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Pretty Much Looked Like a Gun Show

author Posted by:Sebastian on date Apr 16th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Guns, The Media

A fair article from the Tuscon Citizen.  I wish Philly media could be that balanced.

The pictures I couldn’t take would show:

  • It looked sort of like a craft show. There were leather belts, German helmets from World War II, polished stones, wood carvings and special handbags for women who carry guns.
  • It looked sort of like an Army surplus store, with bayonets, canteens, Samurai swords and even a box of disarmed grenades that could make panic-inducing paperweights.
  • It looked sort of like a convention of hunters, with lots of bright orange and camouflage.
  • But mostly it looked like a gun show
Yep.  Gun shows tend to look the same everywhere, and there’s not much else that’s like it.  I attended the Nations Gun Show last weekend at the Dulles Expo Center, and it looked pretty much the same as the ones in Pennsylvania.  In fact, I recognized a lot of the vendors from shows in PA.  Read the rest the article.

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tag11 Responses to “Pretty Much Looked Like a Gun Show”

  1. Linoge Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I have snagged some of the best hot sauce I have found anywhere at a gun show.. Amazing the things you find.

  2. thirdpower Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Ah, you mean the dangerous “Assault Sauce” that makes you spray fire from the colon? Those dealers in dangerous weapons should be licensed.

    Yep. Good stuff.

  3. Sebastian Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    The ring of fire ain’t just a chain of volcanos :)

  4. kaveman308 Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    I couldn’t help but be reminded of this classic joke.

    http://www.aarons-jokes.com/joke-3259.shtml

  5. Turk Turon Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    I was at Dulles Friday and Saturday; sorry I missed you. Great display of Class-3 stuff. I bought a 10-mm Witness.

    Coolest thing I got was three boxes of white-tipped kitchen matches for $5, the kind you can strike with your thumbnail.

  6. Sebastian Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    One thing I found amusing was the guy selling body armor “Soon to be banned by federal government” I’ve seen seeing that at gun shows since I was 13. Guess the feds are still working on that one.

  7. Linoge Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Yeah, well, the sauce was good going down.

    And while it still requires a piece of steel to use properly, I definitely like the ligher I got at another gun show – a little cylinder of spark-producing material (flint, I guess?) super-glued to a cylinder of magnesium. Scrape off some magnesium into a little pile on something you want to ignite, toss a few sparks into it, and, well, you are just set.

  8. rightwingprof Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    There’s a gun show here in Centre County next weekend (I think). Saw a sign for it. I hadn’t heard a word about it until I saw the sign.

  9. Tom Said,
    April 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    I do SOOO love the always present references to anything german and from WWII. It’s almost comedic, that is if the implied “gun owners are nazis” shit wasn’t so reprehensible.

  10. kaveman308 Said,
    April 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    One thing the article did leave out about gun shows is that at EVERY SINGLE one of them, you will at some point, at least once, walk directly into someone’s rectal funk cloud and it will damn near knock you over.

    Ya’ll know what I’m talking ’bout.

  11. rightwingprof Said,
    April 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    If anybody’s going to be in central Pennsylvania this weekend, here are the details.