Top Ten Reasons to go to Gun shows

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Top Ten Reasons to go to Gun shows

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:20:03 PM EDT

10) You can pay for a table and try to unload some of those gun parts you bought that weren't quite right.
9) You can wear your SHTF gear and not get a second look.
8)Two Words Beef Jerky

Ok I can only think of three

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:28:09 PM EDT

[#1]

7) Kettle Korn - I have no idea what it is, and I've never seen it, but some people are here love it.z

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:28:39 PM EDT

[#2]

7) you need to be surrounded by stinky strangers in SHTF gear, to feel "normal"
6) you need more t-shirts with wolves and eagles airbrushed on 'em

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:33:46 PM EDT

[#3]

5) You get to see lots of rediculously overpriced guns and realize your own collection must be worth a FORTUNE! [:D]

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:35:38 PM EDT

[#4]

5) The only place on Earth where there is 00.000% chance of running into Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:38:26 PM EDT

[#5]

4) You learn that the 9mm is the be all-end all of handguns from a 17 year old.

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:39:41 PM EDT

[#6]

3) Two words: Beanie-Babies!

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:40:03 PM EDT

[#7]

4)You enjoy cutting yourself trying to unsheath a grease covered (but rusty) bayonet that has been painstakenly placed in the wrong type of sheath.

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:45:03 PM EDT

[#8]

3) You get to hear some really good comedy as dealers give examples of their boundless knowledge of firearms to anyone who pauses by their table.

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:48:54 PM EDT

[#9]

(2) ... those looks you get navigating a handtruck stacked high with bulk ammo, powder and primers walking out to the truck.

(edited because I didn't see the algorithm)

Posted: 12/10/2001 8:53:59 PM EDT

[#10]

Unnumbered: If you are a very young looking guy with a shaved head, you can go have lots of fun making the dealers nervous when you go in a green t-shirt, finger all the SKS's and ask about making one of them full auto.
[;D]

Posted: 12/10/2001 9:06:28 PM EDT

[#11]

(1) The only place that can "demonstrate" a TAC-Trigger actually working.

Posted: 12/10/2001 9:07:45 PM EDT

[#12]

(0) Only place in the world where you can feel !!!SAFE!!! when a guy with a 12ga shotgun is standing behind you in the line for the ATM.

Posted: 12/10/2001 9:09:34 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
a green t-shit
[;D]

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Hey Beavis, he said...

Posted: 12/10/2001 11:15:32 PM EDT

[#14]

It is the only place where I am not shunned and socially rejected.

Posted: 12/10/2001 11:38:47 PM EDT

[#15]

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Sgtar15

Posted: 12/10/2001 11:55:10 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
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Sgtar15

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Amen to that, brother. Enjoy it while it lasts though.[:\]

[(:|)]

Posted: 12/11/2001 12:40:55 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
a green t-shit
[;D]

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Hey Beavis, he said...

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Hey! Shirt happens! [:P]

Posted: 12/11/2001 3:25:24 AM EDT

[#18]

(1) So 'they' won't talk about you when you're not there.

(2) 'Cause you might be in the right place, at the right time, for once in your miserable life.

That last one comes from a real-life situation - we were at the Irving Gun Show in Irving, Texas, on Sunday, February 28, 1993, when the ATF attack on Mt Carmel, near Waco, Texas, took place.

Let's just say that 'sales got brisk' that afternoon!

Eric The(BackWhenIrvingPermittedGunShows)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 12/11/2001 4:26:01 AM EDT

[#19]

Tables full of AR's.....

Posted: 12/11/2001 5:23:11 AM EDT

[#20]

Not meant to [flame] shows,ILUVsEm,but the comic relief I see at 90% of the tables is the prices and 'some vendors

Posted: 12/11/2001 5:59:10 AM EDT

[#21]

Unlike stores at the mall like eddie bauers'eses or a nightclub (because for now you can still get beer at the funshow) I look like a greek god compared to all the other dudes there.

You guys need to start bringing your sisters and daughters with you!

Posted: 12/11/2001 6:11:41 AM EDT

[#22]

Top Ten Reasons to Go to a Gun Show:

10) If you have to pay to get in, it must be good!

