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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:37:56 PM EDT
[#1]
What show was this?
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:39:09 PM EDT
[#2]
That's awesome. Half the fun of gun shows are some of the creatures that show up.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:40:56 PM EDT
[#3]
the Indy 1500 show in Indianapolis. Oh, I forgot Idiot #6: guy walking around with a Colt AR15A2 with a sign on a straw in the muzzle reading PREBAN!! LAST CHANCE!! $1400!! |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:43:21 PM EDT
[#4]
wow!
and all i get to ridicule is the fat dude with all the east german flecktarn camo and the dealers that have had the same overpriced assault toyz on their tables since 1989. |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:46:22 PM EDT
[#7]
Ahahahaha! What an asshat. I picked up one of those for $200!  He must think we're idiots!
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:48:18 PM EDT
[#8]
How was the jerky?
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:50:37 PM EDT
[#9]
And wire strippers?? |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:50:51 PM EDT
[#10]
I enjoy reading about other's encounters at the funshows...it never gets old.
Funny stuff. 
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:52:43 PM EDT
[#11]
Glad I'm not on that list! I had my MECA sweatshirt on, but thats only cause I went straight to work. I saw that dude with the AR. He's nuts.
 What kind of upper you got?
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:57:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Fixed it for you. |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:59:15 PM EDT
[#13]
I figured my grammer was bad enough.
 I'm working on the corn rows. 
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Posted: 10/31/2004 2:59:38 PM EDT
[#14]
I wish we could get some excitement like that at our local gunshows....lately ours have sounded like crickets on a cool, quiet evening. Very boring with no deals.
LB |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:01:09 PM EDT
[#15]
No knife sharpener guys ?
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:02:29 PM EDT
[#16]
You should have come to Nappanee. Amish people with AR's, I had a good time.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:03:00 PM EDT
[#17]
Bingo. I never go to em myself. I have to hear you guys stories.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:04:41 PM EDT
[#18]
Yes you do run into some freeks now and then but most people at the gun shows are decent family types. You can run into wierdos any where.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:05:21 PM EDT
[#19]
I feel like I have been missing out.
I have been to exactly three gunshows in my life. Overpriced crap, but none of the "personality." |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:09:53 PM EDT
[#20]
lol
I saw they guy with the $1400 preban on Sat. |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:12:25 PM EDT
[#21]
Gunshows are good for parts and ammo. Thats about it. Oh, and I did buy a cammo tarp once.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:16:03 PM EDT
[#22]
Get your wife any jewelry or candles. My 11 year old and 13 year old daughters go with me to one show every year to buy jewelry because it is too expensive in the stores and at the jewelry show.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:17:38 PM EDT
[#23]
At the Valley Forge Gun Show in PA, where they pack it in,I always seem to get hit with the SILENT, BUT DEADLY FARTERS and the BODY ODOR  . I'd be happy to see nutjobs you get than deal with these STINKERS.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:17:42 PM EDT
[#24]
You have got to be kidding me. The cowboy biker in the black leather trench coat was not there with his gun show whore girlfriend that has long since hit the wall and regularly mistakes wide belts for skirts.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:22:34 PM EDT
[#25]
Not too many idiots I see at the Texas Gun Shows.......just a very few scary looking dudes with baaggy pants, big ugly tatoos, and gold chains to match their gold teeth. It especially disturbed me to see them at the tables of those selling guns privately......if you know what I mean.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:24:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:25:58 PM EDT
[#27]
I miss shows like that.
I drove to the Panama City show Saturday - I spent more time driving then at the show. What a let down - I'm not sure there were even 50 tables! I did buy some overpriced Jerky, though - it's tradition. There were still plenty of people to make fun of, but just not in the amounts I prefer. Oh, and I drank heavily Friday night - so I WAS the "silent but deadly" guy at that show .
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:28:08 PM EDT
[#28]
And plush toy colections?? |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:30:59 PM EDT
[#29]
I've got the Ventura Co. gun show next weekend, and the Orange County CA on Thanksgiving weekend. Haven't been to the OC show before. Gunshow reports to follow.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:36:30 PM EDT
[#30]
Yeah i saw those guys too. =\ I told them to buzz off (most litteraly, thats what i said), they didnt take to kindly to it. I believe the term "racist honkey" was used. But did you notice that there was A LOT of airsoft stuff there? |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:38:45 PM EDT
[#31]
People that I have seen at gunshows (NOT "special guests")
David Allan Coe (looking at a knife - 'cause he's a convict) G. Gordon Liddy (three times now, he's a regular at the big show in Tulsa each year) Steven Tyler of Aerosmith - no shi'ite (there with the wife and kiddo's - his in-law's live in Tulsa) and loads and loads of former Navy SEALS! I wonder why all retired SEALS are vendors on the gun show circuits?) 
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Posted: 10/31/2004 3:58:18 PM EDT
[#32]
The people watching is so awesome though--I often go just for that. The BO can be bad... I love the people who dress up. What kind of weird fantasy lives do they have? These are *REAL* guns, folks. Mostly harmless, I guess, but wow! I think they should take aspiring business school students to gun shows to illustrate how bad businessmen operate. Out of the dozens of dealers at the shows I go to, there are only like one or two I will actually buy anything from. |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 4:08:57 PM EDT
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And Kettle Korn? And lots of plumbers' butt, buttcracks extraordinaire, from really overweight guys who never bathe/shave? I hate going to gun shows - the prices are too high anyway.  |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 4:21:07 PM EDT
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The influx of security officers at the shows, wearing there tactical gear and badges are funny. Must be off duty WallyWorld cops.
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Posted: 10/31/2004 4:22:18 PM EDT
[#35]
I know one guy, the only time he does shower is when he works at a gun show! The water pressure / hot water at the motel is probably much better than at his house!
Indy shows are huge - they always get a wide variety of characters. |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 4:24:30 PM EDT
[#36]
Don't forget the fucker that cleans eyeglasses or the juice man
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Posted: 10/31/2004 4:48:30 PM EDT
[#38]
Jeez, you're not kidding, that place is tight and some of the guys there stink! |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 5:11:38 PM EDT
[#39]
They were there too
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Posted: 10/31/2004 5:20:28 PM EDT
[#40]
"this is the reason i have allways avoided Gun Shows. "
Are you kidding? Have the fun is checking out the freak shows... |
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Posted: 10/31/2004 5:24:48 PM EDT
[#41]
Heh. The Virginia gun shows have a low idiot population in my experience. At the last one, the worst was a guy selling some "miracle glue! It's cyanoacrylate, but it's different from superglue! Honest!" I got a post-sunset rifle there... for $800, a Bushmaster no less. The prebans topped out at $1000 if they were in pristine condition, more if they were special (like the Colt LMG upper with the square handguards and heavy barrel, $1200, no lower unfortunately, and you would have to replace the internals to be compliant). The worst that ever happened was a guy that tried to sell me a regular CZ-52 with original barrel as 9mm. Moved on.
Or it could have been the guy that sold me an M91/30 for $100. I thought it was a good deal, though, so it was me who was the stupid one. Now the bore's rusted out. |
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