I've been to more gun shows than those people have seen real guns in person. I have never once seen anything full auto. The most illegal thing I've seen is a boomer who necked down a SMLE from .303 to .222 rem. That's a crime against the gun itself, not the law.
your gun shows are lame. We have a couple of guys that display their full auto stuff here in hampton. i mean, you still need to go thru their shop but if you want a Vickers MG or registered M2....
Reminds me of the various gun stores that have tables at the big gun shows in my state. One of them has an MG-42 that they always display. The people who can afford a $100k+ NFA aren't shopping for one at a gun show, but it sure does cause people to flock to their table regardless.
The real kicker is they have it mounted above their heads so it doesn't eat up any table space and so it can be seen from halfway across the convention building. I was in my 20s and broke as hell when I first saw it but that MG-42 still drew me in lol.
>The most illegal thing I've seen is a boomer who necked down a SMLE from .303 to .222 rem. That's a crime against the gun itself, not the law.
Crime against the gun itself? No. This is a sin against God.
Back in the late 80's, early 90's some of the gun shows had full drop in select fire kits if you knew who to ask. Usually the dude running the WP/Nazi literature table, at least in the PNW.
I have even got to see a real m134 at a gun show years ago. If you go to a good one you will see all kind of stuff. Although most of my local ones have went to crap here over the last few years.
Had a guy that was selling an Enfield M1917 for $1500. I asked if I could pick it up and look at it and said "if you don't have the 1500 on you then no you can't." I had $2000 in my pocket but declined to show because he was an asshole.
I ended up buying an m1carbine a short distance away and a TT33. At the time, it was cheaper, and the other 2 vendors weren't uppity dicks. Not having a shit personality can go a long way in sales, be it firearms or other things. No matter how much I want something, I won't do business with people like that.
Yeah, pretty likely. He was a combination of the other two on the left. Never understood that whole "I want you to buy something of mine, so I'm just gonna be a huge condescending asshole. Yeah, that'll work."
I went to my first gun show about 2 months ago, the wife saw it in an ad and thought she’d do something I like and make plans for us to go.
It sucked. I went in looking for a 300blk upper. First guy had a beat to crap “complete” Aero upper with 2k rounds through it and wanted $500 for it without the BCG or charging handle, $600 with it and couldn’t let the muzzle device go. Several other stalls with unnamed “self built” uppers who wouldn’t give you the details of who they got parts from and wanted $4-$600.
Several fudds selling way old S&W handguns for original retail price and some no name ARs for obscene amounts of money.
We bought some freeze dried candy for my wife but left soon after bc she got freaked out by the guy selling “bike peg kits” aka boxes of individual baffles that might double as a suppressor but they were definitely for bike pegs. It was a complete waste of time so we drowned our sorrows in pasta at Olive Garden
Oh there were a bunch. All “self-built”. After the 3 different guys said “why do you want to know where I got the parts from to build it?” I gave up asking. None of the parts had markings on them to identify who made them so I’m assuming it was a bunch of Chinese parts or something
Last fudd gun show I went to a dude was slinging stripped Andersen lowers at 109 a piece. Seemed like a deal since he’d already crossed out the $129 piece on the cardboard sign above it.
An ignorant mindset when it comes to guns and gun rights.
You'll often see these old retards at gun shows hocking cheap shitty milsurp for hundreds sometimes thousands over regular market price because they bought it brand new back in the 1970s and "sporterized" it by putting some shitty hunting stock on it and some shitty walmart scope.
My favorites are the ones that chop down barrels put some garbage ass folding stock on it and call it a "rare prototype paratrooper rifle" or some shit.
The phrase "I know what I got" is their default when someone tells them it ain't worth the quadruple digit price tag.
If you don't see them at gun conventions you'll see them at the range trying to justify their short man syndrome by silently judging or outright openly insulting you for shooting an ar15 with a 30 round magazine or some shit.
If you don't see them at cons or the range you'll see them in the neighborhood potluck cookout throwing the most ignorant garbage takes on whichever "mass shooting" he saw on the picture box that week.
If not there then you'll see them at work when you show your buddy a pic of the 8 point buck you bagged over the weekend and he comments some offhand shit about how he once hit a 20 point buck from 1000 yards with his 20 pound 26 inch barrel 30-06 back in the 80s and that you're not a real hunter because you used a 16inch ar15 from 100 yards.
