DC Area Gun Owners!!! Gun Show at Dulles Expo Center!

Are you gonna go!?

  • Sounds Great! I'll be there!

    Votes: 21 58.3%

  • I don't wanna go.

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • I can't make it.

    Votes: 2 5.6%

  • I don't live in the DC Area. And I'm too lazy to fly there. (KIDDING)

    Votes: 12 33.3%
  • Total voters
    36
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I saw it on a commercial on Fox News Channel. I really want to go! I hope I'm not working. Those two days are Saturday and Sunday. It's looking to be fun! Maybe I'll see some of you and not realize.

Whoah... meeting people in *gasp* REAL LIFE? SOUNDS SCARY! :what: :rolleyes: :D

Maybe I can find some span cans of ammo for my AK! :evil:
 
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Oh.... I thought you waid a gun was SHOT at the expo center, not that there was a gun SHOW at the center.... Oops!
 
Where have you been? We've been talking about this for months. :D

I'll be there. It'll be nice to have a large show here rather than the crappy little ones scattered all about (Leesburg, Bealton, Dale City, etc).

Chris
 
I edited the title, hopefully it fixes.

Can you all give me more info on this, though? Like what would be the hours that it's open. (If I have to work, I could go early or late. And on both days!)

It'll be my first gun show. I'm so excited!
 
Is Dulles in DC or Virginia?

If it's in DC how can you buy a gun there? And if you're a DC resident how can you have a gun there?

I must confess, I am confussed. I thought guns were illegal in DC.

Wayne
 
Dulles is in Virginia. It's one of the airports that service the Northern Va/Md/DC region. It's about 25 miles from DC (Reagon National is less than 5 miles I think and Baltimore-Washington is about 50-60 miles from DC).

Guns are perfectly legal in Virginia, hence our lower crime rate compared to DC. :D

Roc_Kor (is that anything like the Locnar from Heavy Metal?), the gunshows I've been to are typically open from 9am-5pm. Get it out of your system early and make a few laps around the show before you start shopping. Dunno about everyone else, but I usually feel like a kid in a candy store at these shows. :D


Chris
 
I'll be there. I'm going to try to get there early-ish to see if I can beat the crowds. I'm going with my wife and with a friend who is a GlockTalk-er (who has yet to see the light and move over here). I'll be the long-haired guy in black jeans, black engineer boots, and a TFL Alumnus shirt on. Stop me and say Hi!

-BP
 
Wouldn't miss it for the world!

Already printed out several coupons. I'll be there with my two sons (and a few signed copies of C&R in case an enfield or two decides to follow me home). Rumor has it that Mrsbigjoegood1 may even bless us with her presence! Hope to get a great deal on a nice shottie too!
 
Damnit, I forgot all about this!!!

Okay, I'll probably be there today, towards the afternoon. Mid-20's caucasian male, brown hair needing a trim, goatee, glasses, white Brown vs. Board of Education t-shirt, red and black messenger bag. If you see me, stop and say hi!

- Chris
 
hey guys, it was a great show! didn't buy anything, but i did see a really good deal. against the wall on the right side about half way inbetween the front and back, a guy with some WASR-10's had a package deal.....the rifle with a couple 30 rd mags, a couple 40 rd mags, a 75 rd drum, and 100 rds of ammo for $465. i wanted to trade my savage and some cash for it, but he didn't take it. oh well! but anyway, if you haven't been it was a good show. didn't see any MOLON LABE shirts or anything, but then again i was too busy staring at the guns!

OH! i saw 2 P-90's and....... A SIG 552 COMMANDO!!!!! that was awesome! i kept drooling and drooling.....my girlfriend had to drag me out of there.
 
I was at the show on Saturday (quite a drive from Virginia Beach). It was a good show. The great majority of the vendors there I recognized from the C&E shows in Richmond and the SGK shows in Hampton. There were a lot of over-priced Garands and Springfields and the like which a lot of people seemed to be buying (CMP should've had a booth).

Early Saturday the show was very, very crowded (and hot). I bought two handguns (Ruger SP-101 spurless and a Bersa 22), a knife, and some incidentals. My background check on the handguns took about 2 hours to go through! The state police had some laptops on site to do NICS checks, but they became so overloaded I noticed most vendors calling the checks in with cellphones.

There weren't enough handgun vendors there.

There were a few tables (Class IIs, I presume) with some very neat machineguns -- but frankly, if it ain't transferrable (or at least pre-sample) -- I don't want to see it :cuss:

There were a lot of police officers on site, including uniformed local police as well as some highly tactical state police in olive drap uniforms with thigh holsters :rolleyes: Whatever happened to the Smokey the Bear hat? Why do these guys think they have to dress like a Central American paramilitary revolutionary force?

As a gun show it was good, but not really too much better than the other C&E shows. I think it was significant as a political statement -- all the thousands of people who waited in line and payed money was a powerful message. There were quite a few political booths there, too; more than I've seen at any other show. Supporters of Cucinelli, Black, McDonnell, GWB, etc. all had booths.
 
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