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I belong to the shooting club which sponsors the gun shows in our town, so naturally I go. I go mostly to see what kind of prices people are putting on their firearms and to possibly find a rare under priced article I may be interested in. I used to always buy a table and bring my own display, but I stopped doing that because in our state we are required by law to do a background check on anyone who wants to buy a firearm and that costs money and takes time. If I sell a firearm on my own without being at a gun show, I don't have to do that, I can just sell it. I usually have an ad running in a local online business like Craigslist, listing guns for sale. I also buy and sell on two different auction sites. Gun shows are an interesting place to visit, but you have to really know guns if you expect to get a good deal. As a seller at a gun show I don't mind people asking questions about guns, I don't mind if they ask to pickup a gun and look at it, but I do mind the person whose appearance suggests they can barely afford to pay the entrance fee, and then picks up a gun and works the action to impress their friends.
Pay for parking, pay to get in the door. Inside, it's lots of cheap homemade "jewelry", velvet paintings, all kinds of Nazi crap, and overpriced rusty military surplus stuff.
Pay for parking, pay to get in the door. Inside, it's lots of cheap homemade "jewelry", velvet paintings, all kinds of Nazi crap, and overpriced rusty military surplus stuff.
The gun show I attended this weekend produced three samples that a fellow board member could not locate. It also produced 4 of my new Glock G-41 .45 acps for which my thread was about. I also saw a brand new FN M4 and a whole bunch of rare and unusual things. Benchmade, HK and Microtech autos were there WELL below any LE/Military Active/ Veterans discounts as well.
This was a season ending show and the last until fall, so it was even a bit smaller than normal. Plain and simple, gun shows still rock in May 2014.
Here in the once-great state of NY, there are few options other than gun shows. I can remember dozens of gun dealers when I first got my permit in the 70s--now there are fewer than 5 thanks to onerous restrictions and harassment from the feds.
And, oh, BTW--the Brady Center has filed a suit against Gander Mountain on behalf of the family of the Webster firefighters who were killed over a year ago. A straw purchase was made there, that woman was just sentenced, and the Brady Center claims that the clerks failed to ask questions regarding the purchaser's familiarity with the gun being purchased () and what she was going to do with it ().
Gander Mountain has said that they will vigorously defend themselves, but make no mistake people--this is going to be a major expense and no one's going to convince me that the Brady Center's agenda isn't to get all gun retailers to consider it too expensive to sell firearms.
of course I go, I just refuse to talk to anyone from f-troop, and if someone starts to ask questions, I ask them to ID themselves, especially if they ask any kind of legal questions.
the current price of admission & parking makes gun shows not worth it anymore
it seems they charge the most they think people will pay to get in? costs more than going out to a movie and lunch and thats just so you can look at their over priced junk
the gun show is kind of like a dumping ground where people try to sell their junk and dont tell you something is wrong with it, like a guy selling a handgun with a cracked slide and trying to conceal it with a price sticker
I like to go every few years to look at the stuff and mostly to look at the people. Around here, many guys wear their camoflauge to the gun show - I find that very odd but it amuses me.
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