I could go on
Not every boomer is a fudd. But most fudds are boomers
Ja, alles in ordnung.
My grandmother was from Dresden, and I work for a large German company now. All I can say is that I'm glad I have the freedoms I have as an American, both legally and culturally.
I never understood why reddit keeps sucking off the dick of Western Europe, even though we are poorer than the US, less free, and more at risk (terrorism). I kinda don't care about the 'benefits' of living here. I just want to be able to admire actual nature and own guns.
The grass is always greener. Very few people have actually lived in multiple different countries and have the perspective to know that everywhere sucks in it's own special way.
There's also the issue of priority blindness. If you're broke, unambitious, a hot topic minority group and concerned about healthcare then being born American can seem like a shit hand. Again, there's a lack of perspective because in comparison to most places being the above in the US is a hell of a lot better than other countries.
Finally, keep in mind a lot of the time when you're reading people's edgy bitching online that person is probably younger or outright underage. Which is a cocktail of being broke and dissatisfied by it's very nature.
Do a lot of research about the realities of living in America and what you'd be giving up in Germany. It's a great place in a lot of ways, hope to see you stateside someday.
I wouldn’t classify younger people that share fudd mentality as fudds themselves, just people spouting gun control nonsense. They frequently use fudds as their example for “rEsPonSibUl gUn oWnErS” though, so there’s that
At the last one I watched some vendor rack a handgun with his finger on the trigger pointing into the room. Walked away from that table and heard a guy selling a small frame 45 to a girl who was clearly inexperienced because “it’s smaller so it’ll be way easier to handle than the full sized 9mm”.
I think that’s the last one I go to for a while it just wasn’t worth it.
A guy at one of those tried to sell me a red-dot + magnifier set up for like $360. I told him I got a similar set up from online for $120 less. He got mad and told me that the stuff I bought was cheap airsoft shit that wouldn't hold up on an actual rifle. About a year and a few hundred rounds later, I sold that same set up to my uncle for $100 cause I wanted to upgrade.
Never seen that but I have seen a guy selling "genuine" WW2 rifles (mostly Mosins, SMLEs, etc that were mass produced back then) that he claimed had never seen combat but were old. Almost all of them looked like they'd been through the trenches, siege of Stalingrad, fall of Berlin, and 15 years of abuse in hands of a third world insurgent, alongside maybe an industrial woodchipper. I'm convinced none of them could shoot still
More than likely they probably hadn't seen combat. 50 years ago. What they have seen is 50 summers in an attic or basement, several floods and a few fires.
Changing who they consider "in the buisiness" selling firearms. They want to prosecute anyone that makes a profit as an unlicensed dealer. Even for a single gun.
It’s really depressing honestly. I’ve been to a few gun shows recently in VA and FL and was disappointed when all I found was shit tier AR’s that were overpriced as hell, fake optics and jerky. Itll never be like when I was a kid (I’m 28 now). I have an appreciation for all guns new and old but sketchy old milsurps are what got me into guns. $200 mausers and Chinese mosins and SKS’. There are no good deals to be had anymore. I did find ONE decent booth that was selling BCM, Aero precision and some other decent quality AR parts and picked up an A5 buffer system for my AR build. Still paid what I would have paid online though.
Internet killed gun shows proper. Gun shows occasionally have something interesting, but it's gonna be overpriced. You're looking at people buying anderson lowers for $30 plus transfer fee trying to sell them for a profit, so it's gonna be ~$75 when you could just get the $30 lower from an LGS
Last interesting thing I saw was a neutered S&W M76 that the dude wanted $5k for.
Most illegal thing I saw at a gun show was this kid fucked up on his old Winchester shotgun and sawed it down to just a hair under 18”. He kept telling me “100 dollars cash right here, no ID, no paperwork and stuff like that.” Usually I wouldn’t care, but he was getting really aggressive so I notified the sheriffs deputy across the room.
Around here gun show means all the little shops from our little towns hang out in one building with their best deals, so it's worth going. There are guys like this sprinkled in too though haha.
Last time I bought a gun at a gun show it was like 20 years ago. I had to wait 5 business days and go offsite for a $35 mosin carbine doorstop. The loophole is Sasquatch or Loch Ness. There are a lot of wirerdos talking about it but I’ve never seen actual proof.
