SHOT Show year 3 is now officially in the books for Bulletn. Our crew spent five full days and put in about 40 miles of walking to scour the SHOT Show 2025 show floor, looking for the most important information we could find relevant to the training community.

Let’s face it, there is so much noise and clutter in the gun industry. There are literally thousands of products created each year to fit an over-emphasized, or sometimes just straight-up fabricated, ‘need’. We can spend the time and focus on some of the more ridiculous items (such as a holster that goes in your car’s cupholder, or a pistol that only loads by top-feeding stripper clips), but that can perhaps be discussed another time.

Instead, we hope to give you what we think was THE MOST important information relevant to the people who focus on and value training.

While it’s all too true that “gear talk” can be too much of a focus within training circles, there is a flip side to that coin. Gear can enhance the training journey. Sometimes, a company offers a product that can help a student progress faster, a trainer to teach concepts more effectively, or