9) Personal hygiene is optional.

8) Great opportunity to play "Spot the undercover fed".

7) More old shotguns than you can shake a stick at.

6) Get the latest info on what those sneaky, foreign bastards are up to at the UN.

5) Tubs o' rusty gun parts.

4) Free demonstrations of unsafe gun handling.

3) See if the guy who's had the same table of dusty junk for the past three years has actually sold anything.

2) Narrow, crowded aisles promote togetherness.

1) You might actually meet someone who posts here!

Posted: 12/11/2001 7:11:47 AM EDT

[#23]

1) You enjoy being treated with contempt if you ask questions while spending your money.

Posted: 12/11/2001 6:50:38 PM EDT

[#24]

It can be like a family reunion. Especially here in Arkansas.

Posted: 12/11/2001 6:56:54 PM EDT

[#25]

No shipping charges
No haz-mat fees
All the cool shirts, bumper stickers, and junk.
A great place to wear chest waders because the BS gets deep in a hurry with so many "experts" in one room.
To actually buy guns is also a good reason.

Posted: 12/11/2001 7:08:58 PM EDT

[#26]

1) ya get to hang out with Campy bob, and the rest of the bunch from NE Ohio.

2-10) Ya get to look at the chick from Ammunitionstore.com and wish you were 10 years younger!

Posted: 12/11/2001 8:30:33 PM EDT

[#27]

1) You can actually find a bargain every now and then- $15 niw Thermolds (it happened to me)

Posted: 12/11/2001 8:46:19 PM EDT

[#28]

Inevitably some guy that always looks like Weird Al Yankovic seeing me handling a gun will ask my opinion on what is the best gun for this or that.Can't get away from them fast enough.

Posted: 12/11/2001 8:57:25 PM EDT

[#29]

You might be able to run into someone who has insulted you on at this board and give them a well placed wedgie. (Don't run and tell the storm troopers on me you prissies!)

Posted: 12/11/2001 9:07:30 PM EDT

[#30]

1)Getting to hear all the "war stories" from the Navy Seals, Rangers, Delta, and other SF gun dealers at the show!

medcop

Posted: 12/11/2001 9:23:16 PM EDT

[#31]

2) Continuously under threat of losing an eye to the muzzle of some ancient rod carried by a slightly more ancient moron "like a Continental soldier" and having no sense of the space behind him.

1) Finding out just what pieces are absolutely the last ones that are going to be made, so you're lucky to even see a cast aluminum Century G3, let alone have the opportunity to buy one for $975!

Posted: 12/11/2001 10:09:04 PM EDT

[#32]

you get to see this me in a Kilt [:E]

Posted: 12/11/2001 10:37:55 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
My Top 10 List

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Did I miss anything?

Sgtar15

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Uh, Sarge, ummm, oh never mind.

Posted: 12/11/2001 11:00:12 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Uh, Sarge, ummm, oh never mind.

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Shhhhh...it our secret...okay?[;)]

sgtar15

Posted: 12/11/2001 11:29:27 PM EDT

[#35]

1) Find that cubic zirconia engagement ring, for half the price! hah!
2) Find that turquoise native american bracelet for your mom for Christmas! Being sold by the the most white native ever! And he's dressed in full leather costume!
3) Get to see all those crazy gun owners you hear about on the news!
4) You see all the same guys you see every time you go. You recognize them by the T-shirt they usually wear!
5) You ask the same dealer for a part you've been after for 5 years, and play table tag, trying to find the guy "on the other end of the show" that has the part...
6) Huge Pretzels.
7) Huge guys eating them.
(7a) Guys drinking beer from plastic cups, while at a gun show.
8) Finding a table of music tapes, that seem to be titled all in German.
9) The table right next that has the Opera Winfrey book of the month collection.
'Poor man james bond',
'anarcist cookbook',
'how to kill',
'knife fighting in prison',
'survive the coming nuclear holocaust'.
'omish living'

10) The only place to find a VHS of Red Dawn for $5.00, and you KNOW the guy selling it thought it was a great movie too!

My wife helped with some of these. She loves the gun show subculture.

-Fs