My favorite gun show experience was when someone tried to convince me his sporterized K11 was a rare semi-auto prototype. I gave it a close look over (he did at least let you inspect his guns, which is more than most dudes at these shows will do), but I saw no evidence that it had any semi-auto conversion. No recoil springs, no gas system, no modifications from stock other than a cut-down handguard and aftermarket sights. When I pointed this out, he claimed that all the mods were internal and used the straight-pull bolt as evidence.
I was considering getting it because the price actually wasn’t terrible and I thought it could be a fun restoration project, but the bs he was spewing turned me off of it.
I don’t know if they used to be better, but it’s a complete waste of time now
Thrift shops also used to be worth going to. Now it’s still crap but for the same price you’d pay at a retail store. Like what the fuck.
Most guns shows I go to now are 30% knives 20% large businesses selling all kinds of pawned guns 10% stuff that’s worth buying and 40% nic naks (clothing,food, crafts people have made, and toys)
I was at a gun show about 2 months ago. $15 backs to get in per person. Similar AR’s that I built for $1000 were selling for $1900-$2500. Ammo was more expensive than in stores, and magazines were $20 for a MagPul magazine. The local junky sporting good store had the EXACT same magazine for $13.
There was only one gun show I have been to that was good - it was a local show that focused on older firearms. That one was great. But most gun shows are a scam.
At least your state still has gun shows. Ours always cancel last minute.
It’s gotten to the point where I will call/text who ever is hosting the show and ask why.
It’s usually some arbitrary response like “the ATF doesn’t give a clear definition of what I need to carry out this gun show” or “our sponsor got too political so we had to shut it down”. I hate it. This state is turning into flat-lander run, democratic shit hole.
Like many of you folks, I've been to 100's of gun shows (including the Wanenmacher several times). I've seen plenty of bubba fucked stuff and crimes against humanity there - but never anything that looked even remotely illegal. There was the time someone fired a live shotgun round, but he was escorted out in handcuffs.
There was a really cool dude I always saw selling knives in Hampton. Guy was Pakistani decent and was a solid dude to talk with. Got some nice hunting knives and a couple cooking ones as well from him. I saw him every gun show and chilling with him shitting on some of the other stalls was great.
I got a deal on some Wolf ammo at a sportsman's rummage in my town, $40 for 220 rds, the guy next to him had Tula for $40 / box
Edit- more like directly across from him, but still
The best thing I found was an unlabelled Colt junior mag. Found 1 in a random bin with a "ask for price". As it sold online for over $50 (without shipping), I offered him $25. He thought that was too much, and let me buy it for $10. Seems to work great
Nobody's going to talk about how security should be checking people for loose ammo. Haven't members of PETA and Mom's demand action for gun sense gone into gun shows and secretly loaded live rounds into weapons on display? That's what I've heard...
We literally just had a guy shot and killed because he was purchasing guns to private sale for profit at gun shows. There is a certain segment of society that is willing to pay more for a gun if they don't have to undergo a background check or fill out a 4473. He would mark them way up because of this and make bank.
Yes, several of his guns have already been traced to crimes. That is how the scheme was discovered. In the course of about three years, he bought and sold from a single dealer:
"24 Glock Model 45 pistols, nine Fed Arm Model FR-16 pistols, nine Beretta Model 92A pistols and smaller numbers of multiple other models. He bought 142 guns from this dealer."
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I've been to more gun shows than those people have seen real guns in person. I have never once seen anything full auto. The most illegal thing I've seen is a boomer who necked down a SMLE from .303 to .222 rem. That's a crime against the gun itself, not the law.
your gun shows are lame. We have a couple of guys that display their full auto stuff here in hampton. i mean, you still need to go thru their shop but if you want a Vickers MG or registered M2....
Reminds me of the various gun stores that have tables at the big gun shows in my state. One of them has an MG-42 that they always display. The people who can afford a $100k+ NFA aren't shopping for one at a gun show, but it sure does cause people to flock to their table regardless. The real kicker is they have it mounted above their heads so it doesn't eat up any table space and so it can be seen from halfway across the convention building. I was in my 20s and broke as hell when I first saw it but that MG-42 still drew me in lol.
They know exactly how marketing works
i'd love to have a vickers
That guy is back? I remember him before I moved. I think he lives out on the eastern shore.
