We had one in town. Same guy has been doing gun shows here for decades, and every time I go, the same vendors are there, usually with the same over-priced goods. some of those goods are guns and ammo. hey, it IS a gun show, so you’d expect to see guns and ammo. and knives. And okay, hunting stuff. And enough camo and cordura to satisfy mall ninjas for at least the next three months.
I didn’t buy a gun at the show. i went with a specific ‘need’ in mind, a straight-stock AR-15. Apparently I missed the memo that says that all .223’s are now required to have short barrels, collapsing stocks and cumulative amounts of Pickatinny rails measured in multiple feet, I guess so that those mall ninjas can mount flashlights and bottle openers and such to give the appropriately tactical look.
I did posit the question to my favorite dealer, though, and he told me that he had the rifle I was looking for, but he’d left it at his shop, because, in his words, “people would pick it up and say it was too heavy.” So I will visit his shop during the week.
There is, however, an up side to small-town gunshows, and that is that I run into a lot of people I know. Today was no different.
Call it a good day.
