GUN-SHOW WEIRDNESS

[leVieux]

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What is the strangest thing you've ever seen at a Gun-Show ?

For me there were the FAKE Rolex watch traders, pocket knives much too gigantic to fit in a pocket, non-functional ammo, and the guy at New Orleans Lakefront who shot himself in the thigh while re-holstering, a PPK, yet.

But, some 15 years ago at a big Gun-Show at Harlingen, a young man came up to me to ask a question. He was tiny, couldn't have been an inch over 5', and was decked-out in RAMBO combat gear. Neatly ironed camo fatigues, little military boots, boonie hat. Was carrying an AR slung over his shoulder, a Beretta in a dropped holster, one of those Jimmy LIles type Rambo daggers, and an absurd number of loaded magazines. If that wasn't strange enough, he was dragging along a very beautiful young girl, looked about 17, less than 5', also in full combat clothing, camo short-shorts. She didn't have body armor like he did, or a discernable weapon. But she was drop-dead beautiful. The entire deal looked like something from a movie.

I wish, I WISH I had snapped a pic.

What have you seen ?

leVieux
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[WarBaby]

So much weirdness at gun shows, but I try to ignore all of that and focus on my real passion, scoring rare beanie babies and dream catchers.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Here are some....

GUN SHOW SCAMS

> A friend proudly showed me the two "ROLEX" watches he had traded two nice Weatherby rifles with Leupold scopes for at a West Texas gun show. Hated to tell him, but the watches were $20 fakes. Another time I saw a J P Sauer 12GA double gun at a show, for a "reasonable price". After...

www.texasguntalk.com

 

[baboon]

The 2 stand outs were the Asian dude with all these knives on him & James Drury pimped out as The Virginian!

Bio

JAMES CHILD DRURY was born April 18, 1934 in New York City, where his father was a Professor of Marketing at New York University. When James was six weeks old, his mother, a native of Oregon, and the...

www.thevirginian.net

 

[Glenn B]

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... the FAKE Rolex watch traders, pocket knives much too gigantic to fit in a pocket, non-functional ammo, and the guy at New Orleans Lakefront who shot himself in the thigh while re-holstering, a PPK, yet...
...He was tiny, couldn't have been an inch over 5', and was decked-out in RAMBO combat gear. Neatly ironed camo fatigues, little military boots, boonie hat. Was carrying an AR slung over his shoulder, a Beretta in a dropped holster, one of those Jimmy LIles type Rambo daggers, and an absurd number of loaded magazines. If that wasn't strange enough, he was dragging along a very beautiful young girl, looked about 17, less than 5', also in full combat clothing, camo short-shorts. She didn't have body armor like he did, or a discernable weapon. But she was drop-dead beautiful. The entire deal looked like something from a movie....

What's weird about any of that?

 

[Moonpie]

A pinned and recessed S&W priced reasonably.
Scared me. Thought maybe it was The End of Days.

 

[A1Oni]

some prick who sells knives made by someone else for exorbitant prices, people trying to hock off an SKS for a 1000 dollars, the usual bullshit.

 

[V-Tach]

Maybe I'm weird, but the only weird shit I ever see is at Wal-Mart........

 

[vmax]

"What is the strangest thing you've ever seen at a Gun-Show ?"

A fair price on something I actually have been looking for

 

[A1Oni]

"What is the strangest thing you've ever seen at a Gun-Show ?"

A fair price on something I actually have been looking for

aint that the truth

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

vmax,

Bingo!

The days of 'deals' are dead at gun shows.

 

[A1Oni]

most people selling at gunshows are geriatric dudes who think a rusty KAR98AZ is worth 1000 dollars or some shit and its annoying as can be, or you will have some dude with a poverty spec AR or glock trying to sell it with like a 500% mark up.

 

[mountainbull]

I've setup at 3 gun shows and always sold out my tables by end of a 3 day show.
I price my items(guns,reloading gear and assorted stuff) at prices I would pay and don't try to make 300% profit.
I do make a profit on my stuff but I buy it at a price I can to make a reasonable profit.
I only sell from my personal collection to make room in the safe.
Some shows ill have 4 or 5 things and others ill have more than a dozen
I just do it for fun, and hope everyone at the show has fun also.

 

[rotor]

I used to see nice stuff at my local gunshow but now it is an arts and craft show, certainly no deals on anything and very few "nice" guns.

 

[V-Tach]

Geriatric dudes...lol.....

Guilty!

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Hey, ya whippersnapper, I'm a geriatric dude and in the past year, I've 'given away a number of guns' that've been barely shot i.e., damn near new...

To wit: A shot gun I shot twice for a grand total of 5 rounds and 2 different 9mm semi-autos that probably had a total of 200 rounds shot through them. Along with a lot of ammo for the recipients to practice with.

Plus, Both of these semi-auto pistols were top shelf that is S&W and Ruger.

To be fair, my aim doing this wasn't altogether altruistic.

How's that?: Ultimately, I didn't like any of the guns I gave away, but knew they would gladden the heart of the recipients.

I didn't like the shotgun because of the controls. I didn't like one of the semi's because one had a standard type safety and the other had a grip safety. Controls again...

Didn't I know these details before I bought them?

Yes, of course, but I thought I could live with these particulars and it turned out I could...but didn't want to.

Would I take them to a gun show for sale?

No, I'm in a place where loved ones can use my cast offs without me demanding they cough up some moola.

Lucky me and them.

 

[seeker_two]

Today, it was a guy with 100rd boxes of .38Spl 130gr FMJ that had them priced at $1/rd and expected people to buy it....

 

[V-Tach]

Had a gentleman come in yesterday with four 100 round packs of Winchester .20 ga. 2 3/4 7.5 shot...wanted $400.00 or 1.00/rd....

I said no thanks....

He claimed he knows what they are going for on the internet......

 

[Army 1911]

A US&S 1911 for 4k and it was obvious that the roll marks were photographed and the gun was refinished. This was at a table belonging to an "expert".

 

[A1Oni]

Geriatric dudes...lol.....

Guilty!

some of the old folks are ok, but you know the type.