The Firearm Blog

Three well known gun photographers allowed me use of their SHOT Show ‘09 photos on the blog. Without those photos my SHOT coverage would not have been nearly as interesting for you to read and for me to write. A big thanks to, in no particular order …

Remigiusz Wilk (REMOV). REMOV covers military expos on both sides of the Atlantic as the editor-in-chief of Bron i Amunicja. REMOV has been known to visit The Firearm Blog from time to time

REMOV shouldering the 7.62mm Magpul Massoud at SHOT.

Chen “SMGLee” Lee. I don’t know what Chen does for a living but he is notorious for getting access to military gear before anyone else does. Luckily for us he is also a keen photographer and took over 600 photos at SHOT Show alone! SMGLee has been spotted on this blog a couple of times

Chen at SHOT probably wishing he could take the KAC PDW home

Dr Ken Lunde. Ken is computer scientist and author working for Adobe. He is a talented and prolific gun photographer who has covered SHOT for the past few years.

All of these guys are first class photographers and we are all fortunate they take the time to post their work online.

Ed was working at SHOT.

His coverage is here and here.

A few days before SHOT I made seven predictions on what would and would not be launched at SHOT. SayUncle agreed to take on the prestigious role of unbiased judge and has given me my score:

1. Ruger will not launch an AR-15. Correct

2. A new cartridge will be unveiled. FAIL (a new cartridge was launched just before SHOT but it is not yet a production cartridge)

3. A non-autoloader rifle will chamber the .30 Remington AR (.30 RAR) cartridge. FAIL

4. Magpul will demo some whizz-bang concept gun. FAIL

5. Ruger LCP available in 9mm. FAIL

7. A new bullpup bolt action rifle will be released. FAIL

6. Ruger Mini-14 will get a minor upgrade but not what people where hoping for. FAIL

8. A 4th Generation Glock, if launched, will not convince any 1911 fanboy that plastic is cool. Correct

So that is a 2/8. Cerberus will not be employing me as a gun industry analyst anytime soon

I can’t believe Remington did not convince anyone, including their bolt-action rifle division, to chamber a rifle in .30 RAR – new cartridges sell rifles. Ruger dropped the ball by not launching a 9mm LCP. I will be saving my bullpup bolt rifle prediction for next year.