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Old 01-31-2007 | 05:11 PM
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Default RE: Gun Shows SUCK!!!!!

I remember ten years or so ago, you could go to a show and make off with some great deals. They sold cases of ammo cheap, like you were buying bulk toilet paper. And you would see some unique, and interesting pieces. You could go on the afternoon of the last day and make some killer deals on guns the dealers didn't want to take back with them.

Now, it is a flea/junk market with a few guns tossed in. The last show I went to had more KKK items than Mosin Nagant's! One guy was selling knives. He had them priced at $15 each, and I wouldn't have given him 15 cents for one. Or the guy that had the 1917 Eddystone "priced to sell quick" at $850, and it looked like it lived in a barn for 50 years. And not one person was selling cases of ammo. Only 2 sellers had ammo of any kind, and it was just a couple boxes of this and that.

Not to mention, by looking at some of the dealers, I am amazed they even have their FFL. Some of these guysseemed like running a calculator might be tough, let alone keep up their fed book.

I am done with gun shows. Nothing but a waste of time and the price of admission.
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