Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL SAN DIEGO CA PERMIT NO 3013 U.S. POSTAGE PAID inside this issue: • FMG Publications Add Digital Editions To Lineup • SHOT Show Lessons • Featuring Your New Products • NEW Look Industry Wire Published by: FMG Publications 12345 World Trade Dr. San Diego, CA 92128 (800) 537-3006 • FAX (858) 605-0247 Email: info@fmgnews.com ® ® ® Printed on recycled paper Don’t Try This With Fake “Deterrent Guns” Yeah, you’re just cruisin’ along doin’ 20 over the limit when you spot that police cruiser sorta semi-stealthily squattin’ at the side of the road and screeeech!!! You stand on the brake pedal, hoping the cop didn’t get you on radar. You’ve been there and done that, right? Soon, you might be in luck, and that copmobile won’t be a real police car — just a hollow shell, a deterrent put there to get you to slow down. A Sacramento company called National Police Presence is marketing “decoy cop cars,” promising public officials the cruiser look-alikes will slow down speeders and intimidate crooks. For $12,990 you get a realistic-looking fake police car with no engine or real doors, just wheels, so it can be towed and dropped off at selected locations. Years ago Sweden tried to slow traffic down by using life-size one-dimensional fake police cars, traffic cops holding radar guns, and — the overwhelming favorite of the hundreds of people who began “liberating” them and carrying them away — a really cool-looking motorcycle cop perched on his bike! Folks were walking away with those lightweight deterrents as fast as the state could put them out. In Vilnius, Latvia, the city distributed hundreds of “cardboard cops” along problem stretches of streets and boulevards, and they too learned that people liked ’em a little too much. And, when it rained or there was just a heavy fog, the “paper police” just kinda melted and curled up on the ground, leaving a sodden lump of soggy cardboard in the middle of a spreading pool of blue paint. Bomb Bag Chaos They wouldn’t have missed a nail clipper, but airport security personnel in Brisbane, Australia, admitted they missed a big duffel bag with the word BOMB written on its side. The story got even better after the bomb-bag passed through Qantas check-in screening. Following about 40 minutes of muddling and wondering what to do, unnamed managers dragged the bag, still unscreened, into a more populated area of the airport. Finally some grownups arrived. The bombbag was isolated, carefully removed to an appropriate remote area and examined. Explosive ordnance experts determined the only volatile thing about the bag was the language marked on it. Some people weren’t very comforted by that. Asked for comment, TWU national airline official Scott Connolly said, “What happened today is far from ideal, and if the device was actually a real bomb, the way it was handled would have been a disaster.” Duh. Really? Illustration by Nick Petrosino