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jester wrote:

Manfred wrote:Just curious if anyone knows, can you carry in these shows?

I see some people open carry at the shows and others carry pistol cases that I presume have a handgun concealed inside.

There is an inconsistently enforced rule (policy, not law) against loaded firearms at the shows.

When you arrive at the show there are a couple of off duty LEOs checking all weapons to make sure they are unloaded. They put a zip tie through the breach and out the barrel to identify that it is not loaded. The show rules are no loaeded weapons. It doesn't matter how you carry the weapon after it has been checked.

One thing I did notice about GRB is the show was moved down to a different hall than where they usually have it. Not a biggy but I found myself standing in line for the sports memorabilia (had to spell check that word) show until some guy saw me with my Glock case and said hey the gun show is at the other end. He was discrete and polite though.

Also I don't know if anyone else has this problem but I just get the feeling from I would say 95% of the vendors working the show that they are not helpful, unfriendly, and would rather just do buisness without speaking to you at all if that were possible. For example I was looking for a particular accessory for one of my guns and because I did not use the exact terminology the guy corrected me like a 5th grade in class and looked at me like I was an idiot. Excuse me master gunsmith please forgive my ignorance and I shall bow down to your all knowing intelligence of all things firearms.

Sorry for the rant I needed to get that off my chest.

bauerdj wrote:T Graham was busy all day.

Yeah I got there around 11:00 and he already had a couple hour back log. I ended walking around with my gun case in my hand for a couple hours. People were asking me hey you selling that Glock? cause they would see me walking by so many times.

Pretty much the same as usual. I went yesterday to get some work done to my Glock. Got extened mag and slide release installed for $27.00. Fairly good deals on ammo and optics if thats what your looking for but other than that I didn't see any really good deals.