{"id":1413,"date":"2015-02-25T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/02\/25\/a-french-view-of-shot-show\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:12","slug":"a-french-view-of-shot-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"A French View Of The SHOT Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10894,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.defense.gouv.fr\\\/ema\\\/sitta\\\/a-la-une\\\/shotshow-2015\\\/article-shotshow-2015&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.defense.gouv.fr\\\/ema\\\/sitta\\\/a-la-une\\\/shotshow-2015\\\/article-shotshow-2015&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI stumbled across a report on the recent SHOT Show this evening in a rather interesting and unusual spot: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/ema\/sitta\/a-la-une\/shotshow-2015\/article-shotshow-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the official government website of France&#8217;s Minist\u00e8re de la D\u00e9fense<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t surprise me that the French military sent representatives to the SHOT Show. It does surprise me a bit that they&#8217;d report on it on their official website given that France is rather parochial about their military arms.<\/p>\n<p>From the intro:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>SHOTSHOW 2015<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Le salon am\u00e9ricain SHOT SHOW 2015, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence dans le domaine des armes de petit calibre, s&#8217;est d\u00e9roul\u00e9 au SANDS EXPO de Las Vegas. Cette \u00e9dition a permis d\u2019observer un grand nombre de nouveaut\u00e9s et toujours plus d\u2019innovations. Outre la pr\u00e9sence naturelle et obligatoire des plus grands fabricants am\u00e9ricains (Remington, Colt Firearms, Ruger, KAC, Mossberg, Smith &amp; Wesson, LMT, LWRC, Troy, Barrett, DSA&#8230;), le salon affirme son caract\u00e8re international au travers de pays comme l\u2019Allemagne, la Grande Bretagne, la Suisse, la Belgique, le Canada, la Turquie, l\u2019Italie, la Pologne, la Bulgarie, la R\u00e9publique Tch\u00e8que, la Russie, la Serbie, l\u2019Afrique du Sud, les EAU ou encore les Philippines. Il faut noter cette ann\u00e9e que la firme SIG SAUER a permis d\u2019observer un grand nombre de mat\u00e9riels en d\u00e9monstration dynamique.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given I haven&#8217;t taken French since grammar school, I had to rely upon Google Translate to do the translation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The American lounge SHOT SHOW 2015, considered the benchmark in the field of small arms, took place at SANDS EXPO Las Vegas. This edition has allowed to observe a large number of new and ever more innovation. Besides the natural and obligatory presence of the largest US manufacturers (Remington, Colt Firearms, Ruger, KAC, Mossberg, Smith &amp; Wesson, LMT, LWRC, Troy, Barrett, DSA &#8230;), the show confirms its international character through countries such as Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, UAE or the Philippines. It should be noted this year that the firm SIG SAUER allowed to observe a large number of hardware dynamic demonstration<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scrolling through the article and looking at the pictures it is interesting to see what caught their reporter&#8217;s eye. I&#8217;m not surprised to see the Sig MCX SBR, the FNS 9 Compact, or the HK VP9 covered. I&#8217;m not even surprised to see the less than lethal munitions covered or interest in the .300 Blackout cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>What did surprise me were pictures of the Serbu Shorty 12 ga. shotgun and the Coonan 1911 Compact in .357 Magnum. I guess they were considered just odd enough to catch the eye of the French. I shouldn&#8217;t forget that the French Army is equipped with the FAMAS as their main rifle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across a report on the recent SHOT Show this evening in a rather interesting and unusual spot:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2325,1575,2326],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2015-shot-show","tag-france","tag-unusual-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}