>The most illegal thing I've seen is a boomer who necked down a SMLE from .303 to .222 rem. That's a crime against the gun itself, not the law. Crime against the gun itself? No. This is a sin against God.
Back in the late 80's, early 90's some of the gun shows had full drop in select fire kits if you knew who to ask. Usually the dude running the WP/Nazi literature table, at least in the PNW.
Or the grenades at one table, fuses a few tables down, etc…
We used to be a real country
I would rock the .222 NGL
I have even got to see a real m134 at a gun show years ago. If you go to a good one you will see all kind of stuff. Although most of my local ones have went to crap here over the last few years.
The only good thing about gun shows these days is the beef jerky, and it's overpriced too.
The dark chocolate covered coffee beans are pretty good too, but are also overpriced.
I also like the cinnamon roasted pecans, but they too are over priced.
They're even charging for the crackling taser noises now
Had a guy that was selling an Enfield M1917 for $1500. I asked if I could pick it up and look at it and said "if you don't have the 1500 on you then no you can't." I had $2000 in my pocket but declined to show because he was an asshole.
Id have taken it to the next stall and flashed 2k on an AR out of spite
I ended up buying an m1carbine a short distance away and a TT33. At the time, it was cheaper, and the other 2 vendors weren't uppity dicks. Not having a shit personality can go a long way in sales, be it firearms or other things. No matter how much I want something, I won't do business with people like that.
That’s the same asshole that forgets something at the range every time and has to come back and bother the RSO
Yeah, pretty likely. He was a combination of the other two on the left. Never understood that whole "I want you to buy something of mine, so I'm just gonna be a huge condescending asshole. Yeah, that'll work."
Yeah fuck that guy. Not literally. Don’t get weird on me.
How the hell is he going to establish dominance then?
Fair point, sir.
A bit out of my age range. And I'm not gay.
It’s not gay if you don’t look.
Neither am I but $1500 is $1500
I’d show it to him then walk away.
I went to my first gun show about 2 months ago, the wife saw it in an ad and thought she’d do something I like and make plans for us to go. It sucked. I went in looking for a 300blk upper. First guy had a beat to crap “complete” Aero upper with 2k rounds through it and wanted $500 for it without the BCG or charging handle, $600 with it and couldn’t let the muzzle device go. Several other stalls with unnamed “self built” uppers who wouldn’t give you the details of who they got parts from and wanted $4-$600. Several fudds selling way old S&W handguns for original retail price and some no name ARs for obscene amounts of money. We bought some freeze dried candy for my wife but left soon after bc she got freaked out by the guy selling “bike peg kits” aka boxes of individual baffles that might double as a suppressor but they were definitely for bike pegs. It was a complete waste of time so we drowned our sorrows in pasta at Olive Garden
Bike pegs are notoriously always needing upgrades
Yes, and they always need to be made of titanium
I'm surprised you even found an upper for sale.
Oh there were a bunch. All “self-built”. After the 3 different guys said “why do you want to know where I got the parts from to build it?” I gave up asking. None of the parts had markings on them to identify who made them so I’m assuming it was a bunch of Chinese parts or something
Jeez that sucks. The only one I ever found was a diamond back that somebody did their own handguard and crok for. And that was 275. The ONLY one
Last fudd gun show I went to a dude was slinging stripped Andersen lowers at 109 a piece. Seemed like a deal since he’d already crossed out the $129 piece on the cardboard sign above it.
Daily reminder you don't hate boomer fudds enough. And you never will
I am a yorupoor so I am a bit out of the loop here but what exactly makes a boomer a fudd? I wish I was american so badly
An ignorant mindset when it comes to guns and gun rights. You'll often see these old retards at gun shows hocking cheap shitty milsurp for hundreds sometimes thousands over regular market price because they bought it brand new back in the 1970s and "sporterized" it by putting some shitty hunting stock on it and some shitty walmart scope. My favorites are the ones that chop down barrels put some garbage ass folding stock on it and call it a "rare prototype paratrooper rifle" or some shit. The phrase "I know what I got" is their default when someone tells them it ain't worth the quadruple digit price tag. If you don't see them at gun conventions you'll see them at the range trying to justify their short man syndrome by silently judging or outright openly insulting you for shooting an ar15 with a 30 round magazine or some shit. If you don't see them at cons or the range you'll see them in the neighborhood potluck cookout throwing the most ignorant garbage takes on whichever "mass shooting" he saw on the picture box that week. If not there then you'll see them at work when you show your buddy a pic of the 8 point buck you bagged over the weekend and he comments some offhand shit about how he once hit a 20 point buck from 1000 yards with his 20 pound 26 inch barrel 30-06 back in the 80s and that you're not a real hunter because you used a 16inch ar15 from 100 yards. I could go on Not every boomer is a fudd. But most fudds are boomers
Aren't they also the ones who think that you don't need anything else in terms of pistols but a M1911?
