NRAAM Off to a Great Start
Day one of the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits is in the can and the third of the big early-year firearms shows is off to a great start already. GunLink staff is on hand to cover the show with all of the new and exciting products, services and more being offered to the shooting, hunting and outdoors communities and the coverage starts here. Keep an eye on the GunLink Blog as well as the GunLink Forums for the latest guns, gadgets and more.
GunLink staff has been covering NSSF SHOT Show for several years now but the 2014 NRAAM marks our first visit to this show, so we weren’t sure what to expect. We spend day one roaming the sometimes-narrow and often-crowded aisles of the exhibit floor, visiting with companies and plotting out our agenda for the remainder of the show. We caught up with some familiar faces like Lola and Hank Strange, N82 Tactical, MyCaseBuilder.com, Sticky Holsters, the KelTec crew and others. 
We are also getting a chance to meet up with less familiar faces with new and exciting offerings for target shooters, hunters and defensive firearm owners. There is a strong presence of companies offering products catering to female shooters and, since we have one of our female editors here at the show, we will be able to provide a more useful perspective on those products.
The NRAAM exhibit hall floor is packed with show special pricing on various products and we are taking advantage of a number of them including some new Continue reading
Q&A with Stars of CMT’s Guntucky
We had a chance for a quick Q&A session with some of the stars from CMT’s Guntucky. The reality series, gearing up to start their second season, focuses on the Sumner family as they run Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky KCR, of course, is home to the bi-annual machine gun shoot, an event that showcases some serious firepower and was featured in season one. If you missed season one, you can watch and discuss full episodes on the GunLink forums here.
The 10-episode season one featured 30-minute episodes that included some pretty zany antics including exploding log cabins, Zombie Apocalypse preparations, a doomsday-ready SUV and a firearms crash course for the firearms first-timer boyfriend of Stephanie Sumner… from her dad!
Kenny Sumner, co-owner of the range, and his brother Steven answered some questions for GunLink: Continue reading
NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits Heading to Indianapolis for 2014
The busy spring season for firearms and outdoor shows is wrapping up later this month as the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits speed into the home of the Indy 500. The annual event, which moves around the nation each year, will be held at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis from Friday April 25 through Sunday the 27th.
Attendance is free for NRA members and online registration is available now. If you are not already an NRA member, you can join online now and save $10 on your membership dues.
NRAAM hosts over 600 exhibitors that cover more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit hall space, this show is sure to have something for everyone. Unlike SHOT Show earlier in the year, which is an industry-only event, NRAAM is open to the public, who spend the show’s three days visiting every major firearm and firearm accessory manufacturer in the country, seeing beautiful collections of priceless firearms and more. The GunLink crew will be there to capture the action and bring you coverage of the latest guns, gear and more.
The event isn’t just about the exhibits, either! There are dinners and benefit auctions, leadership forums and entertainment including the NRA Country Jam and a special appearances by Alabama, Sara Evans and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North at the Stand & Fight Rally. Continue reading
Spring 2014 Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot and Gun Show
The bi-annual Machine Gun Shoot at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky is coming up in just a couple of weeks. The three-day event, held this year on April 11, 12 and 13, draws attendees from all over the globe to the gun range outside of Louisville. Attendees can witness the spectacle of several day and night shoots as dozens of full-auto weapons sling tons (literally) of lead down range. In addition to spectating at the reserved main firing line of NFA collectors and enthusiasts, attendees can rent machine guns to shoot, compete in a number of shooting competitions and find great deals at the gun show which features hundreds of dealers and individuals from all over.
General admission for the event is $15/day for adults and $5/day for children under 12. On-site camping is also available starting at $20 per person. Unlike in past years where attendees would have to worry about the weather causing issues with vehicular access to the range, the new bridge makes it virtually impossible to get flooded out. Please note that Saturday April 12 coincides with the the Kentucky Derby Festival kick-off celebration in Downtown Louisville, so plan for traffic and accommodations accordingly.
Find the full schedule for the spring 2014 KCR Machine Gun Shoot here. View Spring 2013 KCR Machine Gun Shoot photos here and watch the videos below. Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Tac Daddy Live!
Our friends from the TacDaddy Live crew celebrated a milestone last night with the 1-year anniversary of their Thursday night live gun-chat show. Big congratulations to Kevin, Spectre, Glock Brothers, Fidelis Patriot, Reichro and all the guests that have been on the show and made it what it is and helped to grow the show over the past year.
If you’re looking for something to do on a Thursday night, head over to the TacDaddy YouTube channel at 9PM Eastern to join in live. If you can’t make it to the live show, all of the shows are archive on his channel and you can join the discussion on the TacDaddy board on the GunLink Forums.
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It’s a Wrap for SHOT Show 2014
Another SHOT Show is wrapped up from the Sands Expo Center in Fabulous Las Vegas and attendees were treated to the introduction of many new products. Some products will change the way you use your firearms, some are reinvented wheels and some are just plain “out there.” Since SHOT Show is industry-only, the GunLink crew and friends were on hand to cover the show and help scratch your itch for firearms industry news until you (hopefully) get a chance to attend one of the other upcoming shows.
During SHOT Show week, we got to fire some innovative (and fun!) weapons. We traveled thousands of miles across the United States only to run into the folks that run the range where I’m a member as well as a gun maker that grew up (and still has family) right in GunLink HQ’s neighborhood. We saw Greg Jordan beat out Taran Butler and take home $50,000 from the 3 Gun Nation Ruble on the Range championships.
During the State of the Industry Dinner, we saw NSSF and POMA give the Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Awarda to a man who called the AR-15 platform “terrorist rifles” and called for their ban. The unbelievability of that was topped only by the Penn & Teller act that immediately followed. There was good news at Continue reading
