Weirdest thing about shows is the age dichotomy. You've got the Punk Kids category (proudly representing!) and then the Old Guys.
Unfortunately, now that I'm middle twenties and have absorbed so much information since taking up this hobby, I no longer can gull the Old Guys into pontificating, or tolerate when they pontificate and are wrong or don't know as much as I do, plus now that I'm not young-and-innocent-looking, people get suspicious when I stay quiet or play dumb.
It's kinda taken a good bit of the fun outta shows and such. Never shoot, never have time. Took to it as a complicated but interesting collecting-memorizing-studying hobby, with genealogies and mechanics all rolled into one big fascinating spaghetti.
Otherwise, twenty-six, lots and lots (and for those of you who know me by reputation, that's quite a lot) of guns, got in at eighteen from a non-gun family with a christmas Winchester 1300 Camp Defender for barn vermin, snowballed when I found out I could buy real WW2 guns, and then because of no social life, a good paycheck, and a knack for finding deals, kinda went overboard.
I actually ebayed bayonets, gunparts, and militaria as a parttime self-employment last year when I was otherwise unemployed. The lore I'd learned as a hobby literally kept me afloat for awhile.
RKBA community 2.0, of which I feel like a second-generation member, fully raised in the matured environment pioneered by "adults" only a few years before, is going to be far more viral and far more open than the old half-fudd-half-whispered closed society of gunshows, fudds, and highpower shooters. Yes, people had guns for deer, for plinking, went to ranges, and taught newbs, but that invisible barrier of entry involving who to ask and sheepish newbie questions and being unable to gauge the group norm (except by the camo-clad paramilitary survivalist stereotypes presented by media and societal preconceptions) has been blasted away by The Internet, and enabling newbs to integrate and congregate so much more easily and effectively than was previously possible it's uncanny.
