StantonCree
Watch your beer
- Jan 23, 2011
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I’ve never been to a gun show where i didn’t walk into a protein fart cloud.
I grew up in the midwest and remember a few things about those guns shows:
1 - They had guns, guns parts and ammo, that is all
2 - There were NOT (probably because of the times) a bunch of survival booths full of everything from seeds to survival bracelets
3 - You could actually get good to exceptional deals
What I have seen from gun shows here:
1 - Overpriced EVERYTHING. I can get better quality just about everything for a far better price online.
2 - Little to no actual variety (unless your count 500+ versions of an AR or glock)
3 - Loads of non-shooting related vendors. I don't need your hemp clad, home chicken breeding, survival purse. This is supposed to be a gun show you vegetable powered nut job.
I grew up in the midwest and remember a few things about those guns shows:
1 - They had guns, guns parts and ammo, that is all
2 - There were NOT (probably because of the times) a bunch of survival booths full of everything from seeds to survival bracelets
3 - You could actually get good to exceptional deals
What I have seen from gun shows here:
1 - Overpriced EVERYTHING. I can get better quality just about everything for a far better price online.
2 - Little to no actual variety (unless you count 500+ versions of an AR or glock)
3 - Loads of non-shooting related vendors. I don't need your hemp clad, home chicken breeding, survival purse. This is supposed to be a gun show you vegetable powered nut job.
I was surprised at the Fred Co show when I spotted what seemed to be a lady in the corner cleaning out people's ears? Maybe I have that wrong, but there was a guy on a stool and she sure seemed to be going ISIS in his ear! And there was the beef jerky lady too. Not sure what show I was at where jerky first appeared but that poor lady seemed like she was dreading each passing minute until the show ended.
The ear cleaning may have been in preparation for cast in place silicone ear plugs. I had a set done years ago at Showplace Arena in PG Co (IIRC).
They were great until I misplaced them.
All I mostly see are people hungry to get their first human kill.
That was a great movieSo you see people who wanna see dead people?
That was a great movie
Prior to and during the Obama administration the number of attendees at gun shows went up exponentially. One of the results has been a dramatic increase in the number of shows. The Chantilly show as an example went from a couple of shows to seven a year. The Oaks show in Pa has four shows a year.
Between the massive spending that was done during the prior administration, less fear of adverse regulation, more shows to go to, among other things, attendance is down at all the shows.