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. Continued from page 46 A Clint Smith DVDs Hot Sellers C Birchwood Casey Celebrates 60 Years ongratulations to Birchwood Casey on 60 years of providing shooters, collectors and gunsmiths innovative products, including Tru-Oil Gun Stock Finish, Perma Blue Liquid Gun Blue and ShootN-C Targets. Company officials marked the anniversary during a dinner at the SHOT Show. Visit www.birchwoodcasey.com. hot seller at our SHOT Show booths was the DVD firearm training series featuring Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch. The DVDs, filmed at Clint’s training facility in Oregon, were produced by FMG Publications and are offered exclusively by Thunder Ranch and FMG. Given the overwhelming response to the DVDs at the show, Randy Moldé, our promotions director, is considering offering the series to dealers for sale in their stores. There are six training sessions in the series, each featuring two DVDs of Clint’s unique teaching style. The DVD titles are “Defensive Handgun,” “Urban Rifle,” “Defensive Tactics,” and new for 2008: “Defensive Revolver,” “Defensive Shotgun” and “Defensive Firearms.” Visit www.americanhandgunner.com for more information on the series. While you’re on the Web site, you may purchase each twoDVD set for $49.95. Better yet, e-mail Randy Moldé and let him know you want to sell the series in your store. Randy’s e-mail: randy@ shootingindustry.com. I llinois gun dealers have banded together as the newest state chapter of the National Association of Firearms Retailers (NAFR), a division of NSSF. The Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers (ILAFR) will represent the rights of the 1,750 federally licensed firearms retailers in the Prairie State. And, as in all states, there are plenty of challenges. “Whether facing anti-gun legislation, overzealous regulations or frivolous lawsuits, firearms retailers in Illinois have been bullied into a corner,” said Larry Keane, NSSF senior V.P. and general counsel. “With the birth of the ILAFR, retailers in the Land of Lincoln will now have an opportunity to more effectively combat anti-gun entities seeking to legislate or regulate them out of existence.” Illinois is one of many states that have organized a state association with NAFR. On a national level, NAFR provides dealers with a unified voice in Washington, D.C., on regulatory and legislative affairs that impact their business. For more information on NAFR, visit www.nafr.org. I Illinois Gun Dealers Form Alliance n addition to the massive SHOT Show, there are many other trade shows conducted in the early part of the year, along with the NASGW event in November. Unique among them is RSR Group’s virtual trade show. In mid-January, RSR held its seventh “E-Show: New Year Expo” and reports “record dealer attendance.” Instead of those “miles of aisles,” dealers attend the E-Show via their computers, visiting “virtual booths,” entering giveaways and placing orders online 24 hours a day. “A retailer doesn’t have to leave their store and can sit at home in his or her bathrobe and fuzzy slippers and attend our show via the Internet,” said Bob Steger, RSR Group president and CEO. “I think the show concept is an industry hot button right now. Everybody has an opinion on this subject and I think it would make a good story.” We agree and are developing a story on RSR’s virtual trade show concept. What is your opinion on such shows? E-mail me your thoughts: russ@shootingindustry.com. For more information on RSR group, visit www.rsrgroup.com. RSR Pioneers Virtual Trade Show E-mail the Editor russ@shootingindustry.com www.shootingindustry.com e’ve promoted the new report “Hunting and Fishing: Bright Stars of the American Economy” several times in SI, and for good reason. The numbers in the report, presented by state, carry political clout, which is invaluable, especially during an election year. Say you’re in Maryland, a state rife with anti-hunting, anti-gun legislators. Do you think letting your political representatives know that hunters spend $265 million annually in the state would get their attention? That would be a “yes.” The report by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation is packed with such data, and more, on each state. It’s easy to download from the foundation’s Web site, www.sportsmenslink.org, and the NSSF’s Web site, www.nssf.org. Download the information and make sure you get it to your local, regional and state legislators, along with the media. 9 W Economic Impact — Get Their Attention MARCH 2008 45