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The British Pavilion |
The most common language heard at the
SHOT Show is
Upland Southern English, followed by German.
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German firms form the largest national cluster. |
Apparently to succeed in the firearms industry, it is helpful to sound like you come from Arkansas — or
Arnsberg.
I have also overheard several varieties of Spanish,
e.g., terse Argentinian around the
Bersa booth — plus Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, Arabic, and some that I could not be sure of (Hindi?).
German, Italian, and British firms are clustered in national pavilions, with Germany's being the largest.
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The Italian pavilion is the place to go for reproductions of every 19th-century gun. |
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There are enough Turkish firearms firms to fill a pavilion too, although the man whom I spoke to at the
Trabzon booth seemed cool to the idea. We prefer to be spread out, he said.
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