SHRINK IT AND PINK IT: SOME OFFERINGS FOR THE LADIES AT THE NRA EXHIBIT HALL: “Every year I wander around looking at the new products and take note of the items available for the ladies,” Liz Sheld writes at PJM in a photo-laden post. “I’m not sure why the industry thinks that if it makes something pink, it will sell to the women folk. Perhaps it’s cheaper than manufacturing a gun with a grip for a smaller hand or a shotgun with a stock that has a length of pull shorter than 14 1/2 inches. Here I’ve collected some of the pinkier offerings I am putting in my pink firearms Hall of Shame.”

Last weekend, my wife and I visited the (slightly more modest) gun show in the Glen Rose, TX civic center, sponsored by Cleburne-based Whipp Farm Productions. There were plenty of pink pistols and, perhaps in honor of the late Prince, a few purple rifles as well. The local Marine Corps League was raffling off a rather more substantial looking firearm; though when they asked for a phone number, they told Nina they just use that as an excuse to score phone numbers off girls…

Whatever your gender or color preferences, you’ll have lots of fun discussing (and using) the latest firearms technology at Bullets & Bourbon at neighboring Rough Creek Lodge in December. Click here for registration details!