I know a lot of the deals at a gun show are from guys privately selling guns. Now my question is I know in private sales a lot of times people will call and have the police to check the serial number to make sure it isn't stolen. Do you do this if you buy something at a gun show? Or do you just buy it right then and there and hope it's not stolen? The reason I ask is I don't see too many people wanting to wait around for that. I've never bought any guns at a show but the ones I've seen be bought it was basically just telling everyone about it then exchanging cash for the gun. What do you do in situations like this? I'm not planning to buy one but you never know if a deal might come up.

All the gun shows I've been to had guns for sale that you could buy cheaper from actual dealer. I wont say if you find a deal too good to be true it probably is too good to be true... But, there is always a chance it's stolen or something like that. If I was in the situation, I'd try to get it checked before I bought it. If it's not stolen why would the guy selling the gun really care?

Just my 2 cents.

Not talking about at the tables and stuff as that's basically my experience too. I'm talking about the guys standing at the door or the ones walking around selling their personal guns.

I don't know if they would mind but it seems like they just walk around telling as many people as possible until someone buys it. Or walks around with a sign on it. So I'm not sure how many people would want to stand there and wait while you call the police department to verify it while they could be telling others about it. Especially since I've heard some people say it's taken days for the police department to get back to you. I highly doubt someone is going to wait days or even a day for you to decide if you want it based on weather it's stolen or not when they could sell it right there to someone else.