I'd have to concur from a buyer's standpoint. The prices were about average for a show, with fewer than normal ripoff artists there (I only saw two tables of outrageously overpriced firearms there, the rest were within normal haggling range). Despite this, I didn't see much buying going on. The only guy that appeared to be making a lot of sales was selling reloading components. I bought a couple of pounds of powder from him and had to stand in line to pay for it.
I also picked up a couple of mag springs and green followers to try to rehab some horribly overworked mags I bought during the ban.
I heard no less than five sellers complaining LOUDLY about the lask of sales, and one near-fight break out between a couple of guys wotking a table. Seems one of them was complainig too often for the other's taste.
There were a lot of folks walking around looking to sell... mostly AR's in during-the-ban configuration, Remongton 742's/7400's, well cared for older american hunting-type bolt guns, and the occasional pimped-out SKS.
The thing that I thought was most strange was the relatively large number of dreadlocked/cornrowed inner-city youth types buying SKS's at every table that had them. I guess the PR value of the Birmingham Crack House Cop Shooting was indispensable to the sales of these firearms.
Before I am misunderstood on this point, they may have been normal law-abiding types just looking to defend their castles. If so, more power to them. If not, then 7.62X39 will be in high demand if the levees around Birmingham ever break and flood the city.
-Hobbit