Originally Posted by
elephant
I just got back from the NRA annual convention in Dallas. It was pretty big, almost every vendor and manufacture you can think of was there. I got there just as soon as President Trump started his speech. Trumps speech was good. Vice President Pence speech was good as well. I didn't stay long enough to see Senator Cornyn, Cruz or Governor Abbott speak. The place was crowded and I was surprised that there wasn't any security. No metal detectors, no bag checks, nothing!
I was impressed on the size and showcase of some of these manufactures booths, Seekings, H&K, Colt, Sig, Magpul, Nightforce, FN, Daniel Defense, Surefire, Bushmaster, 5.11, IWI, Barrett, Aimpoint, Trijicon, Aimpoint, EoTech, SilencerCo, Winchester, Beretta, Blackhawk had really nice interactive set ups with lots of products. However, I was a little surprised to see some of the large manufactures in tiny booths at the back like KAC, Gemtech, AAC, Geissele, TNVC, Vortex, Faxon, LWRC and BCM. If you didn't know who they were, the size of there booths would leave you to believe they were a small company. But overall, each booth was set up nice, even the small ones at the back.
I got to talk one on one with Trey Knight from Knights Armament for 45 minutes or so, I also got some face to face time with guys at Surefire, Barrett, Daniel Defense, Nightforce, Precision Reflex and Magpul. These were fun guys to talk to and I like that they take time to talk to customers. A lot of free swag from most booths in the form of Velcro patches, stickers, key chains etc. I loaded up on free swag.
I think you can see just about everything in about 4 hours. There is a lot of smaller business there that are selling holsters, slings, knifes, reloading equipment, storage, cleaning etc. but a majority of the large, name brand manufactures are grouped together. I think there was a total of 5 protesters when I got there and only 1 when I left.
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