Las Vegas • Nearly 40 Utah companies selling everything from rifles to bullets to safes are here for the gun industry’s massive SHOT trade show, gathering more attention than usual because it’s taking place just a couple miles from where a lone gunman killed 58 concert-goers in October.
There was little — if any talk — among exhibitors on Tuesday’s opening day of the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Stephen Paddock also injured 851 people in the massacre.
SHOT Show has been held for 40 years, half that time in Las Vegas, and this year’s gathering was scheduled well before the attack last fall.