PMCI April 2018 | Page 6

pmcimagazine.com ago, we exchange business cards and stayed in touch. Through both our professional growth as firearms instructors with our perspective businesses, I have had the good fortune to become close friends with Shaun. Despite the thousands of people who attend Industry Day at the Range each year, Shaun and his team always treat our crew like royalty. SHOW DOORS OPEN Tuesday morning was the official opening of the show floor at the Sands Convention Center. For most attendees, this is the big day. Their SHOT SHOW experience has begun. As the wall to wall wave of crowds rolled through the doors of the multiple show floor areas distributed among 5 different levels. Each of the next four days would be spent making new contacts with vendor’s media representatives and checking out the products we would be interested in covering throughout the year here in the pages of PMCI Magazine. One of our first stops was with our friends at Torrent Suppressors. This new company has hit the ground running with their modestly priced, high performance suppressors for the working men and women. As a bit of PMCI insider intel, we have already been working with Torrent’s .30 cal suppressor in both the .300 BLK and 6.5 Creedmoor platforms. All I can report at this time is to look for Torrent Suppressors to be BIG this year. These cans work and work well for their price points. As we move forward with the next two caliber suppressors we are expecting soon, we hope to give you the full run down this summer. Following the crowds over to Glock’s booth found their newly released Glock G19X as well as the G26 and G34 9mm additions to the already very popular Gen 5 series. These pistols were generating a lot of fanfare, while I and I alone on the team knew we already had two of them sitting in the gun safe at home ready for review. Since returning from the Shot Show, our writers have spent some valuable time on the 6