One point you are missing is that 30.06 signage has absolutely NOTHING to do with loaded versus unloaded.olafpfj wrote:I still don't understand the problem people have with not being allowed to carry a LOADED gun at a gun show. ...
The biggest most important rule that was beat into my head when I got my NRA basic pistol cert. was that there is NO LIVE AMMO ANYWHERE IN THE ROOM...PERIOD!!!
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The 30.06 signs (leave the city owned building aspect out of it) force people to toe the line on a basic fundamental safety standard. When handling or displaying firearms anywhere other than a range, they should be unloaded and all ammo locked up.
The idiotic thing about 30.06 signs at a gun show is any licensee walking around with an UNLOADED handgun on their person is already violating the signage. (Whether the signage is enforceable or not is a separate issue).
Now, getting past the signage issue, my take is every firearm that will be handled at a gun show should be unloaded. However, a concealed self-defense handgun should never be handled in a gun show or anywhere else in ordinary public life unless it is used for self defense. Thus these guns should always be loaded when carried.
In general, it does not seem hard to distinguish between unloaded guns being brought to a gun show for swapping/selling versus loaded handguns being carried concealed for self defense.