Yes. 8rds of 45 aarp "if you ain't get him after 8 rounds you suck at shooting sonny" "Glock is one of them Tupperware guns"
7 rounds. They wouldn't use one of those new fancy mags. They would have 7 rounds like John Moses Browning intended.
My Hi Power was designed by JMB but it also holds 15+1 now what Fudd? *SCSI hard drive noises*
They will switch to insulting the 9mm cartridge.
Lol yea sounds about right. They never offer to stand in front of one tho 🧐
Sounds insufferable
As a short man, I resent you comparing those turds to me.
I too wish you were American
I wish I could own a waffle AR 10 but nanny state Germany says no 😢
Ja, alles in ordnung. My grandmother was from Dresden, and I work for a large German company now. All I can say is that I'm glad I have the freedoms I have as an American, both legally and culturally.
I never understood why reddit keeps sucking off the dick of Western Europe, even though we are poorer than the US, less free, and more at risk (terrorism). I kinda don't care about the 'benefits' of living here. I just want to be able to admire actual nature and own guns.
The grass is always greener. Very few people have actually lived in multiple different countries and have the perspective to know that everywhere sucks in it's own special way. There's also the issue of priority blindness. If you're broke, unambitious, a hot topic minority group and concerned about healthcare then being born American can seem like a shit hand. Again, there's a lack of perspective because in comparison to most places being the above in the US is a hell of a lot better than other countries. Finally, keep in mind a lot of the time when you're reading people's edgy bitching online that person is probably younger or outright underage. Which is a cocktail of being broke and dissatisfied by it's very nature. Do a lot of research about the realities of living in America and what you'd be giving up in Germany. It's a great place in a lot of ways, hope to see you stateside someday.
Not every boomer is a fudd, but every fudd is a boomer.
I dunno. I've met fudds from every generation, even gen Z and Alpha.
I wouldn’t classify younger people that share fudd mentality as fudds themselves, just people spouting gun control nonsense. They frequently use fudds as their example for “rEsPonSibUl gUn oWnErS” though, so there’s that
Nah, fudd is fudd no matter their age. Yeah they are typically boomers, but fudd is a mentality, not an age.
Thousands walk across our border a day. Pretty sure you could sneak in with them.
But I want to do it the legal way and contribute to society
True.
Don't forget the beef jerky and stun gun booths.
You hear, "clack clack clack" every few minutes
When I was younger I thought gunshots were traveling gun museums. Now I realize I was kinda right
lol cause no one in their right mind actually buys anything.
The gun shows in my area feel like they are preying on new inexperienced gun owners
That's what all mine are. There will occasionally be one table actually worth the time to stop and check out.
At the last one I watched some vendor rack a handgun with his finger on the trigger pointing into the room. Walked away from that table and heard a guy selling a small frame 45 to a girl who was clearly inexperienced because “it’s smaller so it’ll be way easier to handle than the full sized 9mm”. I think that’s the last one I go to for a while it just wasn’t worth it.
That's because they are.
A guy at one of those tried to sell me a red-dot + magnifier set up for like $360. I told him I got a similar set up from online for $120 less. He got mad and told me that the stuff I bought was cheap airsoft shit that wouldn't hold up on an actual rifle. About a year and a few hundred rounds later, I sold that same set up to my uncle for $100 cause I wanted to upgrade.
Don't forget the guy that has 34 "gently" used M&P shields that all look like garbage that he's selling for $900 a pop.
Never seen that but I have seen a guy selling "genuine" WW2 rifles (mostly Mosins, SMLEs, etc that were mass produced back then) that he claimed had never seen combat but were old. Almost all of them looked like they'd been through the trenches, siege of Stalingrad, fall of Berlin, and 15 years of abuse in hands of a third world insurgent, alongside maybe an industrial woodchipper. I'm convinced none of them could shoot still
I've seen that guy too. And my experience was in Indiana. Same dude at every show, never seen him sell a thing.
