SHOT Show aims for safety When the products on display are guns, bullets, bows and arrows, security has to be on target. Show involves extensive precautions to ensure that no weapons are stolen and no one is injured. Packages with those labels go to a secure warehouse, not the contractor's warehouse. At move in, when those packages are trucked to the convention center, they are taken to a secure lock-up rather than the exhibitor's booth. All weapons on display are deactivated.
Every gun is inspected and tagged to assure people that it's been deactivated.
Because it's so difficult to deactivate BB guns, they aren't allowed in the show. There are also strict rules for screening who and what goes in and out of the show. Everyone who doesn't have either an exhibitor's or attendee's badge, including catering staff and janitorial staff, must wear wristbands that are color-coded by day. The material is destroyed when the wristband is removed, so it's impossible for one person to give his wristband to another. All attendees must prove their relationship to the industry.