A gun show in DC? I mean, isn't this like Victoria's Secret in Saudia Arabia? What's the point? You can't buy anything.
Actually, Jimbo, having been in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for a couple of months on business, I can tell you that, not only do they
have Vicky's in SA, but it does rather a brisk business, too.[0]
I was there from about 9:15 AM to about 2 PM. Met THR members Bubbles and Cliff (they recognized my TFL Alumni shirt). It was good to put some faces to names.
I came this >< close to buying a new Beretta Storm to play with. I even went through the NICS check before my conscience reacquainted me with the fact that right now I need the money more than I need a new pistol-caliber carbine to play with. <sigh> Sometimes it sucks to have a conscience.
I did buy some airsoft toys to practice with, though.[1]
Having only been to the Old Dominion gun shows, I was impressed with the size of this one.
One vendor sort of annoyed me, however. He was in the middle-left, toward the back, and he had some very odd-looking HK piece up on display. He was talking about how it held 50 rounds in a top magazine, could do and this and that and the other. I was curious, so I asked if I could see it. And he said (sort of sneered, actually), "No. It's law-enforcement
only." Mostly it was his tone that put me off. If he'd said it in a nice way, I'd not have minded. So my irrepressible wife said, "If no one can look at it, why do you have it up there?", and he responded, "Because I can, and chicks dig me."
Anyone else run into that guy?
Overall, a good show. I'm looking forward to the next one. Maybe I can justify that Storm to my conscience by then...
-BP
[0] I could tell you my "How I accidentally discovered what some of the women wear under the habaya" story, but Art's Grammaw would probably take exception.
[1] Which turned out to be a good thing; last night my wife was playing with the Airsoft Beretta 92, and got all pouty when I said we ought to put it away and eat dinner. She wanted to keep shooting. So we kept shooting, of course. Now she wants me to take her to the
real range tonight.