A good day indeed

You can't call it a bad day when you get to meet and shake hands with an astronaut (William Sheppard) and a medal of honor winner (SFC Davis).

SOFIC 2009

I may have found a secondary gun nut paradise. I'm down at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa. Out on the show floor is every medium and small arms manufacturer that sells to, or wants to sell to, the operator community. Dillon Aero has 2 of their pop up minigun mounts here. Daniel Defense with their new DDM4. Mark LaRue is here in person, the nicest guy you could want to meet, and he won't let you walk away until you have a "Beverage Entry Tool" and a container of his dry rub (spicing for meat) in hand. Everything is hands on, althe way from FN and glock pistols up through an M2 and the improved LAW rockets.

While the conference is focused on military sales, every manufacturer I talked to supports the civilian market and said they were committed to making civilian legal versions of their products (other than the LAW rockets, obviously).

In FN news, the rep mentioned that they are working on batch of 500 SCAR's for the civilian market and they are almost ready to ship, after the first batch of 200 went so fast.

The downside of the SOFIC conference? Pictures are forbidden, so no pictures of all of the funderful gunnie toys on display, just great memories.