PMCI June 2020 | Page 44

pmcimagazine.com AMERICAN SPEEDLOADERS AMERICAN SPEEDLOADERS Every year, the PMCI crew spends a week together in Las Vegas, Nevada, amongst some of the biggest names in the firearms market from around the world at the “Industry Only” vendors event known as SHOT SHOW. Our mission is to find those handfuls of genuinely innovative products that set themselves apart from the competition. One of the best places to find these new up and coming products was in this year’s show’s new vendor’s area. It was here the team discovered what may be one of the hottest new items to hit the magazine loading industry. The company was named American Speedloader. As I have seen throughout my former law enforcement career and in many of the classes my firearms training group has taught over the years, shooters often have a hard time loading magazines for their semi-auto handguns. Whether it is due to stiff springs in a new magazine, physical disabilities, or the lack of applied muscle groups, issues with loading rounds into their pistol magazines can often detract shooters from wanting to train regularly. This problem has been more evident than anywhere else I have personally found through volunteer work with the national notfor-profit, The Well Armed Woman Shooting Chapters (TWAW) org., along with my wife, Candace. With her role as the Florida State Leader, Candace and I have access to working with over 800 ladies ranging in ages 18 – 80 years old. Missing digitals, arthritis, lupus, and even broken fingers, we work with shooters with all sorts of limitations that have hindered students from performing an already taxing process. These issues should not discourage 44