on my radio program today. Interviews were with Dana Loesch (host of The Dana Show), Sebastian Gorka (host of America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka), Mark Walters (host of Armed American Radio), Kevin Stitt (Governor of Oklahoma), and Chris Smith (owner of Gulf Coast Gun & Outdoors). All those interviews aired on my radio program today.

The interview with Governor Stitt was not planned in advance. I attended the SHOT Show's Governors Forum during which governors from Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Idaho, Mississippi, and Wyoming discussed firearms issues among other topics. It is not a coincidence that those governors were all Republicans. Very few Democrats support the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Well, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt told a great story about the time PETA launched an anti-meat campaign against him. So at the end of the forum, I asked him to re-tell it for you on my radio show.

Beyond those interviews, the SHOT Show consisted of walking the exhibit floors and talking to the exhibitors about their products which ranged from sunglasses to machine guns; from bullets to armored vehicles; and from law enforcement training to hunting safaris. The SHOT Show also hosted many educational seminars put on by the FBI, BATFE, and other government entities. I attended the town hall discussion with ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and about a half dozen others in ATF leadership. Although they took questions, the questions could not be asked directly. They had to be submitted in writing on index cards. Needless to say, mine was somehow never selected to be asked. Surprise, surprise, huh?