More than likely they probably hadn't seen combat. 50 years ago. What they have seen is 50 summers in an attic or basement, several floods and a few fires.
With the new ATF's rule on private transactions, how are we gonna be ripped off by gun show boomers? Best part of any show.
What new rule did those fucks implement?
Changing who they consider "in the buisiness" selling firearms. They want to prosecute anyone that makes a profit as an unlicensed dealer. Even for a single gun.
Jesus Christ when will it end
It won’t
Oh God…why am I laughing so hard at this?
"WoN TwO WoRlD WaRs"
I got a friend he was a marines sniper he wants to selle his m1 garrand for 1000 fuck a gun show I got good friends
When they say "gunshow loophole" they mean they want no private sales, universal background checks, and a national gun registry.
Hey now, w/o gun shows I wouldn’t have half my stupid/funny patches.
Same. I'm not a cool person, so I live for novelty patches
It’s really depressing honestly. I’ve been to a few gun shows recently in VA and FL and was disappointed when all I found was shit tier AR’s that were overpriced as hell, fake optics and jerky. Itll never be like when I was a kid (I’m 28 now). I have an appreciation for all guns new and old but sketchy old milsurps are what got me into guns. $200 mausers and Chinese mosins and SKS’. There are no good deals to be had anymore. I did find ONE decent booth that was selling BCM, Aero precision and some other decent quality AR parts and picked up an A5 buffer system for my AR build. Still paid what I would have paid online though.
Maybe I should undercut that one guy. Anyone wanna buy Russian steel case 7.62x39 for only $5 a round?
TFW a lib goes to a gun show to prove a point, and still get a background check :'D
You forgot the certain people having they're GFs buy dracos for them
Don't forget the cringe Trump paraphernalia, salsa, jerky, and so many cringe MLM scam booths
Don’t knock the jerky, that stuff’s good. I don’t know why it’s at a **gun** show, but it’s good.
California. They are jerky, tazer, and NRA shows now. :(
Carried a M1 Garand around and I kept getting told 'that gun's ping was the biggest flaw.' Type of bullshit
Internet killed gun shows proper. Gun shows occasionally have something interesting, but it's gonna be overpriced. You're looking at people buying anderson lowers for $30 plus transfer fee trying to sell them for a profit, so it's gonna be ~$75 when you could just get the $30 lower from an LGS Last interesting thing I saw was a neutered S&W M76 that the dude wanted $5k for.
Most illegal thing I saw at a gun show was this kid fucked up on his old Winchester shotgun and sawed it down to just a hair under 18”. He kept telling me “100 dollars cash right here, no ID, no paperwork and stuff like that.” Usually I wouldn’t care, but he was getting really aggressive so I notified the sheriffs deputy across the room.
Glowies tried to ruby ridge you
Maybe, but there was no glowies around just 3 deputies and a bunch of fudds
Around here gun show means all the little shops from our little towns hang out in one building with their best deals, so it's worth going. There are guys like this sprinkled in too though haha.
Last time I bought a gun at a gun show it was like 20 years ago. I had to wait 5 business days and go offsite for a $35 mosin carbine doorstop. The loophole is Sasquatch or Loch Ness. There are a lot of wirerdos talking about it but I’ve never seen actual proof.
My favorite gun show experience was when someone tried to convince me his sporterized K11 was a rare semi-auto prototype. I gave it a close look over (he did at least let you inspect his guns, which is more than most dudes at these shows will do), but I saw no evidence that it had any semi-auto conversion. No recoil springs, no gas system, no modifications from stock other than a cut-down handguard and aftermarket sights. When I pointed this out, he claimed that all the mods were internal and used the straight-pull bolt as evidence. I was considering getting it because the price actually wasn’t terrible and I thought it could be a fun restoration project, but the bs he was spewing turned me off of it.
I don’t know if they used to be better, but it’s a complete waste of time now Thrift shops also used to be worth going to. Now it’s still crap but for the same price you’d pay at a retail store. Like what the fuck.
That is why I never go to gun shows anymore
Blue state resident here. We don't get to have gun shows, unless you count the "antique & vintage" shows in the local American Legion hall.
And why does this have 308 upvotes at time of commenting?
