Gun shows, a diffrent world

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A different world is a given...but where else you gonna get a big bag of Jerkey at that kind of price?

Hadn't been in a while, word is the ice cream is better...and they had some great summer sausage at the last show. I go for the food , entertainment, and to make sure my gunsmith takes his BP meds...he only there to find some old part for something he has been requested to restore.
 
Chilicothe Mo. had is't first gun show last weekend. Friday saturday and sunday affair. Went two days. Very little in the way of milsurp rifles. Covered the spectrum in every other reguard. had some really nice high end rifles. Looked at a Wesley Richards 450/400 double for 24K. Nice equipment and good people. They are going to have another next year.
 
My show I go to has some winners. Oh man.

But the majority of the folks are just fine.
 
A few weeks back, I went to a show in Souix Falls SD. There were some interesting people, but there were also a lot of unusual firearms. I saw a guy walking around with a Krinkov and another guy trying to sell a volley rifle (12 bores in the barrel or something like that). I also saw two Johnson rifles (competed with the Garand during that time), and more milsurp than I could shake a stick at. I am still kicking myself, because I could have purchased two Weaver K6's with dual horizontal crosshairs for $80.00 each. I could have used both of them.

Ryan
 
'round here many of the "shops" buy a table at the gun shows.I love the shows,always thought the dudes in costum were just part of the show!
For the last couple of years,the anti's have been makin' a BIG stink about gun shows,but in the last year,the number of shows have doubled,and not one complaint from the anti's.Anyone else notice this?
 
Daniel Flory:
I don't find the anachronisms strange (even if they get historical details incorrect)...but rather the people that are so fat they are barely mobile. Heart disease will get these people before the UN ever will...yet they worry and rant about the UN.
So true, so true...

Sisco:

That was one of the funniest things I've read in a long while. Thank you for the laughs.
 
I've seen historical re-enactors at a number of gunshows I've been at -- American, British, and German, including American Civil and Revolutionary War.

I think it adds a neat flavor to the show.

As for the Colt 1911, Colt supplied a few thousand 1911s chambered in .455 Webley Automatic to the British during WW I.
 
Sisco...

how is it that you live in Kansas, I live in Indiana, but the same people come to both our shows???:)

this is kinda funny, 'cause I was at one of the local shops today talking to the owners, who also happen to be friends

they were commenting about the buyers...pretty much the same way the buyers here comment about the dealers

I know one thing...I'd hate to put up with me at a gun show
 
I go to the shows in Dallas, Houston and Tulsa. I don't dress up like that but don't mind it if someone else does. Sometimes I think it is pretty interesting.
Jim Hall
 
One thing that is very distasteful about many gun shows is the persistent presence of Nazi regalia salesmen. It doesn't exactly portray gun buyers or sellers as sophisticated, tolerant people when every freakin' gun show features a few of these.

Bad PR guilt-by-association.
 
a guy dressed in a WWI British uniform....

I suppose you would not understand some people in a band playing as if they were from London in 1966 wearing the costumes of the day and playing the current hit tunes?

How bout the play "Phantom of the Opera", would you possibly fall for that?
 
It doesn't exactly portray gun buyers or sellers as sophisticated, tolerant people...


Mr. Bahadur, perhaps we would appear more sophisticated and tolerant if we hung their bodies from the rafters. Before you accuse somebody of being intolerant. look the term up in a dictionary before you open your intolerant mouth. When you don't, you are showing your level of sophistication and to be honest with you, I trust people at gun shows long before I trust a self-righteous divisionist.:barf:
 
Buckshot:
Before you accuse somebody of being intolerant. look the term up in a dictionary before you open your intolerant mouth.
Having a reading comprehension problem, are we? Let's try this again. I accused not. What I wrote:
It doesn't exactly portray gun buyers or sellers as sophisticated, tolerant people...

