On Monday was the range day (at the Boulder City Rifle & Pistol Club) – this year by invitation only. Today; on Tuesday 20 January the show really starts and open its doors.
People from the firearms industry makes attending SHOT Show their first and top priority of every new year. But the show isn’t just about the business deals and seeing new products – it is also Las Vegas with all the other shows, restaurants and gambling.
For many people SHOT Show is something to remember and so they are looking for SHOT Show merchandise. So far, there were only pins. So this year there will be T-shirts and Base Caps at the SHOT Show Store is.
New for 2015, the SHOT Show store will host a variety of merchandise, including ball caps, long- and short-sleeved T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts and jackets, all proudly displaying NSSF’s 2015 SHOT Show logo. A wide variety of sizes will be available. These are limited-edition items and once they’re gone they’re gone for good, so get to the grand opening of the 2015 SHOT Show store early. The store can be found in the Level 2 lobby of the Sands Expo and Convention Center, close to the NSSF booth and just across from the staircase leading to the exhibits on Level 1.
The SHOT Show (SHOT stands for Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) is the once-a-year gathering place for the shooting, hunting and outdoors industry - manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, publishers and wildlife conservation organizations. It’s where a passion for firearms, ammunition and outdoors equipment, plus the industry’s unified support for the Second Amendment, are on display. The SHOT Show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. The show is produced and managed by ConvExx. The show generates millions of the dollars in revenue that funds NSSF programs and services that help “promote, protect and preserve” hunting and the shooting sports. Among those programs are Project ChildSafe, the industry’s firearm safety education program; Don’t Lie for the Other Guy, which works to help prevent illegal straw purchases; and First Shots, which provides introductions to target shooting.
This is the 37th annual SHOT Show. The first SHOT Show was in 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri. The SHOT Show has been held 16 times in Las Vegas, more than in any other host city, including consecutively since 2010. SHOT Show will be presented at the Sands Expo and Convention Center through 2020, under the latest agreement.
The SHOT Show boasts 12.5MI of aisles—just a little less than the distance of half a marathon. Exhibitors, buyers, media and other industry professionals hail from all 50 states and 100 countries. Nearly 70,000 professionals in the shooting, hunting and outdoors industry attended SHOT Show in 2014. The show is for trade only and is not open to the general public. The 2015 SHOT Show will have more than 1,600 exhibitors and more than 2,400 members of the outdoor and mainstream media, including international media, cover the show and promote the products they see at SHOT in their print, Internet, radio and television stories. The Law Enforcement section remains the fastest growing segment of the SHOT Show. To illustrate this growth, law enforcement was started 12 years ago, covering 7,000 square feet; today it covers more than 170,000 square feet of the show.
This years SHOT Show seems to be even bigger than 2014: Over 2,100 people attended the opening night NSSF State of the Industry Dinner at the 2014 SHOT Show, there were over 340,000 visits by attendees at the 2014 SHOT Show to the 2014 SHOT Show mobile app, 98% of all exhibitors at the 2014 SHOT Show renewed their booth space for the 2015 SHOT Show before the 2014 SHOT Show even concluded. And the 2014 SHOT Show brought over $89.6 million in non-gaming revenue to the Las Vegas economy. Firearms and ammunition are a $8 billion industry. The total economic impact of the industry is nearly $38 billion, which supports more than 245,000 jobs, so the organizers.
People from the firearms industry makes attending SHOT Show their first and top priority of every new year. But the show isn’t just about the business deals and seeing new products – it is also Las Vegas with all the other shows, restaurants and gambling.
For many people SHOT Show is something to remember and so they are looking for SHOT Show merchandise. So far, there were only pins. So this year there will be T-shirts and Base Caps at the SHOT Show Store is.
New for 2015, the SHOT Show store will host a variety of merchandise, including ball caps, long- and short-sleeved T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts and jackets, all proudly displaying NSSF’s 2015 SHOT Show logo. A wide variety of sizes will be available. These are limited-edition items and once they’re gone they’re gone for good, so get to the grand opening of the 2015 SHOT Show store early. The store can be found in the Level 2 lobby of the Sands Expo and Convention Center, close to the NSSF booth and just across from the staircase leading to the exhibits on Level 1.
The SHOT Show (SHOT stands for Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) is the once-a-year gathering place for the shooting, hunting and outdoors industry - manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, publishers and wildlife conservation organizations. It’s where a passion for firearms, ammunition and outdoors equipment, plus the industry’s unified support for the Second Amendment, are on display. The SHOT Show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. The show is produced and managed by ConvExx. The show generates millions of the dollars in revenue that funds NSSF programs and services that help “promote, protect and preserve” hunting and the shooting sports. Among those programs are Project ChildSafe, the industry’s firearm safety education program; Don’t Lie for the Other Guy, which works to help prevent illegal straw purchases; and First Shots, which provides introductions to target shooting.
This is the 37th annual SHOT Show. The first SHOT Show was in 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri. The SHOT Show has been held 16 times in Las Vegas, more than in any other host city, including consecutively since 2010. SHOT Show will be presented at the Sands Expo and Convention Center through 2020, under the latest agreement.
The SHOT Show boasts 12.5MI of aisles—just a little less than the distance of half a marathon. Exhibitors, buyers, media and other industry professionals hail from all 50 states and 100 countries. Nearly 70,000 professionals in the shooting, hunting and outdoors industry attended SHOT Show in 2014. The show is for trade only and is not open to the general public. The 2015 SHOT Show will have more than 1,600 exhibitors and more than 2,400 members of the outdoor and mainstream media, including international media, cover the show and promote the products they see at SHOT in their print, Internet, radio and television stories. The Law Enforcement section remains the fastest growing segment of the SHOT Show. To illustrate this growth, law enforcement was started 12 years ago, covering 7,000 square feet; today it covers more than 170,000 square feet of the show.
This years SHOT Show seems to be even bigger than 2014: Over 2,100 people attended the opening night NSSF State of the Industry Dinner at the 2014 SHOT Show, there were over 340,000 visits by attendees at the 2014 SHOT Show to the 2014 SHOT Show mobile app, 98% of all exhibitors at the 2014 SHOT Show renewed their booth space for the 2015 SHOT Show before the 2014 SHOT Show even concluded. And the 2014 SHOT Show brought over $89.6 million in non-gaming revenue to the Las Vegas economy. Firearms and ammunition are a $8 billion industry. The total economic impact of the industry is nearly $38 billion, which supports more than 245,000 jobs, so the organizers.
Andre Forkert
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