gemini wrote:Not trying to have a discussion about 30.06 at any gun shows. Simply the DACA (Market Hall Gun Shows). They have a "Safety Committee"jmra wrote:I was at Dallas Market Hall for a gun show with my brother a couple of years ago. We had taken some things we had purchased out to the truck and were coming back into the show when we heard a loud boom.
Turns out a vendors BIL (a CHL holder) had come through the back door to help work the table. At some point he decides to see what he can get for his EDC. He pulls out the mag and replaces it with an empty mag but fails to rack the slide and eject the round in the chamber.
Of course you know what happened next. A shopper picks up the "unloaded" gun and pulls the trigger. The .45 round went through the table and chipped a neat little hole out of the floor. Must have been a decent hollow point round because it mushroomed and stayed right there.
The vendor, BIL, and shopper were all escorted from the building by LEO.
The scary thing was my brother and I had just been at the next table 15 minutes earlier. It is a wonder no one was hurt.
that constantly patrols the isles. Guys wearing blue DACA vests. Checking vendors, individuals etc. for sealed ammo boxes, cable ties
on guns etc etc. They also hire plenty of off duty DPD officers both inside and outside the building for security. They have had very, very,
very few incidents as described above. Their shows are the largest in Texas, if not one of, and they try to make them as safe as
possible for the thousands that pass through. The members also teach Hunters Ed courses at most shows.
As far as the BIL, vendor, and customer mentioned above. Good riddance. Stupity knows no bounds.
Edit: LOL. Make that stupidity.
I love the show and think they do a great job. The fault fell squarely on those three. The vendor is responsible for all the items on the table. The BIL failed in too many ways to list. BUT, the customer pulled the trigger. The gun doesn't go bang if the customer simply verifies that the gun is unloaded before "dry" firing the weapon.I constantly drill this into my 13 and 11 yr old boys. If I hand them a firearm and they don't perform a complete visual and manual inspection to confirm its current condition, they know they are in for a very long tirade about gun safety (and looking at time away from the XBox 360
).I constantly work with the boys trying to catch them off guard to see how they will react. My neighbor witnessed this at our house one time and thought I was nuts. I handed her son (same age as my oldest) one of the guns we had been working with. I then showed her that had her son picked up a loaded gun at a friends house she would now be planning his funeral. Her son now comes to my house for gun safety training on a regular basis.