Bad PR guilt-by-association.
The key operative words there are "portray" and "PR." I frankly do not care if people want to sell Nazi regalia, hot dogs, high-priced guns or Mein Kampf at any venue so long as the merchandise is legal. I buy what I choose to buy and do not pay attention to the rest. However, it does give a bad impression of these events when they persistently show Nazi regalia. Let's put it this way: we often tell others that a gun is (or should be) like any other merchandise (say, like cars, boats or power tools). Yet, when you walk into a car show after car show, do you persistently see a Nazi regalia seller or two?
When you don't, you are showing your level of sophistication and to be honest with you, I trust people at gun shows long before I trust a self-righteous divisionist.
I don't "trust" people at gunshows at all, self-righteous divisionist or not. It has nothing to do with gunshows, and everything to do with Caveat Emptor.
 
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Bahadur
"the persistent presence of nazi regalia salesman. ....every freakin' gun show features a few of these.
Ddddiiiidddd yyyou SSSStuUUUTTTerrrr? Somebody has trouble getting along with other kids on the playground. These salesmen have payed for their slot and are selling legal merchandise. If you see otherwise, turn them in. I'll help you. Other than fat people, you seem to have a problem with the nazi component. I too have a problem with nazi's. But i refuse to become a nazi to defeat a nazi. Yes I have owned one Walther with nazi markings and I did buy it from a man on the show circuit. Didn"t like the looks of the gun but once I shot it I had to have it. I have since owned two more Walthers (without the markings) and a HK 91. Am I an "undesirable" because of my choise of weapons? During WWII, weapons technology advanced exponentialy. The German weapons led the way. Bad timing and bad causes led to their defeat. But the tech is still there. My problem is that you air dirty laundry in public. If you don't like something about others, stay away. The antis have enough help. Oh, no I don"t see regalia at auto shows, but have you checked out the new BMW's? WOW. Gotta have one.:uhoh:
 
Buckshot:
Ddddiiiidddd yyyou SSSStuUUUTTTerrrr? Somebody has trouble getting along with other kids on the playground.
Read the first sentence there and speak for yourself.
Am I an "undesirable" because of my choise of weapons?
Such an accusation was neither implied nor stated specifically. I don't have a problem with people buying German guns.
During WWII, weapons technology advanced exponentialy. The German weapons led the way. Bad timing and bad causes led to their defeat. But the tech is still there.
While I am, by training, an expert in German military operations during the '30s and '40s and would love to argue with your simplistic statements, let us stick to the point, not history lessons.
My problem is that you air dirty laundry in public. If you don't like something about others, stay away.
Using the same logic, shouldn't you stay away from my post?
The antis have enough help.
Not from me. Some in the "gun movement" do it just fine without my help to discredit themselves. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
Oh, no I don"t see regalia at auto shows, but have you checked out the new BMW's? WOW. Gotta have one.
A "new BMW" made in Germany today has absolutely NO Nazi connotation. Your analogy is thus invalid. When a gunshow after gunshow has Nazi/SS regalia sellers (and buyers), it DOES paint the shows - and gun buyers - in a negative light to many people, because an association forms in the minds of people, i.e. gunshows = Nazi stuff.

Think about it. If every auto show you attended featured a Nazi regalia seller or two, wouldn't you begin to feel a bit odd about the auto shows and at least wonder what connection there might be between car people and Nazi regalia?
 
I go to 6-10 a year. I love gun shows. I hope more of you stop going! It gives me a better chance at the GOOD buys. Yes, I did say good buys. Going to a show every couple years or so, and not finding something you like, doesn't mean good deals aren't available. On second thought, you people are right, why bother?
 
Just Great--

I'm glad we're all so tolerant of those that share our interests--

Don't want any fat guys representing us--:rolleyes:
 
EJ:
I'm glad we're all so tolerant of those that share our interests--

Don't want any fat guys representing us--
Are you equating Nazi stuff with being overweight?

I'm personally tolerant of a lot of things, but that does not mean I don't point out things that hurt our collective cause.

Furthermore, just because someone believes in the Second Amendment ("share our interests") does NOT mean that I should embrace him blindly. He could be, for example, a believer in both the Second Amendment and Neo-Nazism.

We have to pick our "friends" in the movement, not just about anyone who claims to be a friend of the 2nd Amendment.

Buckshot:

If you want to discuss the difference between Auftragstaktik vs. Befehlstaktik, feel free to drop me a PM.
 
Bahadur- I think he's referring to my post about the morbidly obese who are paranoid of the U.N.

I would completely agree with you BTW in your sentiments about choosing friends wisely.
 
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