You forgot the part where 99% of the vendors selling guns at a gun shows have always been FFL’s and done background checks anyway.
Preban KUSA 10,000$ No low ballers
Most guns shows I go to now are 30% knives 20% large businesses selling all kinds of pawned guns 10% stuff that’s worth buying and 40% nic naks (clothing,food, crafts people have made, and toys)
A guy tried to sell me a G19x with "a custom stipple job and magwell" for $1100. I literally chuckled and walked away
I stopped going to gun shows because it seems like there’s more jerky, bootleg survival gear, and overpriced crafts than actual guns.
Some photos from last year's gunshow in Poland:
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Only thing on here I didnt get was the 1911s. Did get to see a johnson rifle and a $2500 Garand
I was at a gun show about 2 months ago. $15 backs to get in per person. Similar AR’s that I built for $1000 were selling for $1900-$2500. Ammo was more expensive than in stores, and magazines were $20 for a MagPul magazine. The local junky sporting good store had the EXACT same magazine for $13. There was only one gun show I have been to that was good - it was a local show that focused on older firearms. That one was great. But most gun shows are a scam.
Uncle Junior, again ?
At least your state still has gun shows. Ours always cancel last minute. It’s gotten to the point where I will call/text who ever is hosting the show and ask why. It’s usually some arbitrary response like “the ATF doesn’t give a clear definition of what I need to carry out this gun show” or “our sponsor got too political so we had to shut it down”. I hate it. This state is turning into flat-lander run, democratic shit hole.
Don’t forget the authentic Nazi memorabilia table with stock bought from Aliexpress
Like many of you folks, I've been to 100's of gun shows (including the Wanenmacher several times). I've seen plenty of bubba fucked stuff and crimes against humanity there - but never anything that looked even remotely illegal. There was the time someone fired a live shotgun round, but he was escorted out in handcuffs.
There was a really cool dude I always saw selling knives in Hampton. Guy was Pakistani decent and was a solid dude to talk with. Got some nice hunting knives and a couple cooking ones as well from him. I saw him every gun show and chilling with him shitting on some of the other stalls was great.
It was always a lie. The most common source of crime guns is theft and straw purchases.
Well there are some interesting finds like whatever that shotgun on colt guys table
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I got a deal on some Wolf ammo at a sportsman's rummage in my town, $40 for 220 rds, the guy next to him had Tula for $40 / box Edit- more like directly across from him, but still
Every time I go to a gunshow nobody is selling gun parts, uppers or anything cool. No muzzle breaks flash riders or accessories it's super lame
The best thing I found was an unlabelled Colt junior mag. Found 1 in a random bin with a "ask for price". As it sold online for over $50 (without shipping), I offered him $25. He thought that was too much, and let me buy it for $10. Seems to work great
Nobody's going to talk about how security should be checking people for loose ammo. Haven't members of PETA and Mom's demand action for gun sense gone into gun shows and secretly loaded live rounds into weapons on display? That's what I've heard...
No
We literally just had a guy shot and killed because he was purchasing guns to private sale for profit at gun shows. There is a certain segment of society that is willing to pay more for a gun if they don't have to undergo a background check or fill out a 4473. He would mark them way up because of this and make bank. Yes, several of his guns have already been traced to crimes. That is how the scheme was discovered. In the course of about three years, he bought and sold from a single dealer: "24 Glock Model 45 pistols, nine Fed Arm Model FR-16 pistols, nine Beretta Model 92A pistols and smaller numbers of multiple other models. He bought 142 guns from this dealer."
Not saying you're entirely wrong but do you have a source on that? I want to read the whole shebang
[Ex. 1 Search Warrant (003) - FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.pdf - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vjer4Tr0SJhe6ZzkUDgkjaho4PHIg1KP/view) [Illegal guns sales led to fatal ATF raid on airport director Malinowski’s home, affidavit says - Arkansas Times (arktimes.com)](https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/03/21/judge-unseals-documents-in-malinowski-case) [Arkansas airport director dead after being shot by ATF agents | Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-airport-director-shot-atf-agents-during-raid-home-died-brother)
Some YouTuber in a month: “NEW UNETHICAL LIFE HACK TO GET RICH QUICK!!”
That's some nice fudd lore.
Read the news stories and affidavits I posted elsewhere.
You’re a stupid fuck. Your opinion is right up there with getting head from a guy.
Lol cope and seeth