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. FNH USA Announces Top Dealer, Distributor Contest Winners F NH USA ran two promotional contests between June and September 2008, one to reward a top dealer and the other to reward a top salesperson at an FNH USA distributor. Mike and Patsy Emory of Tomball Pawn & Jewelry in Tomball, Texas, won a seven-night, $8,000 vacation at the Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada, Fla., as the top dealer. The Emorys started their business in Tomball 25 years ago. “We get a lot of requests for FN firearms, and we are very pleased at the support we get from FNH USA,” said Mike Emory. “We want to support dealers who support us,” said Barbara Sadowy-Bailey, FNH USA marketing director. In order to be eligible to enter the contest, dealers had to purchase at least 20 FN firearms between June 1 and Sept. 30, 2008. Dealers earned redemption coupons worth chances to win the vacation according to the number of Mike Emory (and his wife, Patsy) won FNH USA’s dealer contest. firearms purchased. Dealers meeting the minimum-purchasing requirement were eligible to win free guns in addition to going into the drawing for the top prize. FNH USA also announced that Jack Gooldy of Davidson’s Inc. is the winner of $2,500 cash in a drawing to reward Davidson’s sales rep Jack Gooldy won FNH the top salesperson. USA’s cash drawing. Each authorized distributor’s top salesperson earned a redemption coupon for every 10 guns sold between June 1 and Sept. 30, 2008. The coupons went into a drawing for free FNH USA firearms: an FS 2000 carbine, a PS90 carbine and an FNP 45. In addition, these salespersons were entered into a drawing for the cash prize of $2,500. “FNH USA makes some of the finest products in the industry, and I feel honored to be able to sell their line,” said Gooldy. Visit www.fnhusa.com for more information. What Your Customers Are Reading Now! SEC 2 10/16/08 9:51 PM Page 62 SEC 2 10/16/08 9:57 PM Page 63 T gritty and traveled and some but impossible Giusseppe trigger pull was 92, designed by under Carlo double action first polymer pistol was inaccurate, he classic Model inch. Beretta’s jam-amatics. Valle working line in handgun specimens, werelast Model 9000 rolled off the Beretta Mazzetti and Vittorio To a classic piece of slide the shut down sooner. I’m told the Beretta, had been It should have beenthe famed museum of ted the open first quarter 2005. I suppose made a one on engineering. It incorpora to have at least ni had long beforethe Walther keep historical continuity, in Brescia will have to in black crepe. great Tullio Marengo Beretta firearms , and paid homage it should be draped competitive, Beretta hallmark one design feature. But it display, but I submit making things right. 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But a rifle is still better. guess it goes without saying we can But the extent to which we actually fight with a handgun. believe it actually is a viable fighting practice with one and tool might be another issue. I have said, “you use a handgun to fight your way to a rifle you shouldn’t have put Another writer wrote in an article down in the first place.” call “bullshit” on my statement of later on saying he would using a pistol to get to a rifle. Like many things today, the word twisting manipulation of what I said was used to get a point across which was if As far as fighting with a handgun, the current military establishment (most notably Special Operations side of the the house) has a funny thing going which might be a cross between an anomaly and an oxymoron. First of all, fighting with a handgun? Why would I want to fight with a handgun and exert all of the massive amounts of time, energy and money to master a handgun other than CDI factor? From the other sidethe my mouth, so to speak, comes of the the unlimited category as complaint about the ineffectiveness anywhere of the .223 cartridge. So they would in the military today. I’m just not sure how much effort rather fight with a pistol than a .223 rif le? Not really. In reality I believe and energy should be put into the handgun. Can it save a life? they would rather fight with the Can it take a life? It can. Is It can. it a good Dave Williams and the Springfi eld Armory people created Clint’s first integral rail framed 1911 pistol. “You use a Marines get on handguns, them handguns being such a great combat weapon and all? I know SOC has designated the Marines of the 24th MEU to have 1911 pistols, but I also know there isn’t one in the whole •Boot Business •the sound of Crime? ade •Bl teCh Gear Heidi and a 5" XD .45 pistol … big yes, effective yes, worth the trouble … without a doubt. SCAR or a Knight something or military fighting tool? Arguable a 6.8. Then again you can’t watch at MEU. So what they are rated, best. The bottom line is if a handgun both anything about them on TV or guns and training wise, promotional in which they are in serves as a personal defense weapon, what is actually issued. may not be not or it makes the carrier feel zipping down a set of plates on good a supports a crew served weapon, or it Civilians plate rack as they Groucho walk then across the range. So the thought here I hope they have them available. On From a civilian standpoint we the other hand, how much training is let’s spend lots of time shooting have the advantage pistol while we complain about a does the rest of the big Army or handgun we chose of picking the to fight and win the .223. Yet the pistol, any pistol, isn’t as good as a .223. Neither are worth a crap if you don’t hit the intended target. About now someone will go ape crap that I am un-American, antimilitary, etcetera and in reality it is the exact opposite. I think we should give our troops the best guns, the best personal armor, the best vehicles and equipment, as well as best training appropriate to their the jobs that money can buy. The government, which is you and I, isn’t giving them the best stuff right now. I know there isn’t unlimited money or unlimited training time and ammunition but the Spec Ops people come as close to Volkmann Combatant Carry a mid size 1911. to fight your way to a have put down in the ” you PR 11/20/08 4:58 PM 12 GUNS COMBAT • 2009 SPECIAL EDITION WWW.GUNSMAGAZINE.COM 13 18 JFCOP.indd 1 Read SI DIGITAL www.shootingindustry.com • SHOT SHOW EXTRA SUPER ISSUE 2009